JPRS ID: 10333 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/10333
18 February 1982
Worldwide Re ort
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~ NARC~TiCS AND DANGEROUS DRUG~
(FOUO 9/82)
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JPRS L/10333
18 February 1982
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 9/82)
I,ONTENTS
ASIA
INDONESIA
Marihuana ComQnerce in A~eh
(TEMPO, 28 Nov 81) 1
INDONESIA
Br iefs
Narcotics Rehabilitation Center 3
Marihuana Seized in 1981 3
LAOS '
Illegal Export of Heroin Gives Regime Hard Currency
(Bertil Lintner; INFORMATION, 17 Nov 81) 4
NEW ZEALAND
Nation's Largest Opium Haul on Record Hidden Under House
(THE NDW ZEALAND HERALD, 17 Dec 81) 8
PAKISTAN
Briefs
Harsh Punishment for Trafficking 9
Heroin Seized at Karachi Airport 9
PHILIPPINES
- Briefs
_ Antidrugs Campaign 10
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1'V/\ VL'1'1V.I.~W VvU Vata~�
SRI LANKA ~
Briefs
Ganja Plants Seized' 11
TAIWAN
~ Briefs
~ Drug Seizure I2
THAILAND
Drug Laws Called Ineffective: Kingpins Escape Prosecution
~ (SIAM RAT SAPPADA WICHAN, 20 Dec ffi) 13
Incentives for Tribesmen To Plant Poppies Noted
(Wannawithit; SIAM RAT, 14 Dec 81) 17
VIETNAM
C~:ring Drug Addicts in Ho Chi Minh City
_ (Truong Thin; VIE7.'NAM COURIER, Nov 81) 22
;,ATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Drug Traffic Discovered 25
BERMUDA
Narcotics Squad on Trail of Drug Shipment From London
(THE ROYAL GAZETTE, 24 Dec 81) 26
BOLIVIA
Briefs
Cocaine Produced in 1982 27
Minister on Cocaine, Terrorism 27
BRAZIL
_ Colombian Mafia Using Indians To Work Coca Plantations
_ (Jose Meirelles Passos; ISTOE, 13 Jan 8~)......o........... 28
Greatest Seizure of Cocaine Made in Sao Paulo
(O GIABO, 20 Jan 82) 33
Major Marih~ana Ring Linked With Organized Crime in South
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, 26 Dec 81) 34
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Two Foreigners Arrested Witli I~D in t3al~i.~
(O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO, 19 Jan 82) 36
Briefs
Addiction Rise in Bauru 37
French Arrest Trafficking Su~pect 37
COI,OMB IA
Three Arrested in Bogota for Cocaine Trafficking
(EL TIEMPO, 8 Jan 82) 38
CUBti
Foreign Ministry Issues Statement cxi Drugs
(PRFLA, 28 ~Tan 82) 39
- PERU
Increased Drug Consumption in Lima Investigated
(EL CONIERCIO, 30 Dec 81) 41
Justice Minister Condenns Foreign Inm~tes' Hunger Strike
(EL COMERCIO, 5 Jan 82) 44
Briefs
PIP Narcotics' Operations 45
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
EGYPT
Large Cocaine Haul Made at Airport
(AL-AKHBAR, 4 De~ 81) 46
Big Cache of Drugs, Valuables Unearthed in al-Ma'adi
_ (AL-AKHBAR, 12 Dec 81) 47
Big Drug Transaction Thwarted
(AL-AHRAM, 26 Dec 81) 49
I~nense Valume of Dr~gs, Pills Seized
- (Husayn Ghanim; AL-AHRAM, 27 Dec 81) 51
Massive Narcotics Stash iJnearthed
(Husayn Ghanim; AL-AHRAM, 30 Dec 81) 53
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_ Big North Coast Drug Haul Described
(Faruq al-Shadhili, Munir al-Masiri; AL-AKHBAR, 12 Dec 54
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- NUK UM1'l,l.llU. UJ~ ULVLI
IRAN �
Hundreds of Kilograms of Heroin, Opium Reported Seized
(KEYHAN, 17 Jan 82) 56
Briefs
Tehran Narcotics Haul 57
Fars Drug Seizure 57
- Kashan Drug Seizure 57
Khoramabad Drug Seizure 57
Mashhad, Zahedan Heroin Hauls 5~
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Largest Drug Raid in Country's History Detailed
(Mahir al-Riyali; AL-KHALIJ, 22 Dec 81) 58
- WEST EUROPE
DENMARK
Police Drug Patrol Chief: Christiania To Have Long Impact
- (Anders Wiig; BERLINGSKE TIDENDc, 3 Dec 81) 60
Greenland Youth Hard Hit by Drugs in Copenhagen 'Free City'
(Kirsten Sorrig; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 21 Jan ffij 62
Briefs
International Hashis;l Smuggling G~ng Broken 63
- ~hristiania Drug Seiaures 63
Drug Trading 64
Drug Raid in Christiania 64
DENMARK/ GREEtTLAPID
Briefs
Hashish, Marihuana Trafficking 65
FRANCE
Briefs
- Cusi:oms 'Smash' Smuggling Network 66
Aashish Seized at Orly Airport 66
Israeti Heroin Dealers Arrested 66
GREECE
Athens, Piraeus llrug Ring Members Arrested
(TO VIMA, 12 Jan 82) B7
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Major Drug Dealer Sought
_ (mA NEA, 11 Jan 82)......... 69
NORWAY
. Harshest-Ever Sentence HandPd Down in Heroin Case
(ARBEIDERBLADED, 5 Dec '$1.) 70
Briefs
'Crisis Phones' for Abusers 72
SWEDEN
Customs Official Says Agency Unable To ContLOl Drugs Flaw
(Sune Olofson; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 28 Dec 81) 73
Briefs
~ Custans ~Drugs Funds Increased 76
Treatment Centers' Funds Increased 76
Family Smuggled He.:,,in From Turkey 76
TURKEY
- Armenian Terrorists Allegedly Shift to Gold Smuggling
(Mehmet Balikcior,lu; TERCUMAN, 17, 21 Jan 82) 77
Istanbul Operation
Anatolia Operation
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INDONESIA
MARIHUANA COMMERCE IN ACEH ,
Jakarta TEMPO in Indonesian 28 Nov 81 p 66
~ [Excerpts] Narcotics activity has intensified, particularly in large cities like
Jak~rta and Surabaya, In those two locations, police have seized 7 kilograms of
dry marihuana. Police in Aceh, the source of illegal drugs, have had difficulty
in eliminating marihuana, because it is hidden by being grown with other crops.
Police successes this month, which did not come easily, indicated the difficulty
in breaking the narcotics ring in Indonesia. Police Major Sumarsono, commander
of the Surabaya Detective Unit, acknowledge~ the difficulty in dealing with the
network. "Although the suspects readily admitted their guilt, they did not di-
vulge the names of others," he noted. Al1 five narcotics suspects atrested in
Surabaya this year have remained silent about accomplices.
~.11 narcotics traffickers in large cities use a closed network. "Their organiza-
tion is reall.y strong, and closed," said Hindarto, chief of the Metropolitan
Jakarta Detective Unit. Narcotics abuse is highest in the Jakarta area, account-
ing for 1,358 of the 2,877 cases throughout Indonesia for the period 1974-1980.
The primary drug in those cases is marihuana.
Narcotics traffickers shrewdly grow marihuana on farms in Southeast Aceh for
distribution throughout Indonesia, and abroad. Li.eutenant Colonel Sudarmadji,
chief of detectives for Banda Aceh, said that the marihuana is harvested by peo-
ple in Rikib Gaib and Terangan Regencies, which border on North Sumatra.
Marihuana is then transported to Kutacane, and then to Medan. If they fear police
interception, they use an alternate route, involving 5 days journey by foot.
Mari.huana goes from Blang Pidie in South Aceh to Sibolga or Banda Aceh for fur-
ther distribution.
The routes are changed constantly. If the traffickers are worried, they send
marihuana in r~lays, under various disguises. Some people are specially paid to
- bring marihuaria on long journeys through the hills to North Sumatra. Lepers,
who are not under suspicion, and are feared, are paid to bring marihuana through
_ areas under police supervision. Sudarmadji, himsel.f, once arrested a leper bring-
� ing many kilograms of marihuana for smuggling to Malaysia via small islands in
Aceh.
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The l~otential profits for illegal marihuana comm~:rce are breathtaking. A kllu~;ran?
of dry marihuana is worth 3,000 rupiahs in Aceh, but the price leaps to 75,000
rupiahs in Medan, and 100,000 rupiahs and up in Jakarta, and more, abroad. Because
~ of that, Aceh is known to Interpol as a pri~e center for narcotics activity in the
southern area, like the Golden Triangle in Thailand.
Eradicating that traffic, according to Sudarmadji, is d~fficult, because the loca-
tions are hard to reach, requiring a journey of several days by foot. Marihuana
plots are dispersed, and grown in tobacco fields, making them hard to detect.
Sudarmadji, himself, once burned a marihuana plot of 3 hectares. "That was one
o~ dozens in the area," he said.
Sudarmadji proposes a large-scale eradication operation, with sufficient personnel
and funds. In addition, the local population must be educated not to grow illegal
crops again.
_ The Aceh Police Regional Command does not fiave sufficient means for such a task.
Only a few men in the command are narcotics personnel, according to a source.
"They have not been given the skills or training to carry out their work," he
noted.
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INDONESIA
- BRIEFS
NARCOTICS REHABILITATION CENTER--Police Lieutenant Colonel, Mrs Murni Tukinan,
chief of the Metropolitan Jakarta Foiice Regional Command's Pamardi Siwi Section,
said that the number of narcotics victims being treated at the Pamardi Siwi Reha-
bilitation Center is declining. The colonel told a group from Commission III
(Law) on Wednesday morning that narcotic~ addiction generally stems from family
problems. The Commission III party, headed by H. Agus Djamili, sought ir_formation
on juvenile delinquency and drug abuse encountered by the police. "Pamardi Siwi,"
begun in 1974, is handled directly by the Police Regional Command, with supnort
from the regional government. Sixty youths are currently in custody, including
some whn were arrested, and others committed by their parents. Parents who commit
their children are charged 4,000 rupiahs per month. Pamardi Siwi functions in-
clude running the Rehabilitation Center, and responsibiliry for the protection,
supervision and well-being of juveniles. Lieutenant Colonel Murni Tukinan said
the decline in narcotics abuse is due to a reduction in heroin smuggling. Now,
juveniles use illegal drugs in combination with alcohol, ::hich can result in in-
ternal damage, and marihuana use is increasing. [Excerpts] [Jakarta SINAR
HARAPAN in Indonesian 26 Nov 81 p 2] 9197
MARIt1UANA SEIZFD IN 1981--Djakarta, 10 Jan--Indonesian police have seized 2.2 tons
of marijuana in 1981, a 168.8-per-cent increase over 1980's figure of 1.3 tons,
plice said Saturday. Marijuana was previously grown only in the str~~ng Muslim pro-
vince of Aceh, in northern Sumatra, 1,100 miles northwest of D~akarta, but the cul-
tivation of the hemp plant has spread to several other provinces tY~roughout Sumat-
ra and Java, police said.--NAB/UPI [Text] [Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPL~'s DAILY in
English 12 Jan 82 p 7]
CSO: 5300/4921
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LAOS
ILLEGAL EXPORT OF HEROIN GIVES REGIME HARD CURRENCY
Copenhagen INFORMATION in Danish 17 Nov 81 p 6
[Article by Bertil Lintner]
[Text] A relief map of Laos hangs on the wall of the newly opened Museum of the
Revolution in Vientiane. Blinking lights and small symbols indicate where the
country's different resources are found. Gold, silver, precious stones, coal,
minerals, coffee, water power, and timber. But with the exception of water power,
timber, and perhaps coffee, there is nothing of value to be exploited in Laos.
- Actual geological investigations have never been undertaken,~and most of the
resources exist only on the map in Vientiane.
On the other hand, opium is the only profitable product which Laos traditionally
has had to offer. The situation of the mountain farmers is not much different tlian
in other places in the Golden Triangle in Thailand and Burma. But Laos has never
been ~hy about opium. The big opium dealers have not been guerrilla leaders like
Khun Sa, but highly placed pEOple in the Laotian administration. In colonia'1 times
the business was conducted by the French state monopoly, Regie d 1'Opium, and the
tax on opium was one of the most stable sources of income for the central government.
' The governments of independent Laos did not abandon the opium policy of the French.
For example, the preva.ous finance minister, Sisouk na Champassak, during a BBC
interview in 1970 said that, "the only export we can develep is opium, and there-
fore we should increase its production and export."
During the war in Indochina, the opium of the mountain tribes was purchased by
rightist elements in the government and by Corsican syndicats. At that time the
cigarette factory number 555 housed one of tre largest heroin lat~oratories in Laos.
"The opium king" was none other than the countr~'s military commander-in-chief,
- General Duane Rattikone. The CIA aided willingly by flying the opium from the
mountains to heroin laboratories in the lowlands. The purgose was to secure poli~i-
cal support from the Laotian rightists and the mountain people, the Hmnong, who
were the basic ~lement in the CIA's 'secret army' in Laos. That is now history arid
gen~r.ally known.
No Reports
But what has happened since the Pathet Lao�liberation movement assumed power in
1975? According to the official position, opium is now produced only for medical
use--for ttia country's own needs and for export to pharmaceutical industries in the
Soviet Union, Vietnam and Bulgaria.
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An investigation of Laos' current opium problem is Y.ampereci by the fact that the
country's government has consistently refused to send reports to the IrLternational
Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in Vienna, a UN entity which has tra responsibility
of checking up on narcotics trafiic in the countries which have signed the United
Nations' Convention on Narcotics. Laos has done so, and the refusal of the
Laotian Government to provide information is itself a vio~.ation of the conventioris
which it has signed,
- Sameu Moutharay worked during the years 1975-79 as under-secretary of the ministry
of education, which handled contacts with tne UN regarding this question. Today,
he is a refugee in Thailand and highly critical of the government which he himself
helped create in 1975. His testi.mony raises the first suspicion tliat the official
statements from Vientiane are not in agreement with reality.
"Every year we received a request from the INCB to send in reports on the cultivation
of opium. But I had clear directives from ab~ve not to answer the UN letters. With
a laugh, they ended up in the wastebasket."
Traffic Continues
The international narcotics police in Bangkok, which includes representatives from
nine countries, Interpol and the United Nations' Narcotics Office are convinced
- that the illegal opium commerce in Laos has not ceased. A European narcotics agent,
with Bangkok as his base of operations, said to INFORMATION:
"No one believes that all that opium which is produced in Laos is for medicinal use.
We know that heroin is regularly smuggled over the Mekong River to Nong Khai and
f rom there to the south in trucks disguised as timber transports. Heroin, in cor;-
trast to opium and morphine, has no medical value whatever. It is pure heroin number
3 or 4 which comes out of Laos.
"The Laotian authorities were invited to a meeting on narcotics at Chiang Mai in
November 1980. But they were not interested in coming 'when only the rich have some
narcotic problems.' As you see, they are very cooperative...."
Some members of the police furthermore maintain tYiat new heroin laboratories have
bec-~ established in the BGL brewery in Vientiane and in a detergent factory by the
- eight kilometer marker on the road to Tha Deua, from where the ferry goes to Nong
+ Khai in Thailand.
The director of the two state-owned enterprises is Iem Norasing and is a well-known
- businessman in Vientiane. The fact that Norasing can afford, in an ostensibly socialist
state, to drive arounu in an imported Ford Mustang perhaps says something about his
_ position i.ii the Laotian hierarchy. He works directly under the ministry of trade
and industry and according to refugee sources in Thailand, has very good relations
with minister-president Kaysone Phomvihance.
Good contacts with the country's most important leaders made it possible for I~orasing
to obtain at the end o� 1977 a license from the ministry of trade and industry to
import acetic anhydride, the most important of the chemicals used to convert opium
into heroin. A former official in that ministry, who was questioneu by the inter-
- national narcotics police, stated that in October of the same year he was personally
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resp~~isiblr: fur the ~l~~livery uL' 4 Cc~it~ ut op.tunt tu Nur:~~liiH'y "~l~~lrr~;c~nt 1;?~'~ui'~'."
