JPRS ID: 9902 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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~ 11 August 1981
Woridwide Re ort
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 37/81)
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11 August 1981
WORLDWIDE REPORT
~ NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 37/81)
CONTENTS
ASIA
BURMA
; Briefs
Heroin Seizure in Rangoon 1
INDONESIA
Brief s
Heroin Trafficker 5entenced 2
LAOS
a Cultivation of Opium Poppies Reported in Sayaboury Province
' (SIANG PASAS(?N, 11, 12 Jun 81) 3
Samet Canton
Sayaboury Province Hilltribes
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AYSIA
Bill Will Require Addicts To Register
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 11 Jun 81) 5
Prison Program for Rehabilitation of Addicts
- (Halinah Todd; NEW STRAITS TIMES, 11 Jun 81) G
Over 4y000 Arrested for Drug Offenses in Past 6 Months
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 9 Jul 81) 7
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Briefs
Seizure of Narcotics 8
, Opium Sentence 8
Opium Seizure ' 8
Treatment Center 8
PAY.ISTAN ~
Smuggling Method Has Ship's Crew Swallowing Heroin
(MORNING NEWS, 21 Jul 81) 9
Briefs
Smuggling Attempt to India 10
Heroin Caught at Airport . 10
Drugs in Suitcase � 10
Contraband Seized � 11
Eight Maunds of Charas Seized 11
THAILAND
Thai Official Comments on Narcotics Situation
(Phao Sarasin; Bangkok Domestic Service, 20 Jul 81)............ 12
'AFP' Reports on Thai Move Against Opium Warlord ~
(Jim Wolf; AFP, 30 Jul 81) 14
LATIN AMERICA
BOLIVIA
Commission Proposed To Fight World Drug Traffickers
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 12 Ju1~81) 17
Briefs
Cocaine Traffickers Arrested 18
Cocaine Base Seized 18
CHILE
- Peruvians Captured With Cocaine
(LA NACION, 7 Jul 81) 19
Briefs
Cocaine Bust 21
COLOMBIA
Sweden Tries To Extradite Trafficker
(EL TIEMPO, 2 Jul 81) 22
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Drug Seizures, Bribe Attempt Near Barranquilla
(Jacquelin Donado; EL TIEMPO, 8 Jul 81) 24
Kidnappings Allegedly Drug Related
(EL TIEMPO, 2 ~ul 81) 26
New Methaqualone Surge Discussed
(EL TIEMPO, 29 Jun 81) 28
- Methaqualone Replaces Marihuana, Cocaine
'Trip' With No Return, Guillermo Goelkel
Cocaine Seized at Eldorado
(EL ESPECTADOR, 14 Jun 81) 33
Clandestine Airfield Found in P1eta
(EL ESPECTADOR, 26 Jun 81) 34
iJriter Says Anti-Trafficking War Being Lost ~
(Cecilia Rodriguez Maya; EL SIGLO, 14 Jun 81) 35
Arrests, Marihuana Seizures in La Guajira
(EL ESPECTADOR, 8 Jul 81) 39
~ Briefs
Cocaine Seized at Eldorado 40
Marihuana Seized 40
Cocaine Seized in Bogota 40
~ MEXICO
Cocaine Smuggler Captured 41
~ PERU
Briefs
Drugs Transported in Rugs 42
Cocaine Shipment Discovered 42
Traffickers With Explosives Caught 42
VENEZUELA
Three Sentenced for Possession of Cocaine
(Victor ~lanuel Re:~noso; EL NACIONAL, 30 Jun 81) 43
Briefs
. Mandrax, Hash, Marihuana Found 46
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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
KENYA
Brief s
Bhang Arrests 4~
WEST EUROPE
AUSTRIA
Heroin Ring Smashed, Five Persons Arrested
(ARBEITER-ZEITUNG, 10 Jul 81) k8
- Brief s
Vienna Drug Scene 50
DENMARK
Justice Ministry Preparing New Drugs Law Legislation
(Jens Olaf Jersild; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 12 Jul 81) 51
FRANCE
Eleven Drug Traffickers A.rrested
(THE WOR:;ING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 10 Jul 81) 53
SWEDEN
Police Arrest Family Tied to Large Heroin Smuggling Gang
(Hakan Bergstrom; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 2 Jul 81) 54
TURKEY
. Death Penalty Demanded for Drug Smuggle-rs
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 10 Jul 81) 56
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BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZURE IN RA.NGOON--Rangflon, 11 July--Police Station Officer U Aye and
party of the Crime Preventi_on Squad of the Rangoon Division People's Police
Force seized ten gra~r.mes of heroin from Maung Aye Min (20) of 32n.d Street at
the corner of rierchant and 32nd Streets yesterday evening. According to the
information given by Maung Aye Min police searched the apartment at No 56 (top
floor) 30th Street. Tint Lwin alias Tawtha who was living at the house ab-
SCOIICIECI wiien the police came. Police sei.zed K800 believed to be proceeds from
the sale of heroin from Daw Yi (47), mother of Tint Lwin. Pabedan police are
_ taki.ng action agai,nst Maung Aye Piin and Daw Yi under Sections 6(~) (possession),
lOf,b) (sale), 11 (abetment) and 14(d) (failur.e to register for treatment) of
the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Text] [Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English
13 .Ju.ly 81 p 8)
v CSO: 5300/4958
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INDONESIA
BR IEF S
H~ROIN 1'R~'~rFICKER S~i~TTENCLD--During the trial at the East Jaka.rt3 Court of First
Instance on Saturday morning [30 May], the judge handed down a sentence of life
' imprisonment to Chang (Thio) Kim Soei alias Kasim Susanto alias Didi Kuswara (47
years old) accused of smuggling 5 kilograms of heroin to A~sterdam via the Halim
Perdanakusumah Airport. A fine of 10 million rupiah or 6 months imprisonment and
court costs were also imposed. In his decision, Sunu Wahadi, chief judge at the
trial, stated that 5 kilograms of heroin and 91,000 rupiah, which constituted thE
evidence, were confiscated for the state. A briefcase which was used by the
accu~ed to carry th2 heroin was destroyed. From responses to questioning during
the trial, the judge said Chang was convincingly proved to have participated in a
giot to smuggle 5 kilograms of heroin to Amsterdam via Hali.m Airport on 7. Ma.y 1980.
The heroin was hidden away and not reported to the res;~onsible authorities. Chang
� unlawfully violated three articles of La.w No 9/76 concerning narcotics of which hz
:lad been accused. (Excerpt] [Jakarta SINAR HARAPAN in Indonesi.an 30 May 8i pp 1,
� 12] 6804
CSO: 5300/8346
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CULTIVATION OF OPIUM POPPIES REPORTED IN SAYABOURY PROVINCE
Samet Canton
Vi~ntiane SIANG PASASON in Lao 11 Jun 81 p 2
[Excerpts] Samet Canton is populated by the Lao Theung nationality and the Lao
Mai ethnic group who were originally called Lao F~hai. The canton's northern
bou:ldary is with Hongsa District. On the souLhern border is Phieng District. To
~ the east lies Ban Mai and Ban Pong cantons. To the west is Thailand. The canton
is i~.; S:yaboury District and is approximately 70 kilometers distant from the town
of ~ayaboury itself.
Samet Canton comprises 19 villages with 928 families, located in the mountains.
The elevation is approximately 1,500 meters, with high peaks. In going from
village to village, it is necessary to climb sCeep elevations and there are hardly
50 square meters of level land.
Comrade S~eng of the canron administrative committee voiced the opiaion that the
people made their lit~ing primarily by cultivating dry field rice and corn with
' secondary crops of opium ~oppies and tea. They carry out livestock raising.
Sayaboury Province Hilltribes
Vientiane SIANG PASASON in Lao 12 J~in 81 p 3
(Excerpts] 5ayaboury Province has an area of 1.8,400 square kilometers. It
comprises 7 districts, 48 cantons and 513 village with a population of 188,361.
There are three major nationalities which are divided into a great many ethnic
groups. These are the Lao Loum groups such as the Black Thai, White Thiai Gnouan,
L~~e, Kalon. The Lao Theung include the Khmu and the Men. The Lao Soung include
r_he Striped Lao Soung [Mong], Black Lao Soung [Mong], White Lao Soung [Mong], the
' Yao, Haw.... Fcr the most psrt 99 percent of the people make their living by
f.ield and paddy cultivation.
. I~ you were to stop over in Sayaboiiry Province for a visit during this year's
monscon, along the mounCain tops, sides and foothills you would see the
rr:t:lci--ethnic population determinedly attending t~ production. Xou would see dry
t:eld rice and corn maturing. Then one might see the fields of manoic, sweet
pot~=~~o, taro, pineapple, cotton and opium poppies belonging to the Soung people
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~ along the beautiful mountains. In the plains that are known as the rice granary
of Sayaboury one can see the cooperati~~ized farmers bent to the ground preparing
- for plowing, harrowing and sowing. They are working so as to be ready for the
rains. It is certain that the harvest this year will exceed those of all previous
years.
CSO: ~300/4633
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~ILL ;JILL R :QL'IRE ~DDICTS TO ?.FGISTER
?Cuala Lumpur ti~1~ STR~ITS iI~~S in Englisn 11 Jun R1 p 2
~Te:ct;
,
WHEI+I a Bill now drafted That ls what fs at stake in
to make the registration the prison's rehabilitation
oi addiets compulsory pro~ramme.If it succeeds tt
con~~s into force, addicts wtll bolster the Prisons'
- who avoid registering case - especially put
will face a'ail ~entence ii against the dismal record ot
~ relapae from t6e Welfare
they a,re caught. There Mlnistry rehabllltation cen-
are an eatimated 400,004 tres.
addiCts ln Mala,ysla. Who The Prisons Department
will deal with the regis� already finalised plans
tered addict~" tifiill the for a rehabilltation centre 1n
already overcrowded Jelebu, Neg rf Sembilan,
prisons be overwhelmed which will hold 2,000 addicts.
_ with criminal add~cts" Tbe 200-acre site has been
There Is a bchlnd�the� viven by tbe Negri State
scenes tussie ~oing on, ~overnment and the com-
i sources indicate, between lex will be com leted b
the Minlstry oi li~elfare Ser� December neat ear. y
vices and the Prlsons De- ~~.~y e a t l 1 yb u l 1 d 1 t
artment over who should
ake the responsibillty for ourselves," Datuk Ibrahtm
rehabilitation when the Act said. The stte will be cleared
is passed. and built using prison
The Prisons Department labour with tec6nlcal ad�
is 6olding out tor the rfght to vice from the dKR. "We will
handle :sll addicts over 18, kave workshops, agricultur�
as well as all criminal ad� ai activitles, fish ponds, a
dicts; that is the vast ma� mini�tactory and a hlghway
. jQrit~�. The Wcltare ~ifnlstry restaurant:'
is quite happy~ to have criml� Datuk Ibrahlm does not
nal addicts gu to prison but anticfpate a more than 10
~ it wants the job ot re� per cent tncrease in addicts
habilitating all addlcts who going to prison even after
voluntarily register, the compulsory registration
ot addicts becomes law.