The raw material was taken by two trucks from one of the ministry's warehouses on
the orders of Maisouk Saysompang, who was at that time chief of the ministry's
section for "cooperative goods." It is not at all surprising that the raw opium
came directly from the ministry. The former top official Sameu Motharay explains
why:
"The opium of the mountain tribes is picked up by the Laotian air fo rce at cultivation
- I~oints in Sam Neua, Phon Saly and so forth. It is flown south via Xieng Khcunag and
Luang to Vientiane's airport, Wattey. It is not clear exactly what happens to the
opium then. Only very highly placed people in the government know. Those of us on a
somewhat lower level were told that it was a'party matter' and that it would be best
if we did not ask too many questions."
Other Laotian sources and r::?1.ab1e Western narcotics police sour~es state that opium
and heroin are flown on to the border villages of Paksane, Thakhek, Savannakhet and
Pakse in scuthern Laos. They are smuggled from there into Thailand with timber
transports. A lieutenant in local narcotics police in Udorn Thani-- the regional
center for northeastern Thailand--confirms this information in ari interview.
"Laotian narcotics--opium, heroin and marijuana itself--are smuggled over the border
in several places. It is shipped to Udorn Thani, where it is repack ed in smaller
containers for further distribution and sale."
_ More Being Intercepted
Confiscations of Laotian narcotics in Thailand has increased signifi cantly in recent
years. On 20 October 1980 an automobiie was involved in an accident in the vicinity
of the ferry slip in Nong Khai. The car had just come over from Vientiane, and
after the accident it was discovered that it had 8 kilograms of pure heroin number 5,
packed in small bags stamped with the common trademark, "Double UD Globe Brand."
On 1 May this year 1.4 kilograms of heroin were confiscated outside St. John's
- School in Bangkok. The intermediary dealers stated during the police hearing that
the narcotic came from Laos. In August the police in Loei caught th ree Laotians
red-handed ~aith 17.8 kilograms of raw opium by the Mekong River. It was, according
co the arrested, not the f irst time that they had smuggled a large q uantity of narcotics
into Thailand from Laos.
Something which causes a high degree of concern among the narcotics police in Bangkok
is that Laos has been for several years a haven for Poonsiri Chanyas ak, a notorious
top man in the narcotics world of The Golden Triangle. Poonsiri ope rated from
Thailand during the 1960's ar.d 1970's and built up his heroin empire around the
Honey night club in Bangkok. Connections extended to the illegal ma rkets in Hong
Kong, the Philippines, Laos, South Vietnam, the United States and We stern Europe.
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Poonsiri was arrested in March 1974 when the police moved against hi s haunts in
Bangkok. Four Hong Kong 'b usiness connections' were sentenced to long prison terms.
But Poonsiri disappe~red f rom the police custody under mysterious ci rcumstances, in
which fantastic bribery sums were involv~d.
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Narcotics Dealer Exposed
Poonsiri disappeared without a trade, and only last year was it revealed that he was
in Laos. He had, under the pseudonym Thao Sethahirath, opened an export-import fir.m
on Rue Sethathirath in central Vientiane. The firm is called Rasita Imports Ltd.~
and is invol.ved officially in selling tractors, bulldozers, and highway machinery.
On his business card Poonsiri is represented as a'government supplier'. At the
time of the expose,he had already visited Hong Kong several times, suppl.ied with a
Laotian diplomatic passport. But it was quickly pointed out that Poonsiri no longer
dealt in narcotics. The assurances were not particularly convincing, especially
when Poonsiri's chief assistant was identified as the well-known director and
_ businessman Iem Norasing.
A number of Poonsiri's henchmen from the time in Thailand have been arrested during
the years Poonsiri was 'missing,' that is, safe in Laos. All had heroin in their
possession.
As the old records were dug up and the puzzle put together, it became more and more
difficult to maintain the facade that Poonsizi was only a law-abiding importer of
tractors. Something had to be done. '.-i~ was arrested by the Laotian authorities
in January of this year, and charged with trying to hribe Laotian civil servants and
smuggling in goods from Thailand--a strange charge ::n a country where bribery is a
general practice and ander normal circumstances nev~r leads to prosecution. Nor
was narcotics mentioned in cu~nection with the case. Poonsiri has not yet appeared
in court 10 months after the arrest. His firm continues to function without
~ restrictions, and his assistant Norasing is still a free man. Critics say the
- arrest was a sham.
Strong Indications
It is naturally impossible to show that the narcotics traffic from Laos is organized
by the country's government. But the evidence is strong, and is maintained without
doubt that Laos` narcotics industry functions with government app~~oval. That is not
in the least surprising. Poverty-striken Laos suffers from an acute shortage of
foreign hard currency.
The Pathet-Lao government has only accepted the bitter reality which Sisouk
Champassak pointed out 11 years ago. Nothing has changed in principle in Laos.
Vientianne's old opium barons have only been exchanged for new ones.
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NEW ZEALAND
NATION'S LARGEST OPIUM HAUL ON RECORD HIDDEN UNDER HOUSE
Auckland THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 17 Dec 81 p 4
[Excerpt] The largest quantity lhey never discussed it with convinced that Gopalji had
him. obtained the drugs fram hie
of opium uncovered in They were giving evidence deceased father's effects and
_ New 7�ealand was said at the sentencmg of their he was not sure that Go-
yesterday to have br~ther, Manu Chhima Go- Paui's explaaation mitigated
been in an immigrant ~alji, aged 44, of Taka~iuna, the offence.
family's home for self-employed, who ~?ad Gopalji and Singh were,
many years. pleaded guilty. to a charge of "caught m the very act of
Members of the family, possession of opium, a class trying to sell three kilo-
B controlled drug, for sup- ~'~s of opium at $25,000 a
who migrated from India 28 P~y, lulogram," he said. Police ob-
Iyears ~ ago, told the High Mr Justice Prichard sen� served them in Ethel St,
Court at Auckland they had tenced him to seven years' '~~dringham, on Augaat 21.
~known about a wooden box imprisunment. ~ Altogether four and a 6alf
containin~ a black substance Nelson Edward Singh, ~lograms were involved
under their house in Panama aged 42, a die setter of Sand� With a~1 estimated str~et
Rd, Mt WeIlington. ringham, was sentericed with value of ~432,000, he said.
They said it belonged to him bo six years' imprieon- Indian'l~adition
their. father wha dieci in.1975. ment on a charge of offering Russell' Johnson, for
The subject of the box was to supply opium. z the Crown, said it was the
"taboo" . in the family and The judge saic~ be was not largest discovery of opium
on record ifl this country. ,
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PAKISTAN
BRIEE' S
HARSH PUNIST~IENT FOR TRAFFICKING--A new law providing "very harsh punishments" for
those involv~ed in the smuggling of narcotics is on the anvil. The draft of the
proposed law has been approved by Pakistan Narcotics Control Board (PNCB) and the
Pakistan Customs, Mr G. Ashraf Jahangir, Member (Customs), CEntral Board of Revenue
(CBR) said in Karachi. Referring to recent Customs seizures of norcotics including
heroin from various parts of the country, he said some w~re ~of more than 200 kilos
of heroin adding that it speaks of the seriousness of the problem. Asked about the
reasons of smuggling of Pakistani currency, he said this was due to the fact that
the Pakistani rupee fetched good price abroad and was in great demand, until re-
cently. Following a number of steps taken by the Pakistan Government, he said,
the ~xchange rate of Pakistani rupee whicr was 45 dirhams to Rs 100 had come down
to 35 dirhams to Rs 100 recently. The decision to accept duty in foreign exchange
for accompanied baggage of returning passengers from abroad had also helped in
br~nging down the demand of Pakistani rupees abroad. [Karachi DAWN in English
29 Jan 82 p 16]
HEROIN SEIZED AT KARACHI AIRPORT--Sind Crime Branch made a seizure of 14 kilograms
of heroin worth over �.s. 15 million (Rs. 150 million street value) at the Karachi
Airport on Saturday night. Two persons�--Ahmad, a resident of Bahadurabad and career
Abdul Qadeer, a resident of Orangi Townsliip--were arrested. A police party led by
SP Sardar Abdul Aziz in a lightning raid at the airport intercepted a Suzuki van
driven by accused Ahmad and recovered six kilograms of the fine quality heroin while
on the way to the airport. The grilling of the accused led to the arrest of career
Abdul Qadeer who was sitting in the airport restaurant with four kilograms of heroin.
He was actually waiting for the remaining quantity and a"signal" from the Masters.
He had a ticket for Amsterdam and ;aas to board a PIA flight scheduled to leave at
2.30 a.m. on Sunday morning. Accused Qadeer led the polic~ party to his Orangi
Township house from where another four kilos of heroin was recovered. Intensive
questioning of accused is on to establish their contacts within and outside Pakis-
tan and the details of the Operation. [Text] [Karachi DAWN in English 1 Feb 82 p 3]
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= PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS
ANTIDRUGS CANII'AIGN--The Education Ministry has launched a nationwide intensified
school-based and community-oriented drug abuse prevention and control program.
Education Minister Onofre Corpuz said the program was prompted by the alarming
rise in cases of drug abuse in schools and communities. The program will stress
preventive educatior~ and information. The Dangerous Drugs Board and UNESCO are
supporting the program. According to the education minister, the program will
concentrate on the southern Tagalog region, near metro Manila, in the north Bicol
region, and in the central Visayas area. [Text] [HK080126 Manila Far East
. Broadcasting Company in English 2330 GMT 7 Feb 82] ~
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SRI LANKA
BRIEFS
GANJA PLANTS SEIZED--Officials of the Excise Department at Hambantola seized 150,000
mature ganja p7,ants following a raid on a 15-acre plantation in Sellakataragama.
They als~ recovered 225 gal]:ons of illicitly distilled liquor. Five men arzested ~
in this connection were produced before the Hambantota Magistrate, Mr Cyril Hunukum-
_ bura, who remanded them till January 29. The raid was conducted by a team of
excise men, headed by Excise Inspector Anton Seneviratne, OIC, Hambantota. The
Assistant Commissioner of Excise (Southern Division) Mr W. Weber is directing
investigations. [Text] [Colombo DAILY NEWS in English 25 Jan 82 p 1]
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_ TAIWAN
. BRIEFS
DRUG SEIZURE--Taiwan narcotics agents have seized some 4.pounds of heroin from.
~smugglers in the past weekend. The heroin has a street value of 253,000 U.S.
dollars. It was discovered from the luggage of a Chinese cou~ple from Malaysia. .
- [OW041307 Taipe International Service in English 0100 GMT 3 Feb 82]
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THAILAND
DRUG LAWS CF,LLED INEFFECTIVE: KINGPINS ESCAPE PROSECUTION
Bangkok SIAM RAT SAPPADA WICHAN in Thai 20 Dec S1 pp 7-9
= [Article: "The Heroin Kingpins, Influence Above the Law"]
[Text] Concerning narcotics suppression, every government up to the present
has proclaimed that this is an important policy for really suppression the
drug trade. Drug laws have been revised to increase penalities ranging all
the way to death for drug producers. Drugs have been burned for all to see.
Plans for destroying the poppy fields of the hill tribes have been made
in order to create drug free zones in the north in the Golden Triangle area.
But all of these things are a deception. How many heroin kingpins have been
arrested and punished in accord with the laws. Usually, they ar~ able to
escape through some loophone in the justice system, either during the investigation
after arrest, after being accused, during court deliberations or after being
sent to prison. The heroin kingpins are the root of the drug problem.
"Lao Su," an internationl drug trafficker and producer, was once arrested
_ but he escaped from prison just several days before he was to be executed
as ordered by the Revolutionary Council. He faked illness and t:.en escaped
from his hospital room. He has returned to producing narcotics and exporting
them abroad as usual at Doi Lang near the Thai-Burmese border. And he has
strong armed forces for protection. He was under arrest between 14 July
and 20 August 1977. He was arrested along with Mr Lao Fan. They had 122
grams of heroin, 22 grams of morphine and 14 kilograms of cooked opium on
them. Only Mr Fan was execvted.
In order to arrest a heroin kingpin, the narcotics suppression units must
spend a long time invest�igating their activities. But after making an arrest,
instead of these people being justly punished in accord with the law, after
passing through the various stages of prosecution, only the "small fry"
are left to be punished. The l~ingpins always escape the hand of the law.
As for the influential drug trafficking groups along the border, such as
the 93rd Division and Khun Sa's group, it can almost be said that no one
dares touch them.
Police Major General Phao Sarasin, the secretary-general of the Office of
- the Narcotis Control Board (ONCB), often claims that the current laws do
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not really provide support for arresting the major drug traffickers. The
present legal system is based on having clear evidence, that is, the criminals
must [be caught withJ the evidence ir. their possession before they can be
punished. But these ca~italists ne~~er handle the drugs themselces. The only
evidence that can be found is circumstantial evidence that depends on the
time in which the investigation is made. These capitalists thus have a great
chance *a escape punishment. Thus, the laws must be revised so that broader
arrests can be made. It looks as if the main issue has been lost sight of.
In this situation, narcotics control units once carried on operations and.
scored a victory. They were able to make arrests, with those arrested being
among the most wanted traffickers in the world, without any evid~nce i=n
their possession]. This was the case of Mr Rubengkia and Mr Udom Atsawaitthiwattana,
who were arrested on 11 July 1973. [Officials seizedJ 2.5 tons of heroin
and 76 kilograms of morphine in the Roi To area near the border between
Surat Thani and Chumphon provinces. Article 17 was used and they were held
for trial by the court. The lower court, the appellate court and the Supreme
Court all sentenced each man to 40 years in prison, relying on the evidence
obtained from the investigation. There is no need to have a law for jailing
suspects as called for by Police Major General Phao. The only thing necessary
is to make use of the aims of the existing laws. If this is done it will
be possible to prosecute drug traffickers. It is no~ necessary to revise
the laws as has been called for.
It is at the prosecution and trial stage that the "heroin kingpins" are
most able to escape. In some cases, they have mysteriou~ly disappeared at
the Supreme Court stage and final verdicts have nerver be~n reached. Conaerning
these cases, there is only great mystery and suspicion. For example, there
is the case of Mr Phunsiri, or Tong, Chanyasak, who was arrested on 9 March 1974
along with five Hong Kong chemists. This was the first time in 10 years
that a refinery had been seized in the Lat Phrao area of Bangkok. Mr Phunsiri,
one of the top traffickers in the world, escaped to Laos. He set up a refinery
and is presently sending c?rugs into the northeastern region of Thailand.
Mr Phunsiri and the files on him Were turned over to the public prosecutor.
But the public prosecutor in that period, when Mr Charun Isaraphakdi was
the director-general of the Department of Public Prosecution, refused to
prosecute the case, saying that there was not enough evidence. But when
the Police Department protested, they ordered that the case be prosecuted.
But in the meantime, Mr Phunsiri fled and he has not yet been recaptured.
From an investigation, it has been learned that Mr Phunsiri is still in
Vientiane and that he regularly travels back and forth between Nong Khai
and Vietiane. As for the five Hong Kong chemists, the court sentenced them
to 58 years 6 months in prison.
Another case ~f a heroin kingpin who is one of the leading traffickers in
the world is the case of Mr Sukri Sukonphirom, or Suichiwan Saehoi. He was
arrested on 22 March 1975 together with 25 kilograms of heroin. The suspect
confessed and his case was sent to the public prosecutor, who ordered that
a new investigation be conducted and that he be allowed to post bail. It
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turned out that Mr Suichiwan, who was involved with Mr Rubengkia in the
drug trade, was sentened to 28 years in prison. However, he had fled while
out on bail.
That is not all. There is also the case of Mr Pakyoklin, a heroin kingpin.
Narcotics suppression units had to arrest him two times. This tnan, a Haw
C}linese, was an international trafficker who regularly shipped [drugs] between
. Laos, Thailand and France. He was first arrested on 24 May 1976 along with
four others. He had hidden 5 kilograms of heroin in a golf bag that was
to be sent to Australia. When his case was turned over to the public prosecutor,
the prosecutor refused to prosecute him, saying that there was not enough
evidence. But when the Police Department objected, the public prosecutor
ordered him prosecuted. But Mr Pakyoklin quickly escaped, leaving behind
his accomplices, including Mr Luang Huamkhaem, a citizen of Hong Kong, and
his assistants. They were sentenced to 20 years in prison. After his arrest
the second time, he was sentenced to 46 years 8 months in prison.