C::~: ~300/33~1
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;~i~L~YS IA
?RISQ.~ PROGR~~1 FOR REHA3ILIT.-`~TION CF :~DDICTS
:~uala Lumpur `IE'~i ST?2~iTS TI~~S in Engli~h 11 Jun 31 p L
[~rticle by cialinah Todd]
~ E:tcerpts ]
� � of the gener~tion that !s eoal ot the prisons pro-
THE ~asic r.eed af an addict, more likely to meet the ~.amme is change in be-
explains Zul with eager earnest- p=ob~em of drug addic� haviour.)
ness, " tion with cold showers, In November, 1979, Da-
~S love and a sense Of physical jerks and ex�
hortations to dfscipllne, tuk Ibrahim declded to
belon in se arate addtcts irom
"Addiet s are not Crlminals," add9 he hns lnittated the coun� non-addicte in the pris-
Mazlan. "They are sick people. Our putihimsel ~q a
eiy be ons - partiy to s~cop
duty is to give them $e!f awa: eness, to hfnd its need~. smuggfing of drugs .nto
help them expreas their feelings." H e h a s a 1 r e a d y iatea ciorrupt on ot war�
It you think these are ~nembers oi a chewea out a coupte ot aers. Aaaicts were kept
bleeding hearts society, you are wrong. unco-operative prison su� ~n dadah blocks and were
The settin - the re mented, often Perintendents and has not allowed to mingle
g ~ given his approvnl to the �,ith the other prlsoners.
brutal world, of Pudu Prison. cuunsellora' demands for
The speakers - hardened men with r i v a t e c o u n s e 111 n g For short�term pris-
P oners, thie has the un-
11VE t0 ~lght years' experiP~~ce as prison rooms. tortunate effect of spend�
warders. But whether or not a ing their days locked in
The "clients" - crir,~; ;tt! drug &d- Prison environment is their cells. With prisons
dieta in ail for usseasion of or traffick- taeat tor rehabilitation ~og9~y overcrowded -
p purposes is tmmaterial. pudu is designed for 600
lri in dadah. There are 2,210 addlcts in and holds 2,600 - there
~til and Mazlazl, like 67 other prlson prlson fur possesslon or W~ no way to make sepa�
counsellors, are now officers. pushing; many more are rate workshops and
They wec'e BeleCted "~ye had all-night mara- s~rving terms tor shop� p~aying fields for addtcts.
li[ting, huusebreaki g But all dadah pris-
from among warders thone where they learned ~
ol more than three to "own" their feelings. and the[t. oners serving sentences
ye81's' Cxperlence and Some yelled abuse at (Oi those imprlsoned uf more than six months ,
ut tht'ou h the noT- each other. Some crfed. on drug charges, 897 are H,Qre transferred to
p g ~iulays, 1,154 Chinese Sere7nban Prison, where
m tt 1 t h P e e- m o n t h Theae counselling o(- ~nd ~57 Indians. The larg� a �~~rk, physical training
Cadet offlCer' tralning. flcer~, who graduated est numbers are concer~� ~nd counselling pro-
Then they went on to a e t m o n t h, w 1 1! trated in Penung and ~Ammc ~vas begun for
six-month co~~rse in 9Pearhead a new pro- Seremban, tollow~ed by thein.
coune~:llltig under the ln� 81'amme wlthln the 30 Kuala Lumpur, Talptng Uf the ~f28 prisoners
structSon at two US ex� prlsons tn thc counlry lo and Alor Stnr). dlscharged trom Serem-
perts in the rehabilltatlon rehaDil;tcxte criminnl ad� T h e P r! s o n s D e� ban dering 1980, 55 are
of addicts ln a prison set- dlcts. partment has only two back ln prison. To state
ting� T h e y h~? v e b e e n cholces. It can do nothing that thls ls only a 14 per
"We taught ther~i coun� thcre," Dan E{uchar said. " and face thc certa.inty cent relnpse rate makes
selling skllls - under� "~'~~nt is more, as oi- ~hnt the nddict wil! go it soun~ good.
standing, sensltlvity, how flcers, they will have au� straight back on drugs But it includes only
to asseas and evaluate thority over the warders. �'hen he gets out and those who have been
the emotlonal needs and Some cor,ditions inslde sooner or ]nter end up in caaght and tound guilty
problema of the client," the dru; blocks they may prison n~ain. on drugs charges for a
Dan Kuchnr, one of the be able to chnnge." Or the Prisons cun try short six months after re-
American trainera, said. Perhaps the counsel� to cure the. addict. (Ad� lease. It doee not include
But they dld more than lore' greatest na~et is the dicts are tisually through those back !n prlson for
- learn the theory and stocky driving fib re of the physical w(thdc�awal other offences or those
master the jargon. "They D a t u k I b r a h t m b i n ~r~3on ti m IIi la~ces~ lace but have nc~t
been caudhh
went into group therapy hiohamad, Dtrector Gen- in the olice locku sPThe g
lhemselves." Dan sald. erai of Prisuns. Although P P�
CS(': ~3C0%�,351
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MALAYSIA
OVER 't?0 AF:RFSTED FOR DRUG OI~'FENSES IN PAST 6 MONTHS
Rangoon 'rEIE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 9 Jul 81 p 7
_ [Text] KUALA LUMPUR, 7,Ju~y--Malaysian police arrested
moYe than �,ooo geople for nai~corics o~Fences and seized
moce than Soo kilos (half a ton) of illegal drugs in th'e
firat half of this year, an official spokesman said today.
He said 4,052 people including 37 foreignors were
urested for drugs offences from January to June this
year, compared to s,63o arrests for similar crimes in the'
fisat half of tast ycar. �
About 5oz kilos of morphine, heroin, raw opium
and cannabis seizeci by police this ye~r was cight times
the amount confiscated in the same period last ycar, he
said.
Six foreigners and 59 Nlala}~sians were charged with
trafficking.and faced dcath or life imprisonment if found
guilty, the oHicial aaid. ,
He said six other t'oreigners faced jail sentences
tanging from thrce to i� years for "peddling" narcotics.
t~ndee Malaysian law, anyone found in possession
of mure than five grammes of an illegal drug is presumed
tcr be a peddlar while those caught with more; than ioo
grammes are deemod to be traffickers. NAB
f Reut~et ,
CSO: 5300/4958
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MALAYSIA
BRIBFS
SEI7.URE OF IJARCOTICS--kuala Lumpur police arrested 658 people and recovered about
100 lcg of dadah last month. The dadaiz seized included 62.2 kg of raw opium, 0.2
kg of ~repared opium, 1.9 kg of morphine, 4.4 kg of heroin and 30.2 kg of ganja.
The big~est seizure was ~n Apri1 30, when, following a tip from Sin~apore police,
50 kg of rato opium was recovered from a house off Jalan Kelang Lama. Seventeen
bundles of opium were hidden in a sewerage tank and eight other bundles in the
spare tyre of a P4ercedes Benz, On May 4 two police dogs sniffed out 3.5 kg of
heroin hidden in a nouse at Sungai :etani. On rlay 10 a raid on a house on Jalan
Ch~ca Kit produeed 9 kg of raca opium, 3 kg of prepared opium and half a kg of mor-
phine. On Nay 15 T^~i~C recovered 370 straws of heroin weighing 0.2 lcg from two
men on a motorcycle at Kua1a Kedah, [Kuala Lumpur PIEW STRAIiS TI1~S in ~nglish
2 Jun 81 p 3]
OPIUM S~PdTEP;CE--Lim Kim nua, alias Lim Kim Kwan, 45, a medicine-shop owner,was sen-
tenced to 3-1/2 years in ,jail and 3 strok_es of the rattan by tl-,e Kuala Lumpur High
Court today. Lim pleaded guilty to possessin~ the drugs at his shop on Jalan Besar,
PulaL Ketam on January 4, 1930. Police raided the shop after receiving a tip and
found the opium in a plastic ba~. [Kuala Lumpur itEW STRAITS TI~S in English
2 Jun 81 p 19]
OPtU~I SEIZliRE--Customs officers seized 42 lbs of raw opium valued at M$ 60,000 last
nig~t after laying an ambush in the Sungai Siput area near the Kuala Perlis river
mouth. The persons involved managed to escape as there are many routes lea~ing out
of the s~vampy area. Customs Director. Ahmad Kamili said da~lah smuggling had increas-
ed along the Kuala Perlis and ~Cua1a Kedah coa~ts after the border *vas fenced at
Padan~; Besar.. The Customs ~e~artment has bought two new sneedboats and increased
the sea patrols of. the coastline. He added that the department would provide sub-
stantial rewarcls for tios from the public. [Kuala Lumpur NEW SLTriDAY TIMES in Eng-
.
lish 7 Jun 81 p 6) ' -
= T't~EAT`~NT C:~+TEt;--hiiri General Hospital in Sarawak has established an examination
and treatment cenCer for drug addicts. Addicts needing further treatment will be
sent to the Kuching Rehabilitation Center. ICuchir.~ has the highest, and Miri the
second highest, incidenr_e of drug abuse in Sarawak. There are now about 80 drug
addicts in Miri, ranging from 17 to 30 years of age. riost of the addicts, and most
of the pushers, are Chinese. There has been aa increase in the use of heroin, a
drug that began to flow onto the market only in the last 4 years. [iCuala Belait
BOt2NL0 BULL~TT:t Ln ~,nglish b Jun 81 p 44 ]
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PAKISTAN
SrNGGLlt3G T�IETHOD HAS SHIP' S CREW SWALLOWING HEROIN
Karachi MORNING NEWS in English 21 Jul 81 p 5
[Text] Onc o! the members oi a~ane, in the history oi the
genQ oi smugglers, wluch uasd city, which was found dumped
to omuQgle heroin out o! tha sea !n containera
country with a novel and ]atest recently.
modus operanfli, was hauled up ~e IIat oi Dawood Jat was
by the C~i4 pollce yeaterday. raided, by the police a few
T}:e accused was identified an �,erks ~go, in Gulshan-e-Iqbat
Moula Jat, a Qang taember ot area. Two walkie-talkie sets
Dawood Jat aad halE Rilo oi ~d charas were oeized from
heroin was ~e9zed from hins. there but he bad fled.
Tt?e reports ~sald that tlae
C~~r after yackiug 3~eroin into
condoma used to pass them oa
to the crew membere o!' ~ ehip,
who uaed to swallow them aad
follow it with 3~onsy l~dore the
saillng o! the ship. Later they
used to purae it ou~ at thz
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BRIEFS
SMUGGLING ATTEMPT TO INDIA--Huge quantity of morphine powder worth over rupees
one crore in international market was seized by the Customs Intelligence Staff
from Wagah borders on rionday. Two Afghan nationals, Jan Mohammad and Mohammad
Din, were arrested on charge of smuggling. The Customs staff received secret
information that a huge quantity of morphine powder had been purchased and was
likely to be transported to Lahore for smuggling to India via Wagah border.