The public prosecutor is not the only obstacle in suppressing narcotics.
At the trial stage, cases have "vanished" and the suspects have fled. Based
on investigations, one such ca_a is that of Mr Ari Chunyaphadikun, Mr Racha
Saelim and their accomplices. They were arrested on 30-31 December 1976
with 20 kilograms of heroin. This was a very important case. Mr Ari was
considered to be one of the most wanted heroin kingpins in the world because
he was an international drug trafficker. He operated in the south, in Bangkok
and in Laos. He was one of the first people to hide drugs in double-bottom
suitcases. The court sentenced his accomplices to 40 years in prison. Mr
Ari was sentenced to 80 years in prison. But it turned out that Mr Ari posted
bail while the case was in the appellate court and he fled. The case that
was sent to the Supreme Court has never been d~cided.
Even though a case may pass the prosecution and trial stages and the person
is sentenced to prison, heroin kingpins can still make a mockery of the
government's drug suppression policies at all stages and in various ways.
For example, there is the case of Mr Siri Sirikun, one of the leading heroin
kingpins in the world. He was arrested along with two other people on 5
October 1976. Also seized were 9 kilograms of heroin. The court sentenced
him to 33 years 4 months in prison. While the case was being appealed, he
posted bail by forging a court seal and fled from ~tang Khwang Prison, going
to Pinang Island in Malaysia. He sold chemicals and smuggled drugs into
the south until he was finally arrested by Malaysian officials and extradicted
back to Thailand, where he was again imprisoned.
As for this arrest of Mr Siri Sirikun, this did not result from investigations
by Thai officials. Narcotics suppression officials themselves are afriad
of the political and financial influence of the heroin kingpins and if they
are arrested, they are immediateiy released through some loophole in the
justice system. Thus, officials aim at arresting only the small fry. Even
so, thay too escape from jail. For example, there is the case of Mr Buntha
Sombanya and Mr Sanguan Banchakhan, who were important transporters for
the Haw Chinese and who transported drugs from the north to Bangkok. They
were able to escape from jail and escape the suppression Division. They have never
been recaptured.
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- Malaysia helped capture Mr Siri because Thailand once captured Mr Tanhokkhun, or
Hokkhun, Saetang, a Malaysian Chinese who was wanted very much by Malaysian
officials. He was an international trafficker. Thai officials arrested
him at Soi Thong Lo, Sukhumwit Road, on 1 December 1977. The court senteneced
him to 48 years in prison. It has been learned that he died in prison and
did not have a chance to again engage in heroin trafficking in Malaysia.
There is only one heroin kingpin who has not escaped and that is Mr Changcheng-
ching, or Bunlong, Saechang. He was arrested together with his accomplices
and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in accord with Article 27. However,
he may receive a pard~n on the occasion of the 200-year Rattanakosin celebrations.
Thailand's i979 Narcotics Act is thought to be the only law in the world
that stipulates the death penalty for drug producers and for those who import
or export drugs. If the intention is to sell drugs or if a person.has more
than 20 grams in his possession, which is considered as possession with
intent to sell, the penality is death also.
However, stipulating such stiff penalties in the laws is more of a scare
tactic. There have been many times when the narcotics suppression units have
encountered problems concerning great political and financial influence,
influence which has been used to escape from places used to punish people
in accord with the law. In particular,c-nncerning the international druq
traffickers who are wanted throughout the world, it can be said that they
escape every time using various secret and mysterious methods. ~
Thus, the government's burning of narcotics and its destruction of poppy
plants, the "heart_" of the hill tribes, is just an act to fool people throughout
the world. The hope is that foreign governments will think that Thailand
is sincere about suppressing narcotics and that they will provide more money.~
But in reality, the main purpose of this great act is to have the United
Nations and the United States "see" and this will not have any effect on
the influence of the narcotics traffickers.
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THAILAND
INCENTIVES FOR TRIBESMEN TO PLANT POPPIES NOTED
Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 14 Dec 81 p 3
[Monday Conversation column by Wannawithit: "Rectitude or Survival"]
[TextJ Between the "rectitude" of one group and the "survival" of the whole,
which is the more important?
If this question were asked of people around the world, regardless o� whether
. they were illegals in some country or civilized people in a penthouse, most
poeple would choose "survival."
An event that is taking place in the intricate mountains in the northern
part of Thailand has played a part in generating this question. While learning
about this event will not give anyone any pleasure, I feel that it is necessary
to discuss this. It is my hope that after hearing about this, some people
will have some views on this question. ,
I had business which took me to the north for several days last week. Chiang .
Mai was the first province that I stopped in. The weather was cold and there
was a breeze. This made the city and the people seem cool and tranquil like
the weather the cool breezes and warm rays of the sun admidst all the
pretty flowers helped create the exquisite atmosphere. Thus, the lives of
all the people in the city seemed peaceful and happy.
But while peace was spreading eveiywhere in the plains there, in many places
in the mountains, things were going up in flames.
= And these flames were burning brightly, fueled by the question of, if it
is no longer possible to survive, what form will man's struggle for the
last minute of life take?
There will be a major drive to destroy the poppy fields in the mountains,
a drive that will last from this month to February.
"Opium" is the basis for many types of well-known drugs such as heroin,
_ white heroin, amphetamines, stimulants and so on. Everything derived from
opium is important. Therefore, if we are to suppress narcotics, we must
suppress opium. This has been known for a long time and is generally understood.
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The United Nations has established a large annual budget (which can be used
freely) for this. The narcotics control boards in some countries have received
~ large amounts of money (both from their government and from~the United Nations)
for the same reason.
But even so, the amount of opium in the world has not decreased as intended.
And in many countries it is still easy to buy and sell drugs.
"Thailand" is one country that has been cited as being a fertile country
and an important producer (of narcotics). In the past ~hen the leaders of
the country began to "emerge" and go visit other countries, our country
began to engage in "narcotics suppression" activities.
As more and more suppression activities were carried on, some powerful people
became richer and richer and mare and more problems were created for the
people, who sympathized [with the officials~ about what to do in order to
solve the problem of hill tribes making a living by growing poppy. There
were also more and more rumors and actions to the effect that some powerful
people who did not come from wealthy back.grounds were becoming more and
more wealthy and powerful because of their incomes from opium and other
narcotics (which they either sold themselves or, faking ignorance, let others
sell) .
Since these powerful and clever people were able to carry on dishonest activities
by concealing the evidence, to halt the spread of narcotics, the United
Nations had no other choice but to "pour money" into the countries to establish
"narcotics control offices" and to devise various methods to suppress opium. �
As for Thailand, the problem of stopping the hill tribes from growing poppy
is a matter of national security since the hill tribes whom the government
- has nearsightedly suppressed and whom the communist bandits have won over
[to their side] are enemies of the government.
Many qovernment soldiers will die in this struggle before someone finds
a way to suppress this, a way that is less violent and that is more a political
victory, by creating a feeling between the "hill tribes" and "ourselves"
in order to create good mutual relations.
"The program to provide support so the hill tribes grow substitute crops"
is one such policy that has forced scholars (both Thai and foreign) and
government units concerned to climb one dusty mountain after another all
year. ,
CerL�ainly, a report that this program is making prngress or has achieved
success would be good news since this is the only thing that will point
to a future for the people carrying on such activities and that will lead
to high budgets (both from the government and from the United Nations) each
year.
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1~ut thc~ poppies have not been reduced, narcotics have not been eliminated
and the evil people are becoming richer and more powerful each day.
A minor detail from this poppl eradi~:ation plan provides good confirmati.on
of this. If this program has really achieved results, why is it necessary
to destroy only a few selected poppy fields, fields totalling only about
500 rai, in about 10 villages on three or four mountains?
I have visited some of these villages, both during this trip and several
previous times, and talked to the hill tribesmen who own the poppy fields.
Most are Meo (who prefer the name Hmong), Liso and Mussah. I asked them
why they did not stop growing poppy and almost all of them saici that "if
we stop growing poppies, how can we make a living?"
The hill tribesmen know the narcotics control board officials, the agricultural
officials and the officials from the Public Welfare Department, and these
officials have familiarized the hill tribes with the various crop substi~ution
- programs. But nothing is as important for the lives of the hill tribes as
poppy cultivation.
The lack of expertise, the lack of markets and even the limitations of the
land are things that hinder the cultivation of ~ubstitute crops and make
it difficult to achieve success in this. The picture that the people in
Bangkok or United Nations' officials in New York get from a few test plots
- or from reports by various echelon people involved in carrying on the work
is almost totally the reverse of what is really happening on the mountains.
Because what happens there is that, when the "various officials" leave,
everything stops.
Some people take the seedlings and seed left by the officials arid plant
them and the crops do grow. But what are the hill tribesmen to do then if
the officials do not return to the villages and it takes several days
~ to travel from one village to the next.
~
r Rice is an essential item but in some places in the mountains there are
obstacles to growing rice. The rice may not come up becasue the elevation
is too high. For this reason, the hill tribes have had to use goods that
can be bartered or sold easily. And so, in the end, it is always opium that
is traded or sold.
Sometimes, just one bag of opium that is brought down and exchanged for
rice belonging to the Karens, who live at lower elevations, can be traded
for a tang [one tang equals 20 liters] of rice. But if they bring potatoes,
which the entire family must help carry down the mountain, they cannot exchange
them for rice. And so, what must be their thoughts and feelings as they
return to their homes on the mountain?
Thus, opium has always been a tool of convenience for the hill tribes. This
is because, besides the fact that the hill tribes are skilled cultivators
and the weather in the mountains supports this cultivation, opium has never
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involved any marketing problems. It can always be sold or traded for rice
or consumer goods.
Because such is the case, what crops can be grown in place of opium? This
should be considered.
_ When "officials" come to their villages, the hill tribes are glad to listen,
watch and follow the orders of the officials during that period in accord
with the duties of good citizens (they are told that it is [their duty]).
Some of them are criticized for still growing poppies. These people either
deny this or run away. The rest who stay listen and work, and the people
' who accompanied the officials take pictures and movies. The tribesmen wait
until they leave and then begin to sow seed in the poppy fields again.
Yes, "if we don't grow poppy, how can we make a living." This was said by
a hill tribesman. But the following are the words of a[plains] Thai such
~s myself: While governmer.t officials believe eradication of the poppies
is the heart of narcotics suppression, the hill tribes probably believe
that making it difficult to sell opium or not having buyers is the heart
c~ �~aking the hill tribes give up poppy cultivation. `
On~ old Meo tribesman, speaking through an interpreter, told me the last
t: ~ we met that "there have been reports that they will come burn the poppy
fields soon. But we don't know when they will come. I am afraid, afraid
that they will kill and set off explosions. I remember the time when I was
living on Kho Mountain. They (communists] came and said that soldiers were
going to come and set off explosions and that I had to choose whether I
was going to join them or be killed. That time, I was lucky eriough to
get away in time. I feel the same way this time unhappy. If the poppies
are cut down, the opium sap will be lost because the poppies are.almost
ready to be cut. If we can get [the opiumJ before they come, we should have
- enough to exist on. We will have to wait and see."
Concerning the things that I saw and heard and that I have discussed here,
- It must be repeated that none of this was meant to oppose or object to the
government's destruction of the poppy fields. I just want to make people
notice that while one government unit is deciding to do something, another
government unit concerned is making preparations to "counteract" this ~nd
so what cvill the effect be?
I symoathize with the government officials who have no choice about these
actions. It is like being concerned about the lives of several hundred other
people who are living on top of those mountains, people who have no other
choice either.
Am I being too presumptious if my worries stretch as far as being concerned
Eor the nation's security with respect to the ethnic minority problem? These
people are being forced into a situation in which they must oppose the actions
of government officials. This is similar to what has happened in the past.
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I would like to stop here by summarizing what was said above. Between the
"rectitude" of one group and the "survival" of another group, which do you
- think is more important?
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VIETNAM
CURING DRUG ADDICTS IN HO CHI MINH CITY
Hanoi VIETNAM COURIER in English No 11, Nov 81 pp 13-14
[Article by Dr. Truonq Thin]
[TextJ ~T Binh "1'rieu Ncw Youth treatment. ' ~
School, a c~ntre for the
curing of drug addicts in Those. belonging to ~ the first
Ho C1il Minli City, we liave car� category are addicts who ar~ not
ried out investig~tions on a,5oo so corrupted as ta be l~armful to
patients, and obtained the follo~v- soeIety and can rtill work, although
ing resutts : g8.z % of the addicts they are handicapped by their
- are young people, but same of addietion. Accounting for~ qo
them took to drugs 4~ ~�ears agu, they are' ' curad In their own ~
' and others, at the age of iz or ?3~ hoin'es by soci~l methods. .
and their arms. are pocked with
ir?jection marks. Some addicts have The second category comprises
made use of opium and morphine, corrupt add4cts, who, apart from
others,,of LSD, marijuana, heroin ' coptracting ~ocial diseases, lived a
sed4tives or other stimulants. pci-verted life harmful to order and
seeurity and easily fell lnto crlmi,
- Thcse.addicts ~isuatly contracted nal practices. They~ account for
such social dlseases as sy }iilis io of ~the addicts a~id need to bC .
(z7.~ j) T.B (3.7 malaria ~o concentrated for long treatment
hypothrepsta (30 purulent sca- and� reform. ~ .
- bies (6t 11~ost of them have, �
committed delir~yucncies or crimes The addlcts in the first category
(the~t : ioo % banciitry : 50 mur- (about 9o,ooo) are. cur4d� by socie-
der : z/, drug trafficking : 40 ty, while those belonging to' fhe
prostitution : 80 % of the female ~econd cate~ory (about to,ooo) are
addicts). g~;thered together ~for treatment:
~ Nlnety' per cent of the pallent~
How can we solve the problem treated by social methods have
of drug addlction in the social and thcir disease cured by , means of
medical fi~ld ?"This wrs one of receiving srr,aller and smaller
ihe primary concerns of the author- doscs of drugs until complete
itfes in Ho ~hi Minh City, short- reco~~cry.
ly after liberation. ~ The main ~ ,
I difficulty is how to cure all the These methods rove to be effec-
? hundred thousand addicts in the tive thanks toP the follo~ving
city in a sho'rt time. Even if 'all of
them are gathered for tre~tment, measures: .
ever y. vear, ftve thousand people� ~
can Uc cured at the most. Thus i. Tlie rcvolutionar~� authorities
twenty yesrs wouid be needed, co cUt all sources of drug supply end
di~~ase would' nevcr disappear if the quant(ty consumed is visibly ~
- we relied only on therapy. To solve reduced. � .
the problem, we have' divtded
_ ' the ~addlcts intu two cat~gortas: z. Thc authoritics and inhab-.
most of them are treated at home, itants in ?he city educate hoolig~ns
4he others � are taken in for and stcp up the new life move-
� racnt, so the drug addicts fcel they
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are out of their element and con- lobe�of~ the brain:~ destructlon o[
sequently reduce thc use of drugs. the region of the brain which
Th~ econo'mic difficulties in Si~~s the sensation of pleasure to
post-war days have lowered the drug addicts. - �
iving stand~rd of the people and Those ~ classical ~ metfiods are
. compclled the addicts to curtail time-consuming and most txpen-
the consumption of drugs, sive, and are sometimes violent
and harmful to the health of the
4. T}~e drug adciicts do not like addicts. ' '
to be " hospitalized " for a long- We~ are now applying~ a ne~v
term transformation and make method recognized by the health
sclv~sou~ cfforts to cure them-. service, known by the name of
Binh TrIeu, the� first cefltrE for
The results of the drug reduc= curing drug addiction in' Ho Chi
tion method are most heartening, Minh City. �
The basic investigations made in Almost all the addicts ~n Vtet-
tt~e five inncr dis!ricts of, Ho Chi nam~ use optum, heroin or mor-
Minh City by the drug curing phine, 'and we. deal; ~k?ith. ''these~
centre have revealed that there dru~s on1y,,
remain anly 6xq drug addicts in , i . , ~ ; �
- ~73 wards of 583,~~~ inhabitants. As ~ar as the ~ymptomsof:the cri's=~~
Thus the numbcr of addicts for Is are concerned, wr�divide, them~
thc whole clty is now about ~,ooo aecordtng to five functions of clas-
(or t.o~ comP:ired ~vith hun- slcal mediclne :
dreds of thousands of addicts before
liberation. ' I, Increase of ~movement : the
Wlth regard to the .inveterate patient fidgets, twists in convul-
addicts who are' usually corrupt, sinns; sometimes he suffera from
we concentrate them for a long insomnia, his heart beats precipi-
reatmenR and transformation. After ,tately ; his blood . ptessure
being. weaned from drugs, tfiey increases; he coughs, perspires-
are enab(ed by means of study and profusely and feels nauseous; his
, work to become useful to ttiem- genitals are excited.
selves, to thc'ir families and socie- z; Increase of temperature �
ty. In this respect we havc achiev- the patient feels hot in his chest,
ed two Important rSsults in ther-' and his face flushes while respi-
~ apy and education. . , retion is heavy because of tlie
' Formerly in Southcrn Vietnam rush o: blood ; his tongue, eyes,
and other countries the following nose, are red he has a heada~he
methods were used to cure drug and somettmes his lungs, stomach
addiction : and ears bleed. .
i. Method of substttution: the ad- 3. Increase of secretlon: abun-
dicts 'take Methadone, a li ht drug dant secretlo~ of urlne, sv~~eat,
to replace opium or morp~ine. tears mucus; saliva � uncontrolled
ejaculation of spercri, leucorrhoea
z. Method of dose reduction : (!n women). '
tl~e addicts use opium in a smaller ~
and smaller dose together with 4. Reduction of , assimllatfon:
another sedative or anodyne.~ it causes dysentery;~ abundant ss-
g. Sleep cur~: the addict is given complairts, dyspnoeA urine~ chest
an artlficial sleep of 3-7 days by
swallowing a strong dose . ot S. Weakness of the reserve
sl~eping 'pills. ' funct[on: the patient doee not retaln
4. Method of vio~ent .cure: the liquids; he is easily frightened,
addtct Is confinedi !n a room and fears cold and water, has a poor.
prevented from ustng drugs ; he is memory. 1'he symptoms are : abun-
teft to torture �himself by violent� dant dlscharge of urine; e jaculation
of semen, leucorrhoea, hair fsllin~.
convulslons and his craving for ear buzzing, fallfng eye~tght.
drugs vanishes gradually.