Consequently, a vigilance party comprising senior Customs officials was formed
by the Assistant Collector, Mr S.M. Arif. As the two smugglers arrived at the
Check Post, their baggages were searched and 21,180 gram morphine powder con-
cealed in the false bottom of a suitcase was recovered. [Te}:t] [Lahore THE
PAKISTAN TIMES in English 7 Jul 81 p 3]
HEROIN CAUGHT AT AIRPORT--A London-bound Pakistani passenger was hauled up at
the Karachi Airport following discovery oF one kilo heroin in his briefcase by
the Drug Enforcement Cell Officers yesterday. The passenger, Mohai::mad Akbar
was to board an Air France plane for London via Paris when the Customs hounds
on a tip-off, searched his briefcase and discovered fine heroin powder concealed
in the false botr_om of the case. In yet another seizure of heroin another pas-
senger Mohammad Ejaz Khan was nabbed with 120 grams of heroin cleverly concealed
in the "Snuff Box" kept in a briefcase. The accused Ejaz was proceeding to Hong
Kong by a Lufthansa flight when the seizure took place on a suspicicn by the
hounds of Customs Drug Cell. Further investigations are continuing. [Text]
[Karachi DAWN in English 13 Jul 81 p 7]
DRUGS IN SUITCASE--Heroin worth Rs 40 lakh was seized by the Drug Enforcement
Cell of the Pakistan Customs at Karachi Airport from the possession of a passen-
ger destined to leave for Hong Kong on a foreign airliner on Friday. The con-
traband drug was very cleverly concealed in ttie false bottom of the suitcase of
the passenger.who was identified as Mahmood Akbar. He has been arrested on char
charges of smuggling heroin. He l~ad purchased the contraband drug from Lahore.
Later, investigations revealed that the heroin is being prepared from the illi-
cit culrivation of opium in the tribal areas at the instance of the international
narcotic dealers. According to reliable sources, besides German chemists, Iran-
ian chemists, who fled from their country after the revolution, have also been
employed in the clandestine laboratories in the tribal areas for preparing
heroin from the illicit production of opium. It is understood that these
chemists are highly qualified and are experts in extracting heroin from the
opium. It may be mentioned that heroin has become very popular among the users
in the tdestern countries and America. [Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English
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CONTR~ANU SEIZ~D--~'. bagful of contraband charas, 15 crates of alcohol, 250
bottles of foreign liquor, 144 injections of morphine and other intoxicant drugs
~aare recovered when a police party headed by a magistrate raided the notorious
~nultipurpose den in north Karachi last night. The gambling-cum-narcotic den was
being run by one Saifur Rehman. The police have also arrested 15 persons while
gambling in rhe same premises. Manager of the den Badshah Khan was arrested by
the police and a loaded revolver was recovered from his possession. [Excerpt]
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~ EIGHT MAUNDS OF CHARAS SEIZED--The Anti-burglary staff of the Civil Lines Division
yesterday reported seizure of eight maunds of charas ~vorth about Rs 3 million in
the s*reet market of addicts abroad. They also reported arrest of. one Niaz Akbar
from a Mahmoodabad house where it was dumped a~aaiting despatch to the port for
its onward josrney abroad. The Excise staff of the East Division also claimed to
have seized 45 kilograms of super-quality charas from a Suzuki Van (824-771). Ac-
cused Abdul Ghafar who had brought the contraband from NWFP was trying to smuggle
out the same abroad when the Excise police was alerted. Accordingly, a trap was
]_aid ~�men Ghafar came in the van to deliver it to a fake buyer. Further investiga-
tions are :i_n progreas. (Text) [Karachi DAG7N in English 19 Jul 81 p 8]
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THAI OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON NARCOTICS SITUATION
BK200828 Bangkok Domestic Service In Thai 0000 GMT 20 Jul 81
[Interview given by police Major General Phao Sarasin, Secretary General of the
Comnanir.tee for Prevention on Suppression of Narcotics, to unidentified
newsman--date and place not given.]
[QL'ESTIONj How is the current narcotics situation?
[ANSWf R] During the cuJ.tivation season which jusr_ ended about 50 tons of opium
were Froduced in Thailand as compared with I4 tons in 1980 and 12 tons in 1979.
The increased production is attributed to good weather and ~ big increase in the
price of opium. About 400 tons of opium were produced in Burma during the 1980
cultivation season and about 5 tons in Laos during the latest season.
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About h31f of the local opium production is used for consumption by the hill
tribes geople in the north, while the remainder is destined for heroin
producti~n. As you may already know, heroin production fact.ories are located
ouLside Thailand. P.s far as we know, about 15 factories are located in Burma near
the Thai b~rder. Most of the heroin produced in Burma is brought to Thailand.
The remainder goes to Burmese addicts and is for export.
Good Thai highways facilitate transportation through Thailand from the north.
- Smuggling of heroin into Thailand is at its peak during this time of the year, as
witnessed by the seizure of several large shipments of heroin recently. The
heroin wholesalers are now buying at much greater risk. This, and the abundance
of narcotics have brought down the price of narcotics.
Most of the opium addicts are concentrated in the north and the northeast, while
the greatest numbers of heroin addicts are in Bangkok and in Hat Ysi. The number
of addicts seeking treatment in the various health facilities remains about the
same as last year. The scarcity and the high price of heroin last year caused
many addicts to turn to inhalation of other drugs, such as thinner.
[QUESTION] Can you comment on the report that more of our youths have become drug
addicts?