5. Electroshock : electrlcity is According to traditional medi-
used to elimin~te the convulsions clne, the lntenaified funetloning of
oC the addic~.. ' the organ emitting heAt le the root
cause of th~ syndromes of drug ad-
6. Psychosurgery of the frontal dictfon. Thic function is determined
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by two forces ln s~? sntagon[stic are most encouraging �
partnership one emtts heat end the .
other prevents the propagation of . . '
heat. As drug addiction i~ A chron- I. Acupuneture helps shorten
ic dis~ase cAUSing asthenis, the the cure and quicky restores the
loss of heat does not � show ~that strength of the patient ; he h~s no
the patient has an over-abundant more convulsions within a few
source of heat, but that the force minutes; all the crises disappear
checking its propagation i~ so weak after four days, and the patient's
that no control is possible. health ie improved after a week.
These symptoms occur in the Z. Acupuncture and oriental
~ tieart and kidneys which are ~relat- medicine are inof~(ensive methoda.
cd by two corresponding system~. ~ �
At the touch of the hand, the sen- Isolated from his eurround-
citive points of. these systems give 3�
a traumatic sensatlon. ings, the patient will not e~sily
- . have a relapse. .
To.summarIse, drug addictioa is .
the sequel of the weakening of 4; Economicall speaking, these
the organ checking the emission of inethods are no~ costly. Iq Itght
heat. If this organ is brought upder' cases, acupuncture ' nnd ortental
control, the syndromes of dru~ gymnastics -~rofound respira-
addiction dioappear; Its function- tlon - are suf~icient. In more seri-
ing can be improved by acupunC- ous cases, the use of inediclnal
- ture and medicines. (Acupuncture herbs is to be added.
ls performed on the cenaittve
poinCs of this orgai~). ' '
- Besides, the following methods �After the cure, the patient will
are applied : be retained for some time for sudy
and to do manual wark. This difff
- Oriental gymnasiics and pro- cult job will. be tackled by the
War Invalid and Social Affairs
found respiration to improve the
physical and m~ntal strength of ~ervlce and the Youth_Union at the
the addicts. New Youth School at Binh Trieu
and the New LiCe Bullding Yo uth
_ Psychological treatment to Schools at xuyen Moc and Vlnh
dissipate the despair stored in the An. Many. addicts have r?rnended
mind of the patient. Affection their � ways and live a useful and
and respect for the dignity of the 'healthy life : they lake part ip the
~ddic~ pt~y an important role. Shock Youth Brigade, join the
armed forces, ~vork in State farms
- Labour cure; a precious meth- or return to their families. How-
od applied after the paticnt has cvrr there are cases of relapse,
recovered his health, to help him snd er~ergetic- measures must be
find o in hts wurK. tAken by the dr~g curing centre
j y to keap an eye on the addtcts after
The results of these methods they ha.ve returned to normal life
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ARGENTINA
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFIC DISCOVERED--Buenos Aires, 2 Feb (AFP)--A drug traffickers' ring
which supplied drugs to personalities of Argentine artistic circles has been
~ discovered b~ the police. This ring also planned to distribute drugs during the
world soccer+cup tournament in Europe. About 10 persons have been arrested in
this connection and some of them have already been questioned by a judge. The
police explained that this ring had international connections and that one of the
persons arrested is a drug trafficker who passed himself off as a descendent of
the tin tycoon [antenor] (Patino), using a Bolivian identity card. This drug
trafficker had set up a clandestine laboratory in the town of Del Viso, 40 lan
northwest of Buenos Aires, where a considerable amount of processed drugs has
been seized together with equipment to transform the sc,-called cocaine base,
which came from Bolivia, into cocaine hydrochloride. According to the police,the
organization's objective was to distributa during the world soccer cup competi-
tion. [Excerpts] [PY050010 Paris AFP in Spanish 0242 GMT 3 FeU 82]
CSO: 5300/2161
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BERMUDA
NARCOTICS SQUAD ON TRAIL OF DRUG SHIPMENT FROM IANDON
Hamilton THE ROYAL GAZETTE in ~glish 24 Dec 81 p 1
[Text] The Narcotics Importation Squad, a team of policemen and Customs officers,
intercepted 135 grams of heroin at the General Past Office nearly two weeks ago.
The heroin, of 60 percent purity, has a street value of $150,000 said the Police
Commissioner, Mr. Frederick Bean.
On Monday of this week, the drug squad seized a large quantity of hashish of good
potency, Mr. Bean added.
"We are eager].y pursuing inquiries," he went on. The local Police Force has been
in touch with Interpol and Scotland Yard. According to Insp. George Rose, head of
the Bermuda Police Narcotics Division, the drugs, part of the same consignment,
came from London.
"Bermuda was the final destination," he said. "There's no doubt about that."
The person to whom the parcels were addr~ssed has been ruled aut as a suspect, he
added.
- Insp. Rose said he believed that the heroin began its journey in Amsterdam. He
called the heroin a major shipment.
"A c~ood seizure has been made," he said. "That amount of the drug has been taken
o.f f the street. "
- In other Police news, Mr. Bean reported a handbag snatching which took place on
December 18. A woman riding along Blackwatch Pass had her bag, containing $43 in
cash s.tatched by a dark-skinned male riding an auxiliary cycle.
A video recorder, valued at $1,000, was stolen from the Atlantic Room of the South--
ampton Princess Hotel.
The 16 cases of breaking and entering yielded thieves $1,510 in cash and $4,945 in
property, the most outstanding items taken being jewellery valued at $2,000 from a
Warwi~k house.
The 18 thefts reported to Police last week netted $5,813 in cash and $406 in
property.
Included in the cash tally is that which was taken from an unattended vehicle.
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
COCAINE PRODUCED IN 198~-La Paz, 1 Feb (AFP)--The weekly magazine INFORMACION
POLITICA Y ECONOMICA (IPE), directed by journalist Gonaalo Lopez Munoz, reported
here today that in 1982 Bolivia will produce 200,000 kilos of cocaine worth $1
billion. IPE believes that the mafia, which can give a luxury car as a gift as
though it were a bouquet of roses, will earmark 5 percent of the above $1 billion
for public relations expenses. IPE points out that almost 550 kilos of cocaine
will be produced daily and that a true fight against drug trafficking must include
not only repression of the mafia but also investigations into the dubious sources
of the fortunes of f irst and second level officials. Lopez Munoz says: Bolivia
will avoid the risk of disappearing as a state or of being a country dominated
by drug traffickers only if it fights corruption. [Text] [PY031507 Paris AFP
in Spanish 2242 GMT 1 Feb 82]
MINISTER ON COCAINE, TERRORISM--The interior minister, Col Romulo Mercado, has .
termed as simple speculation the reports that assert that the illegal export of
cocaine will net more than $1 billion this year. In statements to the press, he
said, basing his remarks on the progress of the campaign for the erradication of
drug trafficking that is being undertaken by the supreme government he believes
- any type of opinion given on cocaine is baseless. He also termed as untrue the
press reports asserting that the country would produce 200,000 kg of cocaine this
year and he asked the press to take into account the efforts the government is .
making to make a success of the campaign of repression against drug trafficking.
� During the course of his statements, the interior minister asserted that there
are no delays in the ~udicial system, because all the necessary steps have been
taken through the justice under secretariat to prevent delays. Within this con-
text, he explained that this problem has now been looked into by his office for
4 months now and denied the rumor that there are delays in the ~udicial system.
Finally, he reported that the state's intelligence services are seeking leads
that can lead to the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks that caused concern
amongst the population some weeks ago. [Text] [PY031813 La Paz Radio Illimani
Network in Spanish 1100 GMT 3 Feb 82]
CSO: 5300/2161
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BRAZIL
COLOMBIAN MAFTA USING INDIANS TO WORK COCA PLANTATIONS
Sao Paulo ISTOE in Portuguese 13 Jan 82 pp 32,33,34,37
[Article by Jose Meirelles Passos: "The Cocaine Indians: How the Mafia Turned
the Upper Rio Negro into a Production Center"j
[Text] It is still early morni.ng and while the first morning light begins to
drive away the darkness, tbe.persistent drone of an airplane engine being warmed
up on the red dirt runway filled with puddles of water, can already be heard.
Some sleepy men, securing their belongings, smoke cigarettes while waiting for the
time to leave for the jungle, where they administer large coca plantations and
laboratories which produce pure cocaine. It is Monday at Mitu, a Colombian town,
which is a true "cocaine storehouse" lost in the Amazon 3ungle, fewer than 200
kilometers from ttie border with Brazil.
Later on the movement of aircraft here will be more in*_ensive. While other Mafia
overseers leave for work and armed dealers arrive with briefcases filled with
dollars, strong young men will unload ~ars of chemi:cal products and load boxes
containing small bags filled with white and refined powder, wliich the Colombian
Mafia will send to the United States and Europe. ~ao or three of those light
airplanes should take off empty~ with only a pilot. Their destinations are
small improvised landing strips near the border with Brazil. Their mission will
be to collect packages with products, which could be included in the lists of
Brazilian exports since the second half of last year: coca leaves and coca paste,
in addition to pure cocaine made in Brazil, carefully grown and prepared effi-
ciently by Amazon Indians. At the other end of Mitu, three blocks from the
modest airport, there can be heard the intermittent drone of outboard motors.
Boats leave the docks, stirring the waters of the calm Uaupes River, filled with
supplies and gallons of fuel, taking Indians for another week of work in the
cocaine clearings and camouflaged laboratories in the forest.
Among them are hundreds of Brazilian Indians. One of them, Uanano Tomas Paiva,
57 years-of-age, has become a living legend among his people. A thrifty man,
he has saved enough to have his own land, going from a laborer to landowner,
an independent grower, a supplier for the Mafia. Owner of two prosperous coca
plantations on the Colombian side, Tomas managed to have good schools for his
nine children--the two oldest are in the university in Bogota--and then he
accumulated an abundant sum in banks in Colombia: A fortune equivalent to 50 ~
million cruzeiros:
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"I spent almost all my li~e in the Amazon Region and the only thing I acquired
was a knowledge of religion," says Tomast with.a look of defiance in his eyes.
"The FUNAI jNational Indian Foundation] teaches. us to live like the whites but
it does not create or obtain johs for us," declares Tomas~ a heavy gold ring
shining on fiis finger and a watch.on his wrisb.. "That is why," lie continues,
"I came to Colombia and settled. I even went as.far as to obtain a Colombian
identification card~" And despite having had misunderstandings with the Mafia,
which according to him led him to rid himself of his two coca plantations last
year--"They began to put pressure on me, they drove me out of the business"--
Tomas Paiva does not think of leaving Mitu. He is now planting coffee and is
preparing to install the first gasoline station in the city with a potential
of 200 boats per day as customers, boats which almost clog the Uaupes River in
that region.
Mitu, as can be seen, is the Eldorado of the Brazilian Indians living in the
upper Rio Negro, region of the Western Amazon Region, where hunting and fishing
is poor, agriculture yields practically nothing, malnutrition and tuberculosis
are chronic and there are no jobs. It was 2 years ago that the Brazilian Indians
began to go to Colombia, where today they ~arn an average of 2,800 cruzeiros per
day (actual minimum wage established by the Mafia) plus meals, caring for the
fields of coca and producing cocaine.
"All everyone talks about here is coca. They see friends and relatives who
return from over there bringing new clothing, rad~os, tape recorders, watches,
and American outboard motors...Then, they follow~the same road," relates Armando
de Lima, a Tariano Indian who lives in a village in Jauarete on the Brazilian side
of the border, 1,10~ kilometers west of Manaus. "Every day two or three loaded
boats depart from here, going up the Uaupes River to Mitu and Mirafloes," says
Armando. The only reason he has not yet taken that road is because he obtained a
job as a carpenter at the FUNAI station, and becaus~e he feels frightened by the
stories of violence told by his friends, who have recently arrived from Mitu.
The differences among some 223 Mafia chiefs who control the narcotics trade in the
country resulted in the murder of 52 people between October and December of last
year, for example. There are other no less surprising cases such as that of the
upsurge of the guerrilla groups of the 19 April Movement, M-19. They have been
moving from the southern part of Colombia, their base, to the region of the
Uaupes River to the west, taking over land so as to also plant coca and produce
cocaine which they trade for weapons in the underground market of Miami in the
United States. The confrontation between the guerrillas and the Mafia appears
inevitable there. The climate, as can be seen, is not at~ractive. However,
there is money in circulation and the expectation of a life of ease, and it is
there that the Brazilian Indians are going, revealing an unsuspected practical
sense.
After an "apprenticeship" in the plantations and laboratories between Miraflores
and Mitu, many decided--others were encouraged--to return to the Brazilian Amaz rn
Region,bringing many coca seeds and starting up extensive coca fields along the
Papuri, Tiquie, Aiari and Acana Rivers in the Upper Rio Negro Regi^n. In that
area of the tropical rain forest, there are now large coca fields and crude
laboratories in 13 towns.* The entire production is exported to Colombia in boats,
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which cross the border and unload their merchandise near the narrow landing strips,
as is revealed by Desano Tomas Caicedo, better known in the region as Tomazito,
famous for being the first--and only--Colombian Indian to otitain a pilot's
license. "The transporting of coca here is: a profitable work," says the Indian~
pilot. "It pays up to $5,000 per month. The only thing is that whoever gets into
the business can never neave. If someone talks about getting out...liang.: says
Tomazito, putting his finger to his head, imitating the sound of a revolver shot.
Tomazito also reveals that lie recently transported several Brazilian Indians,
who paid 50,000 cruzeiros for a 40-minute flight between the border and Mitu
without complaint. "Most of them," says the pilot, "go to enter Into contracts
for supplies of coca, taking samples of their crop with them." The quality of
those samples, let it be said, is undeniable, as can be confirmed by the Manuas
- Federal Police themselves, who collected many leaves in the Brazilian plantations
and sent them to the Drug Enforcement Agency, an agency of the U.S. Government,
which is f ighting the drug traffic everywfiere in the world. And the praise there
was emphatic: Brazilian coca, also known as Ipadu, is of the highest quality.