[A~;S',~IEIt] '~tie officials who have conducted research into this matter have said
thac the increa~e in the number of young dru~ addicts has been minimal. Our
nreventive measures have concentrated on youths, both in and out of school. I do
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not believe our youth addicts have increased in number. The number receiving
treatrnent i.n l~ospitals has decreased as a matter of fact.
On the suppression side, my committee is studying Malaysian and Singapore
narcotics laws. We have good anti-narcotics cooper~tion with Malaysia. Malaysian
narcotics law is very severe, forcing narcotics traffickers to flee to our
country. Thailand should have a law like Malaysia to deal with narcotics
violations. Malaysia includes narcotics offenses under the national security law
which empowers the authorities to detain for 2 years any person regarded as a
threat to national security. Malaysia regards narcotics as its foremost enemy,
more so than the communists. It regards narcotics traffickers as dangerous to its
security and uses its national security law to detain them for 2 years at a time.
I talked to several of our jurists. They believed wrongly that narcotics
traffickers in our country can be detained under the hooligan law. Our
suppression officials cannot make any arbitrary arrest of traffickers, but have to
seek permission from higher authorities. A narcotics trafficking movement
involves many people. If we are going to make an arrest, we want to be able to
arrest the entire movement, not just few members. This is why we want a law which
will enable us to arrest the financiers of the movement.
We are also trying to draft a law which will legalize confiscation of traffickers'
assets. Our present law does not allow such conf.iscation. We are studying
Australian law wt~ich allows confiscation of traffickers' financial assets.
Arrested traffickers must provide a satisfactory account of their assets within 1
month or have them confiscated. I like that law.
The United States has a similar law which allows the confiscated assets to be used
in anti-narcotics efforts. I heard that only 6 months after implementation of the
law, some $100 miLtion was confiscated. I feel that we should be able to enact a
similar 1aw in Thsilar.d. We witl have to explain benefits of such a law to our
lawmakers. Our present law does not give us the power to arrest financiers of the
narcotics movements, against whom it is very difficult to obtain sufficient
evidence. This has been an important obstacle to our suppression efforts. It
- will help us a greaC deal if we could act against the financiers. For example,
kraffickers in Malaysia and Singapore have fled to Thaitand because of the stiff
narcotics law in their countries.
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! BK300702 Hong Kong AFP in English 0620 GMT 30 Jul 81
[By Jim Wolf]
(Text] Bangkok 30 Jul ~AFP) Narcotics police are cl~~sing in on Golden Triangle
opium kingpin Chang Chi-Fu believed to be the world's biggest drug trafficker, top
narcotics officials report.
In a series of exclusive interviews, senior Thai officials and narcotics attaches
from Western embassies disclosed that an all-out effort will soon be launched to
capture the ethnic Shan warlord, estimated to control 70 per cent of the border
opium trade.
We expect the Thais to bag him in the very near future, said Robert De Fauw,
Bangkok-based Regional Director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
I The arrest of the 48 year old Mr Big would at least temporarily disrupt the flow
c` aarcotics from the notorious Golden Triangle where Burma Thailand and Laos
meet.
Hugh new supplies of high-grade heroin, the scourge of the concrete jungle, have
already begun to reach international markets in the wake of a bumper
600-met;ic-ton opium crop in the region last year.
It Giould be a very important step forward. Chang Chi-Fu is enemy number one, said
Si:eve Polden, chief representative here of the Australian federal police.
~r De Fauw whose organization helps fight the drug problem at its root declined to
spell out details of the attach plan which kno~ledgeable sources have previously
said would probably require a military operarion, not a simple police action.
Mr De Fauw left here today for the northern Thai capital of Chiang Mai, market
center of the golden triangle, together with General Pow Sarasin, chief of the
Thai Office of the Narcotics Control Board.
General Pow told AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE before leaving that he would make an
important announcPment next week about Chang Chi-Fu who is also known as Khun Sa.
Genaral Pow said he had hosted a dinner for Burmese officiala to discuss the
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_ Burma's cooperation is be?ieved essential for the capture of Chang Chi-Eu who
~ heads an armed band of perhaps 3,000 mercenaries knows as the Shan United Army
(SUA).
Base~ in the fortified village of Ban Min Taek a few kilometers inside Thai
territory, he is said to have carved out nearly impregnable fiefdom for himself on
the rugged Thai-Burmese border.
Thai authorities report that he slides back and forth across the remote jungled
frontier to avoid arrest. The srea is a no-man's land traditionally outside the
control of the central governments.
The ability to launch a joint operation would amount to a significant step fo:�ward
in Thai-Burmese relations long strained by distrust over the practice of giving
asylum to each others ethnic minority insurgents.
Mr de Fauw of the DEA said he hoped the move againat C;hang Chi-Fu would be a joint
cooperative effort between Thailand and Burma. An ofFicial from another Western
embassy said he thought the Burmeae would at least allow hot pursuit in a bid to
neutralize the warlord.
One unconfirmed report said the decision to launch the operation followed the
execution by Chang Chi-Fu of two suspected informers.
Thailand issued a warrant for Chang Chi-Fu's arrest on July 17, 1980, but it
mentioned only offenses associated with leading an armed band in Thailand, not
murder or narcotics.
General Pow told interviewers earlier this year he lacked hard evidence for a
court of Chang Chi-Fu's involvement in narcr~tics trafficking.
Thailand has no conspiracy laws which means in effect that narcotics would have to
- found on him to obtain a conviction.
But new evidence against Chang Chi-Fu might have been the decisive factor analysts
said. General Pow previously proposed to the Thai government that a reward of
some $25,000 be posted for information leading to his capture.