The samples were collected during the so-called "~peration Ipadu," which the
Federal Police carried out together with the FUNAI in the upper Rio Negro after a
surprising story reached the regional F'UNAI representative in Manaus, Kazuto
Kavamoto, around the end of June 1981. The story, written by Jose Ribamar Caldas
Filho, a native of Maranhao, 28 years-of-age ar.d chief of the Jauarete Indian
Station, had its origins in "Radio Cipio" a word-of-mouth news system used by the
Indians in the Jungle, whicfi gave him the first indications.
Ribamar discover other indications by accident. Once, for example, Ercilia
Araujo, a Tariana Indian woman, who is a health inspector for FUNAI, went to
attend to a patient in Ituim, on the Papuri River, and became lost in the jungle.
Seeking to find her way again, she came upon a vast coca plantation cultivated
by Catarino Brasil, a Piratapuia lndian 36 years-of-age, who decided to engage
in the drug traffic because his mandioca �ields did not even yield enough for
the sustenance of his own family. Days later, Ribamar discovered another
- trafficker: the Tukano Indian, Alfredo da Silva, chief of the Indian co~nunity
of Melo Granco, who was not frightened by the warning of the Indian agent.
"Since the government has not helped me up to now," argued the Indian, "I decided
to enter that business."
The planting of coca, after all, is not much work and the results are quick:
Each hectare of coca yields the raw material sufficient for the preparation of a
kilo of cocaine every two months. The grower who harvests the coca and prepares
the paste can earn up to 2.5 million cruzeiros with that material. There are
reports that the Indians are now receiving weapons from the Mafia for defending
themselves from the police.
The Federal Police, however, are poorly prepared to fight the drug traffic in
- Manaus. Things are even worse in the upper Rio Negro. FUNAI has only the hard-
working Jose Ribamar, responsible from Jauarete of watching over the lives of
4,500 Indians scatCered in 75 towns near the 1,645-kilometer border. It is obvious
that he does not have more than rare contacts with that scattered population,
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_ particularly since all his equigment, a single hoat, is almost always heing used
for transporting sick.Indians.
There is also an additional difficulty. The.coca, the Ipadu, is-part of tfie
culture of the Upper Rio Negro Indians. It cannot, therefore, be forbidden that
the Indians grow Ipadu. It can &e forbidden that they sell tlie coca to the
whites--a measure already taken b.y FUNAI--, the first, however, to recognize
that there is no way to insure compliance witli that measure.
The Silesian missions, which have been in the regions since 1914, continue
believing they can catechize the Indians and ab.olisfi.their old customs, including
the Ipadu. They have not succeeded, as is confirmed by the story of Pedro de
Jesus, a Tarian Indian of 37 years-of-age:. The Silesians sent him to Belem to
study music; piano, to be exact. Afterward Pedro showed the intention of studying
medicine, but the Silesians placed him in a seminary. When he declared his lack
of priestly vocation, lie was removed from the sctiool and lost his scholarship.
He then returned to Jauarete, where he married and had three children and went
to work for the Colombian Mafia. "I lived here 30 years and nothing changes,"
he recalls. "There was never any employm~ent until the business of coca. I
work with hundreds of Brazilisn for a ranch.owner who owns six hectares of coca
near Mitu. Tliere my wife and children receive, as I do, tfiree full meals per
day." To be able to eat "and to be able to buy clothing an_d shoes for the entire
. family," tliat is enough for Pedro. "It happens tliat they civiliZed us but they
did not provide us with tfie means for obtaining a better life. Now, we have
found the way," says this Indian of courteous manners ar.d easy speech. As
far as he is concerned, the police have only one way to put an end to the coca
plantations; "Drop bombs on the jungle and kill everybody."
"The Mafia is Swallowing up the Indian Lands"
Monsignor Belarmino Correa Yep~~s, the bishop of Mitu, Colombia, has been
responsible for 14 years for the four large religious missions located in the
Amazon jungle along the Papuri River, which separates Brazil from Colombia.
Resigned, Monsignor Belarmino restricts himself today to counseling the Indians
not to sell land on which they grow coca to the whites, people of the Mafia.
"It is preferrable that tfie whites come here only to look for the drug than
that they settle here with their criminal bands," he says. In a letter to FUNAI
last November the monsignor warned about the activities of Brazilian Indians
engaged in the drug traffic. In tfie episcopal palace in ~Iitu, a simple wooden
building, the monsignor spoke to ISTOE:
ISTOE: Have you any idea of how many Indians work for the Mafia?
Monsignor: I can assure you that there are already almost 1,000 Indians. Nearly
60 percent of them have plots planted in coca here in the Mitux Region, and
the rest work on contract.
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~ ISTOE: Do you believe it is possihle to make the Ind~ans. desist from that type
- of activity?
Monsignor: No longer. As they make money with coca, they abandon everything,
fishing, livestock, the growing of cocoa....In Mitu, for example, for over two
years tliere cannot ti.e. found even one gra3:n of mandioca flour because the Indians
no longer produce it. Ttiey would rather buy canned sardines in tlie stores than
fish.
I~TOE: How f ar in tlie process do the Indians go?
Monsignor: Ah, my son, here every Indian is a chemist:~ Not only do they know
how to prepare the paste but the crystalized powder, pure cocaine. They are
getting rich.; they buy outboard motors, fiberglass Uoats, sound systems...That
region of the Amazon is very poor and the Indians discovered a gold mine. Brazil
will also have no other choice liut to let the Indians produce cocoa. Either it
allows it, maintaining a control over the situation, maintaining a watcti over it,
or the days of violence we are witnessing here in Colombia will also appear over
there. Little by little the Mafia is swallowing up the Indian ter.ritory.
Fooling Hunger and "Tripping"
The Amazon Region Indians.t�radition~lly use coca powder in two ways for different
purposes. In daily us e they maintain a cud of it in their mouth, making a paste
which little by little erases hunger, thirst and weariness. On special .oacasions
_ tribal rituals, as they are used to saying, ttiey become "wise" for some instants.
* Coca fields: 1~ Santa Cruz de Inamhu; 2) Pari-Cachoeira; 3) Cubate; 4)
Maua-Cachoeira; 5~ Aracu-Cachoeira; 6) Jurupari-Cachoeira; 7~ Siu-Si; 8) Matapi-
Cachoeira; 9) Uapui-Cachoeira; 10~ Ucuqui; 11~ Ituim; 12~ Sao Joao; 13) Melo
Franco. Paste is made in Santa Cruz do Inambu, Pari-Cachoeira and Uapui-Cachoeira.
There are laboratories prod~acing cocaine in the last two communities.
[Cachoeira means "waterfall"J.
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BRAZIL
GREATEST SEIZURE OF COCAINE MADE IN SAO PAULO
. Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portixguese 2Q Jan 82 p 5 ~
[Text] Sao Paulo (0 GLOBOZ--After two months~ of investigations, Sao Paulo DOPS
[Department of Political and Social OrderJ police yesterday made the largest
seizure of cocaine made up to now in Brazil, 78 kilos, and they arrested three
traffickers belonging to a gang which operated in the Manaus-Sao Paulo-Miami route.
The gang is the same one discovered recently in Manatts as it was prepari.ng to
- place several cocaine refineries in tlie Amazon capital in operation.
The 78 kilos were seized in two operations in a place located on tlie Galdinos
Highway in Cotia, w2iere the police arrested a real estate agent and another two
individuals whose names are being kept secret. The capture in the.act took
place 15 January, wfien tlie first shipment of 4Q k.31os of pure, unrefined cocaine
was seized.
~ _
The second shipment, 21.2 kilos, was found next by Commissioner Josicir Cuco in the
interior of a red pickup belonging to the real estate agent. The drug was con-
tained in nine plastic bags in a burlap sack. Yesterday other agents seized 16.8
kilos in a field near the fiome of the real estate agent.
According to Commissioner Romeu Tuma, the agent arrested in Cotia is the
same one who is indicated as the owner of an airplane which crashed recently
in Manaus with a load~alleged to contain 600. kilos of cocaine. The airplane was
never found and the members of the gang, mostly Colomb.ians, escaped one by one~
from the Manaus penitentiary.
Romeu Tuma said that investigations began when the Sao Pattlo DOPS received a
tip about a shipment of 100 kilos from Manaus to Sao Paulo. The idea of
the traffickers, according to tlie commission~er,, was to establish refineries
in Sao Paulo, which would become a central point for drug traffic.. The reason
for this was tfiat in Colombia and Bolivia, wliere the raw bulk of the coca used
by the gang originated, sales of ether, acetone and alcohol, are closely watched
by the police. These are essential products for the processing of cocaine.
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BRAZIL
MAJOR MARIHUANA RING LINKID WITH ORGANIZID CRIME IN SOUTH
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 26 Dec 81 p 16
- [Text] Porto Alegre--The judge of Sapucaia do Sul, RG [Rio Grande do Sul~], Luis
- Francisco Barbosa, convicted 17 members of the largest ring of drug traffickers op-
erating in the South of the country, led by Luis Newton Galiano. Altogether, their
sentences add up to 177 years and 4 months. Luis, better known as Juca Galiano,
was sentenced to 27 years and his possessions, valued at 1 billion cruzeiros, were
confiscated.
~ In convicting this ring, the court brc?ke up one of the largest organizations in-
- volved in marihuana txaffic in Brazil; which operated in 9 states, 93 Brazilian
cities and 5 South American countries and had connections in Australia;.. In report-
ing the convictions, Judge Luis Barbo;~a asserted this proves there is organized
crime in Brazil.
'Impunity'
"Advised by lawyers, the group specialized in developmeni: and maintenance--taking
continued advantage of our inefficiency--of corruption that paved the way to impu-
~~ity," says the judge. He adds that the legal proceedings, whose documents fill
68 volumes, sentence to prison men and women who accumulated an immense fortune by
means of marihuana.
The investigations were begun almost 2 years ago by the Narcotics Commission,
which succe~ssively arrested a number of traffickars in various drugs. Those arrest-
ed include Edio Cardoso de Padua, right-hand man of Juca Galiano, son of the elder
Galiano, who, until a few years ago, headed the nation's largest ring of naxcotics
traffickers (mainly amphetamines, produced freely in Uruguay and Argentina).
The group led by Juca Galiano distributed annually 15 tons of ~arihuana in the
Brazilian market, worth 10 million cruzeiros per montlr-~e marihuana came mainly---- -
from the Paraguayan cities of Capitan Bado and Pedro Juan Caballero and was brought
into Brazil in trucks, covered by loads of lumber, or in three aircraft.
Juca Galiano, 30 years old, left a Porto Alegre jail in 1978 and set up the inter-
national marihuana ring in Parana and Santa Catarina. He is the defendant in sev-
eral lawsuits and is known as the "man of biege," because he had a white Volkswagen
and stole cars of the same color, putting his own license plate~on them, to be sold
in Paraguay.
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The court seized all property held in the name of Luis Newton Galiano, including a
?96-hectare farm in Guarapuava (PR [Parana]); 200 head of cattle; fiue 20-hectare
estates where the marihuana was hid, one in Sao Jose dos Pinhais, Parana; Melodia
Estate in Biguacu, Santa Catarina; two in Camburiu, Santa Catarina; another in
Jordao, Santa Catarina; five houses and one apartment in Porto Alegre; a motor boat;
five trucks; 15 beige Passet and Brasilia automobiles; and five pickup trucks, be-
sides 50 million cruzeiros in dollars, guaranis and cruzeiros.
Police Involved
Luis Galiano was arrested 6 August by the Federal Police and, according to Federal
_ Police Deputy Inacio Carlos Dias Lopes, one of the pilots involved, Uei Souza, an
employee of the Center-West Development Superintendency in Brasilia, disappeared
with the Bonanza aircraft PT-CMC. Among those involved in the marihuana traffic are
three policemen of the 2d DP [Police Precinct] in Santos (SP [Sao Paulo]). The
three--Nelio Assis Lima, known as Kojak; Tadeu de Campos; and Ademar Guerra--were
bribed with 1 million cruzeiros by Luis Galiano.
In all, the members of the group were sentenced to total prison terms of 117 years
and 4 months. In the sentencing, the judge asks that Luis Galiano be confined on
the island prison of Pedras Brancas, the only place he deems of maximum security,
along with the most dangerous members of the group. Galiano's wife, Elaine Gilgen,
received an 11-year sentence. His brother, Luiz Roberto Galiano, was given 6 years.
The others convicted are: Adriano Carvalho, 8 years and 8 months; Severo Grimaldi,
8 years; Rosa de Lurdes Nunes, 13 years; Atanagildo Joao Pereira, 9 years and 1
month; Cleuza Maribel Dornelles, 4 years; Lucind~ Souza Nascimento, 5 years and 4
months; Felicio da Costa Maie, 4 years and 11 months; Vera Regina Maie, 4 years and
6 months; Joao Carlos Faleiro, 17 years and 3 months; Vanis Elisabeth Faleiro, 6
- years and 7 months; Ivo Kerber, 6 years; Maria Odalia Heydt, 8 years; Jorge
Loumboroski, 6 years and 8 months; and Lauro Renato de Andrade, 6 years and 2 months.
Of ~he approximately 50 members of the ring, 23 have been sentenced. The others,
includa.ng the Sao Paulo policemen, are still awaiting sentencing.
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BRAZIL
TWO FOREIGNERS ARRESTID WITH LSD IN BPiHIA
Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 19 Jan 82 p 16
[Textj Salvador--Federal police in Salvador yesterday took to court the inquiry
into the arrest of Uruguayan Gabriel Jose Depetit Bernardes and East German Bettina
Brown, apprehended in Porto da Barra with 140 LSD tablets. The arrest occurred
last week and the DPF [Federal Police Department] has been keepi~g the case secret,
although it promises to publish an official note about the matter today. The
couple, according to Hans Grave, Bettina's lawyer (employed by the GDR consulate),
could be expelled from the country, but he will request the case be dismissed.
According to police information, Gabriel Depetit is the soz,. of the Uruguayan
charge d'affaires in East Germany, stationed in Berlin, where Bettina Brown was
living. She, in turn, left her husband after meeting Gabriel and accompanied the
latter to Brazil. According to Grave, the DPF repart to the court does not charge
Bettina with narcotics traffic, becasue her companion confessed that the drugs be-
longed to~him. .
According to reports, the two were arrested after being informed upon by Nicaraguan
Francisco Javier Ramirez Fernandez, who had taken them to a party. Francisco had
50 grams of marihuana and 20 LSD tablets when police arrived at the scene of the
party, but was released by police shortly thereafter. When Gabriel was arrested he
had 120 LSD tablets and 20 more were faund in the German woman's purse. Gabriel
said he took 10 tablets because he is an addict.
The narcotics judge, who received the case yesterday, will hear testimony for the
prosecution today and will have until the end of the week to render his verdict.
The defendants are indicted under three articles of the Narcotics Law, one of which
has to do with trafficking,..and they could be sentenced for up to 15 years in prison
- or expelled from the country. The case should be closed in 60 days.
Gabriel D epetit is 23 years old and is being held in the Salvador House of Deten-
tion. According to comments in police circles, he also confessed to having brought
the LSD with the intention of selling it to pay for the trip. Bettina, who worked
in an office in Berlin, is 33 years old. Gabriel's defense attorney, who yesterday
lodged a complaint in the Office of Larceny and Theft against Ramirez Fernandez
accusi:ng him of having stolen his client's luggage, is Antonio Sergio Reis.
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BRAZIL
BRIEFS
ADDIGTION RISE IN BAURU--Bauru--Consumption of narcotics in this city increased
during the last 5 years, it was reported yesterday by Edmundo Chaves, president of
the "Life Squad," an entity founded almost 10 years ago for the purpose of rehabili-
tating narcotics addicts. "In 1976 there were about 8,000 users or addicts of drugs
such as marihuana, cocaine and LSD. Today it is estimated that this number has in-.
creasesl to 15,000 in a population of 350,000 inhabitants, although we do not have a
thorough survey because of the difficulties we face. The addict does not want to
expose himself and the trafficker, when arrested, denies any involvement." Cur-
rently the "Life Squad" is trying to cure 50 addicts, most of whom are minors. Ac-
cording to Edmund Chaves, the entity is working with children as young as 12 years
of age, which proves that drug use is spreading at an alarming pace. These data
were confirmed by Jorge Miyashiro, police official, who said the number of addicts
arrested has increased considerably. He asserted that drugs are very accessible,
especially to young people. [Text] [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 6 Jan 82
p 6] 8834
FRENCH ARREST TRAFFICKING SUSPECT--Although protesting his innocence, Brazilian
Ruda de Andrade, just over 50, may be sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in France
for trafficking in cocaine. The trial will be held next month in Burg-En-Bresse
(a city on the Swiss border), where Andrade has been in custody since 28 November,
when he was arrested in the French section of the Geneva Pintrin airport. He had
just landed, coming from Brazil by way of Dakar. In his baggage customs police
found 900 grams of cocaine in small envelopes placed inside packages of coffee.
The value of these drugs was officiaJ.ly estimated at 1.2 million francs. Under
questioning, Ruda de Andrade denied he had transported the drugs and is sticking to
this statement, the legitimacy of which his French lawyer, Jose Serfaty, is trying
- to prove, based especially on his client's trustworthiness. According to Serfaty,
Andrade has no criminal background. Associated with the liniversity of Sao Paulo,
he a1~~ays lived on his salary as a public employee and, it appears, was never in-
volved in questionable practices. "During the last 6 yEars," the attorney stressed,
Andrade never left Brazil, "which would be unthinkable if he were really a drug traf~---
ficker." [Excerptj [Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 15 Jan 82 p 15]
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COLOMBIA
THREE ARRESTED IN BOGOTA FOR COCAINE TRAFFICKING
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 8 Jan 82 p 3-A
[Text] F-2 of the General Staff, the supreme investigating organism of the
National Police, yesterday dealt its f irst blow of the year to a band of drug
traffickers who operate in the capital of the nation. They seized a shipment
of cocaine and arrested three persons as presumably responsible for the crime.
The operation was carried out at the Los Andes toll gate on the superhighway ,
Norte [North] when units of the Narcotics Group searched the bus, license plates
XA-3203, of the "Berlinas del Fonce" enterprise which serves the Cucuta line.
In the vehicle and in several suitcases the F-2 agents found 22 packages of
pure cocaine weighing 15 kilos and they arrested Carlos Julio Barbosa Lizcano,
Hector Hugo Suarez and the woman Maria Viviana Ramirez Sanchez.
- The F-2 disclosed that the capture of
the valuable drug contraband was the
result of a roadblock operation carried
out by specialized personnel of the
National Police.
The prisoners, according to an official r
source, refuse to say who are the true ' t' i~'~~:.
owners of the cocaine and they allege t ~p~
r.
that they did aot know what the suit- "~'y1```~~
cases contained . ; ~ z`"`'' # ~
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Yesterday the F-2 of the General Staff ~
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- continued investigations to find out the �
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source of the drugs. '
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Cocaine traffickers:Carlos Julio Barbosa
1~'
Lizcano, Maria Viviana Ramirez Sanchez and ~ 1~~~-~'
Hector Hugo Suarez, are smugglers arrested ~r
by F-2 of the General Staff while trans- ~~~~b
porting 15 kilos of cocaine in an inter-
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departmental bus to Cucuta. ~ ,;~y~M~,.; ~-~:r
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~ CUBA
FOREIGN MINISTRY ISSUES STATEMENT ON DRUGS
PA281756 Havana PRELA in Sganish 1617 GMT 28 Jan 82
[Text] Havana, 28 Jan (PL)--The Cuban Foreign Relations Ministry has rejected
the U.S, effort to present Cuba as an accomplice in the international drug
traff ic.
In a statement issues last night, the Foreign Relations Ministry declares that ~
Cuba has never given or sent arms to the Colombian guerrillas.
Here is a text of the Cuban Foreign Relations Ministry statement:
The U.S. State Department has just issued an official statement trying to link
Cuba with drug-traffickers to facilitate, allegedly, arms supplies to Latin
American guerrillas.
The State Department states: "Cuba facilitates the work of networks of
traffickers by allowing mother ships transporting marihuana to seek refuge
in Cuban waters while waiting for the arrival of transport boats from the
Bahamas and Florida." This is a lie that represents true infamy.
If there is drug-trafficking in America and if this is a profitable business,
it is because of the growing corruption in U.S. society. This corruption
has resulted in a continuous increase in the number of drug addicts at all
levels of society and in an unstoppable consumption of drugs.
The links between the '4nafia," politics and the U.S. authorities ib daily
_ exposed by the yankee news media, films and novels. It was the U.S. Senate,
and not an anti-imperialist center, which clearly established the agreements
made between the CIA and the mafia--with the encouragement and.support of
U.S. Government officials--to organize the assassination of chiefs of state
of the region. ~
If there is drug traffic, it is because in countries such as Colombia, the
planting, production and international sale of drugs annually produces
millions of dollars, a good share of which goes into the pockets of well~known
civilian and military authorities in those countries.
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Cuba is the only Latin American country that has been able to rid itself of ;
th e spreading drug vice. Cuba is also free of the cultivation and sale of �
drugs. No one would dare deny this fact. ~
No country of Latin America has fought harder, or with more energy and decisiVe-
ness than Cuba to prevent air and sea traffic of drugs to the United States.
Proof of this is that dozens of U.S. and Latin American drug-traffickers have .
served time in Cuban prisons. Those who did not complete their time or who ~
ar~� not still in prison, were released because Cuba acceded to do this due
to humanitarian requests from important U.S. and Latin American persons.
For this reason, we reject with indignation the ignoring of this fact and the
presenting of Cuba as an accomplice in the international traffic of drugs.
We also flatly reject the information that the State Department claims to have
according to which Mr Jaime Guillot Lara "went to Cuba on two occasions since
October 1981 and on his second visit received $700,000 from the Cuban Government
to buy arms for the Colombian 19 April Movement, P: 19, guerrillas." This is,
- ~ absolutely, another lie. That person has never been in Cuba. He has not
received a single dollar from Cuba for any purpose.
We have stated that Cuba has never given or sent arms to the Colombian guerrillas
and we once again categorically reiterate this.
If the U.S. Government persists in this type of charges or in similar hostile
actions against our country, Cuba will f ind itself forced to cease all the
cooperation that it maintains with the United States in the struggle against
the traffic of drugs. ~
The truth is that our country has been some sort of gendarme in the Caribbean
against an international drug traffic that does not affect Cuba at all and
we are in no sense obligated to cooperate with the arrogant government of a
country that maintains a criminal economic embargo against our fatherland,
that illegally occupies a part of our national territory and that maintains
a continuous policy of hostility, aggression and threats against our people.
[SignedJ Ministry of Foreign Relations.
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PERU
INCREASED DRUG CONSUI~TION IN LIMA INVESTIGATED
Lima EL COMERCIO in Spanish 30 Dec 81 p D-3
[Text] There is need for greater police surveillance, parental
� concern over what their children are doing in their free time and
understanding for those who have succumbed to this vice. These
and other ideas have been offered as possible solutions to the
problem of drug consumption in Miraflores.
"Look, as soon as we see people getting together near a park,
- we know that~within a few minutes a'group high' will get
started," Antonio Miranda told one of our reporters during a
survey conducted in the district.
Youths and adults of both sexes expressed their dissatisfaction with the increase
in drug addiction,the solution to which is debatable. While some say that permanent
police operations are necessary, others claim that it is important to have dialogues
with minors and juveniles who are caught up in the vice.
The Miraflores municipal authorities are carrying out preventive antidrug usage
campaigns to determine what.actions should be taken to dissuade young people from
using cocaine and cocaine base paste.
The problem of drug usage in Miraflores is increasing every day, according to the
conclusion reached by experts participating in the Seminar an Alcoholism and Drug
Addiction which was held last April.
The seminar, organized by the Municipality of Miraflores, produced alarming
statistics on drug usage at tl-~e national level which indicated that about 200
billion soles are being spent on drug consumption.
ma, with a population of 5 million of which 3 million are young persons, has
consumed drugs this year worth 150 billinn soles.
The experts point out that the drug usage problem in Miraflores has particular
characteristics, because 80 percent of the cases reported are persons with high
incomes.
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Psychiatrist Baltazar Caravedo Carranza, one of the experts pa~ticipating in the
seminar, said that the lack of psychological support leads children and youths to
use drugs.
"Miraflores was one of the leading drug supply centers. Thirty years ago there .
were tobacco shops in which everythi.ng that could be smoked was sold, including
opium," our interviewee said. ,
In 1956, the National Council for the Repress~on of Drug Trafficking was established,
which was headquartered in the Ministry of Government, now Interior, to handle the
growing use of cocaine and opium.
The first government of Manuel Prado took steps to unify those government
organizations responsible for combating the use of drugs and to set up government
laboratories for the manufacture of cocaine for medical purposes.
Concurrently with these preventive campaigns in 1956, youths from 15 to 25 years of
age converted the Miguel Dasso gas station and Supermarket No 4, as well as the
surrounding area, into meeting places for drug consumption.
As the consuming population increased, cocaine and opium were replaced by marihuana,
which in turn lost popularity with the spread of cocaine and cocaine base'paste.
Difference
The inhalation of cocaine, which has always been dangerous, produces transitory ~
effects and clears the head of alcoholic intoxications, making the user more
talkative and happier than usual.
Cocaine base paste has two fatal components: kerosene and sulf uric acid, which
when consuined damage the liver and brain with no possibility of recovery.
The smoker begins to exhibit low intellectual capability, inability to concentrate
and mental aberrations of the hallucinatory kind which become worse with time.
Drug Addicts _
It is estimated that there are 60,000 drug addicts in Lima, with Miraflores, San ii
Isidro and Pueblo Libre having the highest rates of consumption. '
In the new towns, drug addiction centers are beginning to appear, both in the
northern cone and southern cone.
Dr Caravedo Carranza said that 95 percent of the studies of patients report an -
initial organic lesion which appears with drug consumption.
"Twenty percent of the Peruvian population is suffering from organic lesions of
the brain because of the carelessness at the time of childbirth or because during
the f irst year of life there are diseases which cause this kind of lesian," our
interviewee added.
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Of every 100 deaths from birth to age 100, 50 are under 5 years of age. Of these
50, 40 are under 1 year old. The rest, who survive, have many lesions which are
not immediately manifest but which are triggered by the use of toxic materials, Dr
Caravedo Carranza said. ~
Indiscriminate Use
In Peru at present, the equivalent of 200 billion soles worth of drugs is consumed,
~ with Lima, Arequipa and Trujillo the principal distribution centers.
Gen Berly Baca, chief of the Drugs Section of the Peruvian Investigative Police
(PIP), said that this year 60 billion in cash has~been conf~scated, which, in the
opinion of Dr Caravedo Carranza, means expenditures of 10 times that amount in
consumption.
Negative Results Campaigns
In spite of the coordination of efforts between the municipality, police and
educational authorities in the development of preventive antidrug usage campaigns,
such campaigns, instead of turning consumers away from the vice, stimulate their
curiosity.
"I believe it necessary to educate the parents who are to blame for their children's
taking refuge in drugs. Family differences and tensions cause children and youth
to f ind evasive action necessary," Dr Caravedo Carranza said.
As the result of the information dissemination efforts of the Municipality of
Miraflores to prevent young people from using drugs, the experts have concluded
that parents are indifferent toward getting their children out of drugs and
rehabilitating them.
"The society in which we are living is motivated by preconceptions, thus parents
cannot face up to the problem of drug addiction. They prefer to cover up and
conceal this situation from themselves," Dr Caravedo Carranza concluded.
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, PERU
JUSTICE MINISTER CONDEMNS FOREIGN INMATES' HUNGER STRIKE
Lima EL COMERCIO in Spanish 5 Jan 82 p A-4
[Excerpt] The group of foreign inmates who are engaging in a hunger strike at the
Lurigancho Penitentiary "are not going to get anywhere," according to a statement
made yesterday by Dr Enrique Elias Laroza, minister of justice.
He emphasized, "That action is only intended to pressure the judges; and, legally,
they have no right to go on a hunger strike. However, we are not going to take any
action against them."
Eighteen inmates are involved. They are charged with drug trafficking and staYted
their fast before Christmas. They have demanded their release or transfer to
prisons in their respective countries. The strikers' spokesman is American
national Richard Mayer Stein, 36.
The strikers include nine Americans, three Canadians, two Frenchmen, one Greek, ~ne
West German, one Ch~lean and one Argentine.
Stein said that the foreign inmates are demanding an end to alleged tortures and
greater speed in the ~udicial processes.
"There Are No Tortures" ~
- In response to Stein's statement, the Minister of Justice categorically re~ected
the inmates' demands. "I should like to say that torture has no place in Peru's
legal proceedings" and that the prisoners are interrogated in the presence of a
district attorney.
He emphasized that in any event the crime of drug trafficking with which almost all
of them are being charged "is extremely serious and has very heavy penalties."
Dr Elias Laroza al~o said that exchange agreements which Peru has signed with the
~ United States and Canada apply only to convicted criminals. Of the hunger-striking
inmates, only Stein has been sentenced, although he still has not paid the f ine set
for him, namely $100,000, so that he c~~n be transferred to a prison in his own
country.
Finally, the Minister said, "I hope the hunger strikers will stop their action, as
this will not produce positive results. What is more, I understand them from the
human standpoint; however, I am not going to interfere with the Judicial Police,
even though I know the inmates are in less than desirable prisons."
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. PERU
BRIEFS
PIP NARCOTICS' OPERATIONS--Gen Berly Baca Valdivia, director of the Peruvian
investigative police narcotics department, yesterday reported that a total of
3,000 kg of cocaine paste and 100 kg of cocaine hydrochloride, which are valued
at $120 million in the internationl market, were seized in 1981. He added that
100 foreigners and 2,000 Peruvians were detained on charges of involvement in ~
drug trafficking. [Lima EXPRESO in Spanish 23 Dec 81 p 25 PY]
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~ LARGE COCAINE HAUL MADE AT AIRPORT
Cairo AL-AIQiBAR in Arabie 4 Dec 81 p 5
/Article: "Attempt To Smuggle 50,000 Pounds' Worth of Cocaine through Female
Passenger in Airport Thwarted
/TexC/ Investigators at Cairo airport thwarted the first attempt to smuggle quan-
tities of cocaine worth an estimated 50,000 pounds in the possession of a female
passenger coming from the $udan.
Information react~ed Brig Gen Sami al-~Awani, director of the criminal invest�igation
department, that a smuggler would make an attempt to smuggle volumes of the nar-
cotic cocaine, using a female passenger arrivi.ng on a Sudanese airplane.
Col Ahmad Abu-al-'Ala, head of the investigation department, set out a plan in
which Lt Col Shawqi Isma~il and Maj Nabil Abu Raydah took part, where passengers
on the Sudanese airplane were monitored upon their arrival and suspicious persons
were identified. The female passenger was arrested when narcotics were discovered
in a plastic bag she was carrying by hand. During the investigation made by
Lt Col 'Ali Fawzi, she said that a passenger at Khartoum Airport had asked her to
take the bag because he had many suitcases with him and said that he would take it
- fram her at Cairo sirport as soon as the plane arrived. However, she could not
make h3m out among the passengers and was surprised to see that the bag contained
quantities of the narcotic cocaine.
Maj Gen 'Abd-al-Muhsin Faraj, security director at the airport, decided to transfer
the passenger to the office of the prosecutor on the charge of bringing in narcot-
ics and�trying to smuggle them into the country.
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BIG CACHE OF DRUGS, VALUABLES UNEARTHED IN AL-MA'ADI
Cairo AL-AICI~AR in Arabic 12 Dec 81 p 7
/Article: "Seizure of 2 Million Pounds~ Worth of Opium under a Dry Cleaner's Bed
in al-Ma'adi"/
/Text/ Yesterday al-Ma'adi investigators seized 70 kilograms of raw hashish and
~ 32 kilograms of opium worth 2 million pounds under a dry-cleaner's bed in aZ-I~a-adi
that had been stored on behalf of a drug dealer in al-Batiniyah.
The dealer had handed the narcotics over to the dry cleaner the evening he was ar-
rested in an old car. He gave him 100 pounds for storing it for him, pramising
him another 100 pounds when taking delivery of the packages in order to distribute
them on New Year's Eve. A1-Jamaliyah investigators also seized 20 kilograms of
silver and silver work that three persons had been accused of stealing from seven
shops in Khan al-Khalili and al-Saghah. The value of the stolen objects came to
50,000 pounds. In al-2aytun, investigators arrested a worker on the charge of
stealing from 19 apartments in al-Hada~iq, al-Sharabiyah, al-Wayili, al-Zawiyah
al-Hamra' and al-Zaytun. .