If the reward were offered, General Pow was quoted as saying, he won't sleep
peacefully.
' But an An:erican source said media attention had finally prompted the Thais to
decide to move. He said Chang Chi-Fu's high-profile had become a major
embarrassment.
It is not immediately clear what kind of action would be taken. Mr. de Fauw who
leaves Thailand on Tuesday sEter a three-year atint, said it would take a sizeable
force to immobilize the warlord.
Chang Chi-Fu's band the Shan United Army is believed to be equipped with M-16
rifles, M-79 grenade launchers and recoiltess rifles. Some border watchers
believe it will take a regimental-scale operation to put him out of action.
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The looser in the 19b7 opium war against remnants of the exiled Chinese Kuomintang
Army, Chang Chi-Fu gradually reasserted himself over the years.
~ Thai officials say he now controls sll facets of the border trade from the mule
caravans bringing raw opium from the rugged hills of northern Burma to the 9 to 15
~ illicit refineries churning it into heroin on the frontier at any given time.
' He is also believed to hold sway in the lucrative black market for gems and
antiqaes, a position that sorne experts say he maintained until now because of
influential friends in Bangkok.
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COMMISSION PROPOSED TO FIGHT WORLD DRUG TRAFFICKERS
Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 12 Jul 81 p 6
[Text] GNNEVA IO
, July-Rolivia called Frida}~ f~r thc
creation of an inteniationa! commission tu fibht world
narcotics traffickers and a two-billion-dollar emergcncy
fund to aid drug'victims.
Boli~~ia said a world conference should also be con-
vened to adopt and coordinate a glnbal campaign against
the illicit narcotics trade.
Ambassador Dan Augustin Saavedra ~~eise to(d
the ti~ F,conomic and Social Council (ECOSUC) that
his country like many others needs urgent financial aid
in helping peasant, ro grow different crops.
The coca le:~f, the base of cocaine, is "a lamentaUln
but economic re;ality" for Bolivian peasants, he said, but
the Government needs assistance in carrying out crop
substitution.
~ Saavcdra ~1'eise said the estimated 3o-hillion-dollar
annual illicit traffic in cocainc is far lar~;cr than Boli~�ia'y
gross natiunal product.-~'~'.~B/UPI
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
- COCAINE TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--The Bolivian investigations police have arrested
(Estanislao Quispe rlamani) and (Agustin Machuca Sainz) who tried to smuggle 4.27
kg of cocaine base through the checkpoint of Chuquiaguillo. The cocaine has been
confiscated and the peddlers have been placed at the disposal of the National
Antidrug Council. [PY291709 La Paz Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 1130 GMT
27 Jul 81]
COCAINE BASE SEIZED--The local branch of investigations police of Montero, Santa
Cruz Department, on Tuesday arrested (Teodoro Jose Oysaga) who was carrying 600
grams of cocaine base, and placed him at the disposal of the National Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs Department in Santa Cruz. [PY291709 La Paz Radio Illimani
Network in Spanish 1130 GMT 24 Jul 81]
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PERUVIAAIS ~APTURED WITH COCAINE
Santiago LA NACION in Spanish 7 Jul 81 p 10 A
[Text] After intense activity, officers of the OS-7 Carabineros of the city of
Arica arrested two Peruvian drug traffickers and were able to confiscate 1.5 kg c~f
cocaine worth $1.2 million on the international market.
The arrest of the drug traffickers, who were identified as Bonifacia Huanca Santos
and Gloria P~arin Pauro Huanca, 40 and 24 years-of-age respectively, took place at
2145 hours on Sunday in the Ibanez park of Arica as the women attempted to make
contacts i.n order to sell the drug.
Long Investigation
The investigations were handled by officers of the First Drug Control Section of the
OS-7 Department of Carabineros, which had been checking a11 the movements of the two
criminals since the end of last month when the two women entered Chilean territory
~ for the first time for the purpose of establishing contacts which would allow
them--on a second trip--to bring in the cocaine and turn it over ~o Chilean traffickers
~~aho would complete the process of transforming it into the hydrochloride.
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Bonifacia Huanca resided in Manzana Seis, Lote 27, in the community of Pueblo Joven
Aliaaza in Tacna whereas her accomplice, Gloria Marin, lived in Manzana 33 Lote 22,
in the community of Agrupacion in the same Peruvian city.
The police followed the movments of the Peruvian women while they were in Arica and
when they returned with the shipn?ent of cocaine sulfate they kept them under contin-
' uous surveillance until they were able to arrest them in the Ibanez park as they
~ were carrying the six paclcages of the coveted drug.
, Million Dollar Shipment
The six packages of coca base (cocaine sufate) found in the clothing of the two
Peruvian ~aomen weighed a total of 1500 gm which have a commercial value of $1.2
million in Florida, United States, which is considered the point of entry to the
North American and European markets.
Accurding to records in the po~session of the OS-7 investigators, the ob,jective of
these two traffickers was to bring the cocaine shipment into Chilean terriCory in
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order to offer it to local criminals who would converC it to hydrochloride of a
high degree of purity.
This maneuver of having the drug pass through Chil~ is due to the lack of experte
in Peru and Bolivia who are capable of refining the coca base and converting it
into the hydrochloride which is the substance which is finally transported to world
markets.
The drug seized by the OA-7 carabineros was in the semiprocessed stage since pre-
viously Peruvian experts from the city of Tacna had processed the coca leaves
leaving them in a highly pure sulfate stage, approximately 93 percent pure.