The value of the thefts was estimated at 10,000 pounds-. Nabawi Isma'il, the
~ deputy prime minister and minister of the interior, observed the materials seized,
praised the efforts of the officers who had taken pgrt 3n the three cases, and de-
creed that 5,000 pounds were to be paid out to the officers taking part in the
three cases, that 5,000 pounds were to be disbursed to the officers taking part in
the narcotics case and that 1,000 Qounds would be given to officers taking part in
the silver and residency %burglary/ cases. The accused were transferred to the
- relevant prosecutors' offices for investigation.
- The instructions of Maj Gen Salah Amin, director of Cairo security, to Brig Gens
'Abbas al-'Asi, director of criminal investigation, and 'Abd-al-Hadi Mukhaymir,
head of the criminal invest ga o, w e to aeize the drug hideouts in the capital
in order to eliminate the hashish and opiuan the dealers were bringing in to dis-
tribute over the holidays. Investigations by Cols Sulayman Majdi, assistant in-
vestigation chief for tl:^ south, and Nabil al-'Arabi, Z investigative team in-
spector, revealed that a dry cleaner had recenCly taken up residence in the al-
Batiniyah area who had suspicious activities in the area. Lt Col Sabri Kamil,
Ma3s Sa'id Zaki, chief of investigation in the district, Husayn al-Qadi and 'Abd-
al-'Aziz 'Uthman, assistant investigator, and Capt Yasir Sultan attacked the dry
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~lca:.~r's hcma yesterday at dawn and unearthed 70 kilograms of hashish and 30
kilograms of opium hic?den under his bed in the house. He was arrested and it was
determined that he was operating as a person storing materiaZs for a narcotics
dealer in al-Batiniyah and that he had taken up residence in al-Ma'adi to escape
the notice of investigation personnel. The value of the narcotics seized has been
estimated at /illegible/ million pounds.
It was decided to give the people particip ating in this case a ieward oF 5,000
pounds.
In another a~ea, al-Jamaliyah investigators arrested an unemployed person and two
mechanics on the charge of stealing 20 kilograms of silver arbd other silver wrought
objects from seven shops in Khan al-Khalili and al-Saghah with a value estimated
at 50,000 pounds. Taking part in the arrest of the accused and return of the
stole;z goods w~~re Col Muhammad 'Abd-al-Nabi, inspector with the investigative force,
Lt Col 'Ala' Muqallad, and Majs Mahmud Ibrahim, chief of al-Jamaliyah investigation,
and 'Isam al-Kashif, assistant investigator. The three accused were handed over
to the office of the al-Jamaliyah prosecutor for investigation. In al-Zaytun, Col
'Isam Najm, Lt Col Sa'id 'Abd-al-Hadi, insp ector with the investigative force, and
Cols Hazim al-Hamaqi and 'Abd-al-Hayy Isma~il arrested an unemployed person on the
charge of burglarizing res~.dences in the areas of al-Hada'iq, al-Sharabiyah, al-
, Zaytun, al-Wa'ili and al-Zawiyah al-Hamra'. The accused confessed to committing
19 burglaries of electrical appliances, fans,tape recorders and television sets.
The value of the stolen objects wa~ estimated at 10,000 pounds. The accused was
handed over to the prosecutor's office for investigation.
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EGYPT
BIG DRUG TRANSACTION THWARTED
Cairo AL-AHRAM in Arabic 26 Dec 81 p i4
/Article: "A 132,000-Pound Cash Deposit for a Narcotics transaction!'/
/Text% A narcotics dealer reached agreement An a hashish transaction and prepared
a deposit after examining a sample himself. Before proceeding to receive it, prior
to beginning carrying out the transaction, anti-narcotics personnel headed him off,
thwarting the operation before it began and seizing the three leather bags contain-
ing the deposit, which was seen to be 132,000 pounds. The tax /suthorities / were
notified to take account of the illegal swindle..
At the outset, Cairo security department narcotics agencies received information
through their ongoing investigation on the circumstances of same big smugg lers and
dealers in the al-Batiniyah area to the effect that they had prepared a p lan to
smuggle large quantities of narcotics that they recently managed to bring ia fram
abroad to meet the def3.cit in the market an~d f lood the country.
Investigations by Lt Col Hamdi al-Jazzar, inspector in the narcotics section, con-
firmed that some naraotics dealers headed by Mustafa Darwish had reached agreement
to purchase a quantity of hashish from smugglers' stores in the Bilbays area, and
they collectsd large amounts of cash which they set aside as the price for the
purchase.
Last week some meetings among some smugglers in the Bilbays area and dealers in
al-Batiniyah were recorded in the suburbs of Hiliopolis.~ A successful att empt was
made to infil.trate them and learn about their movements, on the basis of a plan
- supervised by Ma~ Gen Salah Amin, the security director, and Brig Gen 'Abbas al-
'Asi, the director of criminal investigation, and coimnanded by Brig Gen Mahir
Hasan, the head of the narcotics section: Col 'Abd-al-Rahman Sa'ud3., assistant
chief of the section, disguised himself in peasant garb, presented himself to a
narcotics dealer as a well-known dealer from Upper Egypt, and reached agreement
with him to buy part of the purchase that was to be provided for distribut ion on
the occasion of the holidays. The dealer offered the disguised officer a sample
of this transaction, informed him that he had readied a down paycnent for i t, and
specified to him a time for handing over the quanCity of nar~cotics in a deserted
location near the desert in Bilbays after it was handed over. The necess ary
measures were made to take the smugglers on at any moment in the fear that they
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might discover the identity q� the ~fficer and lure him in order to take revenge
against him. The area and the approaches to it were surrounded. However, the
dealer requested a postponement of the delivery time, then returned and made
another request for a postponement. When Lt Gen Mahir Hasan felt that he was pro-
. crastinating, a force headed by Lt Col Tal'at Mansur and Capts Muhsin Shawqi and
'Asim al-Shadhili attacked the apartments of Che dealer Mustafa Darwish in
_ Heliopolis, of one of the major dealers in al-Batiniyah, Sayyid 'Abd-al-'Aziz, and
of Shafiq Isma'il, nep~ews of the former. Three leather bags were seized in the
latter person's dweiling in al-Jamaliyah inside which large bundles of Egyptian
money and a big block of hashish which was apparently from the share that his
brother had presented to the officer were concealed. That was recorded in the
investigations and seizures ledger.
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I1~NSE VOLUME OF ARUGS~ PILLS SEIZED
Cairo AL-AHRAM in Arabic 27 Dec 81 p 10
/Article by Husayn Ghanim: "1 Million Pounds' Worth of Narcotics and Pi11s Seized!'/
/Text/ Yesterday at dawn Cairo investigative agencies managed to seize a new ship- .
ment of narcotics that a waman had hidden in her hame in al-Darrasah, and another
in a storage area in al-Jamaliyah, both being kept on behalf of big smugglers.
The narcotics and pi11s seized were valued at 1 million pounds. Inforroation dis-
closed that some major smugglers and narcotics dealers in al-Jamaliyah were carry-
ing out unusual activities on the occasion of t'he celebrations of Christ's birth-
day, New Year's and Christmas and that they had brought large shipments of narcotics
prior to distributing them in conjunction with some of their assistants.
In the light of ~this information, which was received by Col Muha~anad 'Ab~i-al-Nabi,
inspector in the investigation department, and Capt Muhaam~ad Farahat, head of in-
vestigations in al-Darb al-Ahmar, Maj Gen Salah Amin, directar of security, de-
manded that the investigation be continued and that it be determined what persons
were behind the activities of importing from abroad and what their identities were.
In accordance with directives from Muham~nad Nabawi Isma'il, deputy prime minister
and minister of the interior, orders were given to follow up on Che storage areas
and all possible smuggling routes and camplete the sudden strike that took place
2 weeks ago with the seizure of a storage area belonging to a ma~or narcotics
dealer in al-Ma'adi.
A plan was set forth under the supervision of Brig Gen 'Abbas al-'Asi, director of
investigation, Brig Gen 'Abd-al-Hadi Mukhaymir, head of investigation, and Col
Muhammad ai-Sayyid, assistant chief of investigation, whereby Lt Col 'Ala' Muqallad
and Capt 'Imad 'Abd-al-'A1 disguised themselves and recorded meetings with some
dealers and smugglers by various technical meanS, reaching agreement on transfer-
ing large amounts that had been smuggle3 from their storage areas in desert areas
recently on behalf of the smuggler Mustafa Marzuq and putting them back in storage
in al-Darrasah and al-Jamaliyah. Surveillance over the area com~inued; at the
� specified time yesterday at dawn a force attacked the dwelling of a marri~d wcxnan
named Khayriyah 'Abd-al-'Aziz 'Ali, 37, on Sikkat al-Mardani Street; there, i:wo
large sacks filled with packages of "fine dust" and "new year" brand hashish in
the form of tablets were seized. The accused woman confessed that they belonged
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to tha smu~gler Mustafa Marzuq and that he had reached agreement with her on storing
them on hia account, prior to distributing them over the holidays, in exchange for
a sum of money.
At the same time, narcotics department agencies under the supervision of Brig Gen
Mahir Hasan, chief of the department, and Lt Col Hamdi al-Jazzar, managed to seize
other quantities of hashish packets in the residence of Rida Ramadan Ahmad, known
as Nazajah, labelled "June" and "New Year;" she confessed to storing them for the
account of the children of Nassar.
All the quantities seized were appraised at 1 million pounds, and the prosecutor's
office ordered the accused to be jailed.
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~
MASSIVE NARCOTICS STASH UNEARTHED
Cairb AL-AHRAM in Ar~bic 30 Dec 81 p 10
/Article ~ Husayn Ghanim: "Smuggling of Narcotics Worth 1.5 Million Pounds
Thwarted"/
/Text/ Yesterday at dawn narcotics department agencies in the Cairo security de-
partment thwarted the biggest of narcotics smuggling operations, valued at 1.25
million pounds, at the approaches to Jabal 'Ataqah on the Cairo-Suez desert road.
The narcotics had been hidden in flood control tunnels. After the area was sur-
rounded by large forces, large sacks filled with packets of hashish were seized
and a bedoeiin smuggler was arrested. A narcotics dealer was also seized in the
act of distributing %an amount/ estimated at a quarter of a million pounds /in
value/.
Information had shown that some smugglers had managed to bring large amounts of
narco~ics in via Jabal 'Ataqah in Suez and had reached agreement with some ac-
cou~l~ces to store them in areas near Cairo so that it would subsequently be easy
to transport them prior to distributing them to dealers at different periods.
They settled on an approach %to the hill/ in the Kilometer 26 area, where packages
~ of smuggled narcotics were hidden in same tunnels that had been constructed to
drai:n off floods.
In the light of this information, Maj Gen Salah Amin, the security director, pre-
pared a plan for surrounding this area with large forces because of~the dangerous
nature of the smugglers. Numerous ambushes wer~ also laid in the entrances and
approaches of the roads to watch over their movements under the supervision oE
Col 'Abd-al-Ratunan Sa'udi, assistant head af the narcotics section, and Lt Col
Tal'at Mansur, after it was confirmed that they had been attempting to transfer
_ narcotics from the areas where they were being kept at the first light of dawn
yesterday. One of the smugglers set up a temporary dwelling near the region to
prevent the approach of any security forces. After this inforniation had been ob-
tained, the large forces moved at dawn yesterday under the comcnand of Brig Gen
'Abbas aI-'Asi, director of criminal investigations, Brig Gen Mahir Hasan, chief
of the narcotics department, Lt Col Hamli al-Jazzar, and Majs Muhsin Shawqi and
'Asim al-Shadhili. The roads and approaches were sealed off and survey operations
were carried out over a b~pad area by metal pr~b.e_~. A number of lar~ sa~.ks th~t
had been filled with packets of hashish and buried were unearthed, and a smuggler
named 'Abdallah Mushrif Sa'id, a bedouin, was arrested. He confessed to storing
that for the account of his brother, who was a smuggler.
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EGYPT
- BIG NORTH CQAST DRUG HAUL DESCRIBED
Cgiro AL-AKHBAR in Arabic 12 Dec 81 p 7
/Article by Faruq al-Shadhili and Munir al-Masiri: "Seizure of 12 Tons of
NarcoCics Worth 40 Million Pounds
/Text/ Border Guard forces have succeeded in blocking three attempts to smuggle
narcotics into the country. The first ~attem~t was at Sidi Rarir in Alexandria,
the second was on Che coast at Dumyat and the third was in Sinai. The forces man-
aged to arrest 12 suspects, including five Turks. The narcotics seized, which
totalled 12 tons, have been valued at 40 million pounds.
Information hae been provided concerning smugglers' attempts to bring quantities
of narcotics into new areas to malce up for the failures they had encountered in
past months and the grievous losses incurred by the frustration of their activi-
ties. Information had reached Brig Gen Wahbi Ibrahim Muha~ad Habib, director of
- coastal intelligence, that smugglers' launches car~ying narcotics were about to
arrive; the information was presented to Maj Gen A/H 'Ali Faruq al-Sahn, commander
' of the Border Guard forces, and plans were set forth to seize them.
A Launch and Five Turks
The day before y~s*.erday evening, passing in territorial waters before the coast
at Sidi Karir, Border /Guard/ launches observed the~resence o~ a launch and rub-
ber dinghy. These were surrounded by Border %Guard/ launches and were taken over,
and five persons who had Turkish citizenship and 277 packages of narcotics with an
estimated weight of 10 tons were arrested. They admitted that they had loaded
them on at the port of Tripoli. The name of the launch was (Iks Trkawish) (two
friends). The five Turks were Hikmat Rashid Maltah, Tahsin Sadiq Aslan, Thabit
Balal Tamaskan, Murjan 'Ali Hamdi Juiliaughli and Shabib 'Adil Balatsh.
- The narcotics prosecutor's o~fice has taken charge of the investigation under the
supervision of Counsellor Malunud al-Hinnawi, the public lawyer.
A Second Attempt at Dumyat
At the same time, smugglers made another attempt in the Jadlah Abu al-Rus area
gast of Dumyat; they fled after being fired upon. The following evening the launch
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came back, approaching the al-Karakah area east of Dumyat, but Border Guard and
Border Intelligence personnel did not permit the smugglers to carry out the
smuggling operation, and they jettisoned the launch's cargo and fled to the open
sea. Fifty-eight packages of narcotics were seized weighing 2,200 kilograms worth
7 million pounds. Six suspects were arrested--Salah 'Ali Hasan Nawwar, Jamal
Muhammad al-Dassuqi, Fawzi Mukhtar, 'Ali al-Tabi'i Badr, Salah Mukhtar al-Dassuqi,
and Mansur Sabit Muhammad al-Nabbish. The office of the prosecuCOr has taken
charge of the investigation.
65 Kilograms of Opium in Sinai
Border Guard members also managed to seize a rubber dinghy along the coast north
of Baluzah in Sinai and seized 65 kilagrsms of opium worth 4 million pounds along
with a suspect named Hassan al-Sayyid Sayyid al-Lawandi.
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IRAN
HUNDREDS OF KILOGRAMS OF HEROIN, OPIUM REPORTED SEIZED
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 17 Jan 82 p 15
[Excerpt] Officers and officials of the Antinarcotics Department of the National
Police have seized 940 kilograms of heroin and 350 kilograms of opium from a band
of international smugglers.
Hojjatoleslam Nateq-Nuri, minister of the interior, inspected the narcotics seized
and while thanking the officials of the Antinarcotics Department who had succeeded
in making this important haul, said: "If this seizure has been made under impos-
sible conditions and a task on the road of God fulfilled, it is because a hero was
come to life, a hero who is loved and honored by you and me."
According to this report, at 1100 hours yesterday morning during ceremonies attend-
ed by Brother Nateq-Nuri, minister of the interior, Co1,Seyyed Ibrahim Iiejazi,
chief of the National Police and members of the Supervisory Council of Prisoners,
the minister of the interior and his associates inspected the narcotics which had
been seized.
At the beginning of these ceremonies, Col Bakhtegan, chief of the Antinarcotics
Department of the National Police pointed out, in particular, the details of
arresting the leader of a big international band of smugglers, named Haj Abdolghani
Zahi (also known as Allahdad), and tha.t the narcotics were seized by Team Eight on
the northeastern border of the country.