The 1.5 kg of cocaine was transferred by OS-7 officials to the Arica Institute of
Public Health where--by court order--it was incinerated.
Yesterday morning the traffickers were placed under the jurisdiction of the Judge
of the First Criminal Court of Arica along with File No 255 of the First Carabinero
Commissariat of Arica, in which city the two women will remain permanently until
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CHILE
BRIEFS
COCAINE BUST--Thirty-two million pesos worth of cocaine has been seized by police
in Iquique and (Mario Bautista Branez Platero), 38, has beer. arrested carrying
1/2 kh of cocaine sulphate. [PY291709 Santiago Chile Domestic Service in Spanish
1730 GMT 28 Jul 81]
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~ [Text] Yesterday, the Swedish Government, through its embassy in Bogota, asked the
, Colombian authorities to extradite one of that counCry's nationalized citizens,
~ who is char~ed with drug trafficking and assaults against public officials.
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~ Bogota as he was preparing to leave the country for Europe.
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This man, who was born on 14 July 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the son of
~ Harriet Soderlund. INTERPOL in Stockholm issued an arrest warrant for this man for
illicit drug trafficking, on the basis of the sentence issued by the Stenungsund
Court of First Instance on 22 September 1980.
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'Che international drug trafficker was arrested when he arrived in Colombia from
Cali, where he had stayed for several months as an undocumented person, and was
getting ready to travel to Paris.
According to the information sent by INTERPOL, Soderlund was sentenced in Sweden
in 1974 and was fined and placed under house arr~st and surveillance.
According to a spokesman for the Colombian Foreign Ministry, the extradition request
will be honored once all of the legal requirements have been met. In the meantime,
the foreigner will be detained in DAS [Administrative Department of Security]
facilities.
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Bo,;ota rL 'CIF~IPO ~n Spanish 8 Jul 81 p 7-B
[!~rticle by ,Jacquelin Donado)
[Text] Barranquiila, 7 Jul--The antinarcotics group of the Atlantico Police made
a successful strike against a ring of drug tra�fickers in this city today, seized
a shipment of hallucinogenic pills worth over 100 million pesos and arrested the
si:~ principal members of the ring, all of whom are known mafia "capos."
The dr:.ig scizure took place in an elegant suburb in the northern part of this city
at a residence owned by Jesus Maria Gomez Zapata, better known by the nickname
of "Pollo [Chicken] Gomez," the proprietor of a chemical distribution firm--JHOA--
and by his father, David Gomez Villadiego, the owner of a pharmaceutical laboratory,
I1vSOPHARP'[A, who was also arrested.
The other principal members of the ring were identified as Nemesio Nader Nader, a
~ native of Ayapel; Carlos Guillermo Cervantes Jimeno; Jose Abelardo Aristizabal
Zuluaga, of :~iedellin; and I.uis Fernandez Caselles, of Barranquilla.
According to official reports, the entire organization was arrested while the
authorities were conducting a search of the home of "Pollo Gomez" and found a total
of 276,000 Jumbo 714 pills in 36 plastic bags packed in a cardboard box ready for
distribution abroad and within the country.
Bribery Attempt
The officers who carried out the operation said that the six prisoners had
attempted to bribe the patrol with the sum of 600,000 pesos in cash in exchange
for their freedom.
ln addit~on to the ready-for-sale pills, the police confiscated equipment for the
processing of paste and methaqualone for the manufacture of Jumbo or Rorer 714
pi11s, cash and checks worth over 500 million pesos.
It was learried that these bank documents will be used to pursue serious leads, as
it- appears that ttiey were all issued by persons linked with the illicit business.
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It should be noted that less than 15 days ago a seizure of inethaqualone was made
in this city, raw material which is used for the manufacture of these hallucino-
genic pills. The authorities are seeking a connection between the two seizures,
as this seems to be the most important ring of gangsters operating in this section
of the country.
At present, the six prisoners are being held in F-2 prisons. The four motor
vehicles confiscated, including three jeeps and one Mustang, are being held in
police parking lots. The drugs and equipment will be destroyed in a few days.
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' KIDNAPPINGS ALLEGEDLY DRUG RELATED
; Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 2 Jul 81 p 2-A
- [Text] Three young girls, the daughters of Veronica Rivers, the controversial
woman who was charged with smuggling and drug trafficking a few years ago, were
kidnapped in Bogota about 20 days ago. The perpetrators of the crime are demanding
a ransom of 50 million pesos.
During this same spectacular incident, the family's private chauffeur and the motor
vehf,cle in which the victuns were traveling were seized.
This unusual quadruple kidnapping, the first of such magnitude reported in Coloinbia,
took place at 0730 hours early in June at the point where Calle 100 meets the
Superhighway North.
Reports on this case, which have been in the hands of EL TIEMPO's judicial staff
for several days, indicate that the three young girls were on their way to school,
north of Bogota, in a luxury van driven by a private chauffeur.
At a given moment, the van was immobilized by two vehicles, which stationed them-
selves in front of and behind the van to prevent any escape attempt.
Scveral individuals armed with submachine guns immediutely got ouL uf the kidnappers'
vehicles and in a few seconds immobilized the four persons, under threats of death.
One oE the crininals got behind the wheel of the Rivera family van, while the other
three guarded ttie kidnap victims. The vehcile, driven by one of the criminals,
disuppeared from the scene, escorted by the other two motor vehicles, one in front
ancl one behind.
;s i.t rtirned out, rigl~t after the kidnapping Veronica Rivera began to receive
r_1-,;~e.~~ter.ing calls during i:~tiich it was announced that if the 50 million pesos were
not p