Then regarding the reasons for the spread of narcotics and methods of combatting
this international plague, he stressed more control of the borders, the existence
of the Afghan refugees, unemployment is deprived provinces, the war imposed by
Iraq, and other matters with attention to how they could be combatted in the fight
against smuggling narcotics. He then asked the minister of the interior to issue
the necessary orders for appropriate housing for the Antinarcotics Department of
- the National Police and more equipment for the personnel of this department.
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BRIEFS
TEHRAN NARCOTICS HAUL--The antidrug squads of Tehran, Mashhad and Bandar 'Abbas
have seized 1,711 kg of heroin, opium and hashish from a number of international
drug smugglers during the past 2 months. [GF091210 Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 31 Jan
82 p 4]
FARS DRUG SEIZURE--The Shiraz antidrug squad has seized 6.5 kg of heroin from two
Afghans. The Khoramabad Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has seized 6,240 kg of
opium from a number of persons. [GF091210 Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian 31 Jan 82
- p 3]
KASHAN DRUG SEIZURE--The Kashan antidrug squad has seized 1.029 kg of heroin from a
number of persons, The Mashhad antidrug squad has seized 1.5 kg of opium from an
individual [GF091210 Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian 31 Jan 82 p 11]
KHORAMABAD DRUG SEIZURE--The Khoramabad antidrug squad has sezied 179.5 kg of
Afghan opium, 80 grams of heroin and 20 kg of hashish. The Ham3dan antidrug squad
has seized 2.702 kg of narcotics from six persons�. [GF091210 Tehran ETTELA'AT in
Persian 30 Jan 82 p 13]
MASHHAD, ZAHEDAN HEROIN HAULS--Mashhad: The Public Relations Office of the
Antinarcotics Headquarters of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Islamic
Revolution [IR] in Mashhad, in a meeting with the Islamic Republic News
Agency in Mashhad announced that during the last few days, as a result of
the utmost efforts of this headquarters, a quantity of 300 kilograms of stick
opium, three G-3 rifles, three Brenn guns, 60 cartridges and 15 million rials
in cash were seized from a large group of narcotics traffickers in the
- township of Sabzevar. According to this report, again the Revolution Guards
of the Antinarcotics Headquarters of the IR Public Prosecutor's Office of
Mashhad seized 7 kilograms of heroin from four persons by the names of
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, son of Yusef; Hoseyn Abbasi, son of Gol Mohammad;
'Ali Akbar Kalateh (known as Holva'yi), son of Gholam Hoseyn Varamzan;
and Ramazan Hojashteh, son of Hoseyn--all of whom were booked and turned over
to the IR Public Prosecutor's Office. Zahedan: Also, a quantity of 7.50 kilo-
grams of narcotics were seized by the Antinarcotics Headquarters of Zahedan
from two persons in this city. According to the report of the Islamic
Republic News Agency, the culprits were 5hukufeh Fuladi, child of Feridun,
_ who was arrested with 2.50 kilograms of opium; and 'Abdollah Barahavi, son of
Safar, who was arrested with 5 kilograms of hashish--both of whom were booked
and turned over to th e IR Public Prosecutor's Office in Zahedan. [TextJ
[Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian 24 Jan 82 p 4]
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
LARGEST DRUG RAID IN COUNTRY'S HISTORY DETAILED
al-Shariqah AL-KHALIJ in Arabic 22 Dec 81 p 5
[Article by Mahir al-Kiyali: "Destruction of Largest Quantity of Drugs on State
Level in al-Shariqah"]
[Text] A large quantity of drugs was destroyed on the state 1eve1 in al-Shariqah.
Destroyed were 200 kg of hashish, opium, kat and narcotic pi11s.
Also destroyed were about 30 crates of bottles and cans of alcoholic beverages of
various types, in addition to a large quantity of pornographic pictures, magazines
and other materials, including videotapes.
In addition to that, orders were issued to destroy other confiscated material such
as playing cards, clothing seized in morals cases and quantities of cigarettes,
in view of their immorality.
A number of books of witchcraft and magic seized in various cases were also
destroyed.
The committee supervising the destruction was headed by Hafiz Tahbub, head of the
district attorney's office in al-Shariqah, with 'Abd-al-Wahhab 'Abdul and 'Abd-
_ al-Rahman Muhammad 'Ali as members.
At 10 am the aforementioned quantities were transported in two police cars from
the district attorney's headquarters to the industrial zone, where the alcoholic
beverages were entirely destroyed in an open area.
First Lt 'Ali al-Mazruqi and lst Lt 'Ali Khalfan from al-Shariqah police, Asad
'Abdallah and Amin Muhammad al-Qadi from the district attorney's office and a
number of policemen helped to carry out the order to destroy this material, under
the supervision of the head of the district attorney's office as chairman of the
committee overseeing the operation.
- The cammittee then transported the drugs to the factory of Fatim in the industrial
zone, where the drugs were 3estroyed in one of the iron amelters used by the
factory.
The quantities destroyed had been seized in a number of cases in which the accused
had been sentenced to prison terms of varying len~ths. The case of Muhammad Yamin
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Qadr Khan (a~Pakistani) and 'Ali Muhammad Sadiq (Iranian) took first place for
the quantity of hashish seized in their possession on 24 March 1980. They had
brought it in through a drug dealer from Pakistan for dealers in al-Shariqah,
and 156 kg were seized.
On 29 March 1981, the civil court of al-Shariqah sentenced both of the accused
to 5 years in prison, after which they would be deported. The drugs were to be
confiscated and destroyed by the proper authorities. ~
The accused appealed the decision, but on 22 April the appellate court upheld the
_ ruling.
On 1 December the Court of Cassation in Abu Dhabi supported the two previous
decisions, ruling as follows: The court has decided to reject the appeal and orders
the challengers to pay court costs.
The facts of this case are outlined here as they come out in the investigation and
as told to me by the accused. On 25 December 1979, al-Shariqah's police received
information that the two accused were dealing in drugs. The police drew up a
plan, and sent two detectives to make an agreement to have the two suspects procure
1,000 kg of narcotics at a price of 4,000 dirhams per kilogram. Muhammad Yamin
asked for a delay to reach agreement with his friend 'Ali Muhammad.
The two accused then met with the detectives in a hotel in al-Shariqah to conclude
the deal. They promised ro smuggle the desired quantity from Pakistan by a launch
operating by way of (Khorfkhan). It would be met by another launch to receive
the drugs on the high seas.
After the detectives had met with the accused several times in al-Shariqah and
Dubai, the two smugglers traveled to Pakistan in March to obtain the drugs. There
they met with a dealer named Lal Shirah and asked him to supply the.desired
quantity. He told them that he already had 160 kg in Dubai which he could deliver
until the remaining quantity was available.
As soon as the two parties reached agreement, the dealer and the first accused left
Pakistan and went to Duabi to obtain the quantity there, and the dealer returned to
Pakistan immediately to inform the.second accused of the completion of the transfer.
The second accused then returned to Dubai, and the two contacted the detectives
to turn over the portion which they had obtained. The date and place for the
delivery were set.
The rendezvous was a rental car lot in Dubai, from which the four men drove to the
industrial zone in al-Shariqah to complete the delivery. As soon as ~he operation
began, the police, who had surrounded the spot, caught the accused redhanded, and
under interrogation they acknowledged the facts related above.
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DENMARK
POLICE DRUG PATROL CHIEF: CHRISTIANIA TO HAGE LONG IMPACT
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 3 Dec 81 p 2
[Article by Anders Wiig]
[Text] "A new generation of hard-core drug abusers is heing created in Christiania.
When one talks out there about eliminating the hard-core drug addicts and dealers
in hard stuff in the area, it reflects a double standard of morality," says Police
Commissioner Ove Nielsen, chief of the drug patrol of Copenhagen`s police.
The police commissioner refused to comment directly on the agreement of the minister
of justice, Ole Espersen, with the inhabitants of Christiania to restrict the
sale of hashish and the minister's rejection of the claim that Christiania is a
centPr for narcotics and crime. But Ove Nielsen and his assistants can subscribe
completely to the minister's view of the so-called free city as a center for the
hashish traffic. And like so many other people with extensive experience in combating
narcotics, the police commissioner sees a clear connection between the misuse of
hashish and the use af the so-called hard substances.
Hence, he describes the action of the inhabitants against hard substances as a double
standard.
He says, "We know that hashish smoking is a social phenomenon. Difficulties in making
contacts, inferiority complexes and other personal problems can lead children and
young people to groups of hashish addicts. And from that, many slip automatically
in the misuse of, for example, Pakistanian morphine pills, heroiu and cocaine, which
we are also increasingly encountering in the more traditional hashish and'narcotic
environments. I have not met among my colleagues, social workers and others with
experience in these matters, any one who challenges the argument that the narcotics
addict who resorts to injections began by smoking hashish. Thus, a new generation
of injection addicts is being created in Christiania."
.In addition, hashish is dangerous enough in itself--among other reasons, because
the effects of intoxication last very long. In smoking has`:.~h, the accumulation of
the poisonous substance THC (tetrahydrocanabinal) takes plact+ in the body system
in such a way part of the effects of a hashish binge can be maintained from one
weekend to the next.
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On Tuesday evening the drug patrol made a raid in Christiania. In 20 minutes 17
- people were arrested, and 50 grams of hashish worth 50 kroner a gram, were confiscated.
The arrested included three Norwegians, two Swedes, and two Finns. Six people were
on the wanted list, including three Norwegians and a Finn.
Eight juveniles were arrested at "The Ma.d House," among them a 14-year old boy with
29 grams of hashish. He had run away from a reformatory.
Ove Nielsen: "It is normal at 'The Mad House,' 'Valmuen' and the other joints out
there for us to encounter many school pupils sitting smoking hashish."
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DENMARK
GREENLAND YOUTH HARD HIT BY DRUGS IN COPENHAGEN 'FREE CITY'
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 21 Jan.82 p 1
~
~Article by Kirsten Sorrigl
- [Text] Kofoeds School and the Greenland Children's Society are working to set
up a crisis center for Greenlanders. The crisis center wi11 probably be ready
for use in 1982 and will be located in a Copenhagen institution formerly used for
a similar purpose.
"There is a great need for the crisis center. In the last few years there has
heen an explosion in the number of young Greenlanders who are going under," said
principal Jens Aage Bjorkoe.
A few years ago 6 percent of the students at Kofoe3s School were Greenlanders.
Today young Greenlanders make up 20 percent and they also represent the students
with the most problems.
- "About 1 young Greenland man out of 20 in the 20-24-year-old age group is a stu-
dent here now. The unfortunately high number reflects a collapse of the~Green-
land culture and the rootlessness and identity crisis of the young people there.
Nearly all our Greenland students have suffered a serious defeat in their grow-
ing years or in the course of their studies. They have sunk to the bottom and
their future prospects are very poor unless they are resocialized into the Green-
land community," said principal Bjorkoe.
He estimated that Kofoeds School comes in contact with around 400 Greenlanders in
the course of a year and that most come from the hardest section of Christiania.
- He has the impression that only a few of them are injectin~ narcotics but that
almost all of them have serious prob~er,?s with other intoxicants such as hashish,
~ alcohol and various types of inedicine.
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DENMARK
BRIEFS
INTERNATIONAL HASHISH SMUGGLING GANG BROKEN--In a big new hashish case, four men,
25 to 28 years of age, were imprisoned yesterday after a closed court session in
Dommervagten. They were charged with smuggling hashish in from Morocco on several
occasions. On Monday the narcotics police moved in and confiscated about 10 kilograms
- of hashish in an apartmentin Amager, where three of the individuals charged were
arrested. The fourth was arrested while he was waiting for a~middleman dealer, but
was instead~waylaid by the police. Bent Hansen, criminal police commissioner, says,
. "The action was carried out after cooperation among the police and customs adminis-
_ trations of Germany, France and Denmark. Some evidence indicates that a po rtion
of the stuff was to be sold in Christiania." [Text] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE
7Dec81p3] 6893
CHRISTIANIA DRUG SEIZURES--Criminal police commissioner Ove Nielsen says that police
drug patrols have since the beginning of the year confiscated narcotic subs tances
- in Christiania worth about 7.1 million kroner, including hashish worth 6 million
kroner. The quantity of confiscated substances has just been totaled ~p fo r a meeting
today between riot patrol staff and the minister of justice, Ole Espersen. In all
1.8 grams of heroin, 2.8 kilograms of marijuana, 7.7 grams of raw opium, 7.3 grams of
amphetamines, 2.2 grams of hashish oil, 14 morphine taUlets, 43 LSD pills, 36 grams
_ of psilocybin mushrooms--they have tlie same effect as LSD--and almost 28 kilograms
of various cannabis products. There have been 910 arrests, of which 80 we re people
under 18 years of age. There were among those arrested 57 foreigners who were
deported for violation of previous deportation orders. Another 125 were deported
because they were in possession of stuff. One hundred seventeen of the fore igners
were Swedes, of which 98 were in possession of stuff. In addition, Olve Nielsen
made known that a search of houses in Christiania is beginning, in order to uncover
the traffic in hard substances. Three men were arrested the other day in an apartment,
in which all the paraphernalia for dealing was found. One of those arreste d ~:as
in possession of 0.4 grams of heroin. [Text.] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in
Danish 8 Dec 81 p 8] 6893
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- URU(; 'I'RAI)INC--"Hard narcotics continue to be traded daily witllin a rather closed
circle in Christianiz, and Christianianites themselves estimate that 20 kilograms
of ha~shish, valued at 1 million kroner, are being sold daily," according to Tommy
Agerskov Thomsen, chairman of the Copenhagen Police Association. The association
chairman is "surprised, not shaken" about the justice minister's agreement with
ChYistianianites to limit the trade. He said in RADIOAVISEN this evening that
cocaine and LSD are being sold from a kind of satellite storage near Christiania.
But due to special working conditions, police have not been able to break this trade.
Some 47 policemen were assaulted in Christiania during the last 2 1/2 to 3 months.
Criminal commissioner Bent Hansen, assistant chief of narcotics police, told
BERLINGSKE: "We have not had any concrete evidence of hard ~rug:: in Christiania
for some time. Recently we arrested some people in connection with the hashish
trade in Christiania and I personally asked these addicts: "Tell me the truth.
Are there hard drugs in Christiania or not?" One who is out there every day an-
swered: "Yes, of course, there are." The commissioner said the following about
the hashish trade in Christiania: "The extent of it is quite unacceptable and
society cannot continue to ignore it." [Te::t] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in
Danish 6 Dec 81 p 1J 8952
DRUG F:4ID IN CHRISTIANIA--Eight were arrested when the riot patrol and license en-
- Corcement police raided "the free city" Christiania about noon. The move was
directed against what police call "the illicit pubs" Woodstock and Madhuset. ,
Throughout the raid, police were surrounded by 50 to 100 Christianianites who
loudly expressed their opinion about society in general and police in particular.
Howeve~, there was no violence. Among those arrested were 2 Swedes, one of them--
a girl--carrying 11,000 I:roner she could not account for; a Norwegian with 10.5
grams of hashish in his possession and a formerly deported Finn. When police arrived
at Lotushuset, people there fled in panic, but a smaller amount of hashish was
' found on the floor. About 40 persons tried t-o barricade themselyes inside Madhuset,
but opened up when police got reinforcements. At Madhuset, too, police found hash-
ish, both on people and in the middle of the floor. While making the drug raid,
license enforcement police also took an inventory of the liquor in stock at the two
- Christiania pubs. [Text] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 18 Dec 81 pt II
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DENMARK/GREENLAND
BRIEFS . ~
HASHISH, MARIHUANA TRAFFICKING--Police in Nuuk (Godthab) are in the process of
winding up a big case that includes the sale of hashish and marijuana, home-
brewed alcohol and ration stamps for beer, wine and alcohol. So far two young
men have been detained in connection with the case which came to the attention
of the police recently in the context of sales of home-brewed alcohol in Nuuk.
A search of the homes of the two young men revealed a large stockpile of hashish
and marijuana. ~Text] [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 14 Jan 82 p 2~
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FRANCE
BRIEFS
CUSTOMS 'SMASH' SMUGGLING NETWORK--Paris, 1 Feb (AFP)--French customs smashed a
cannabis smuggling network over the weekend with the arrest of 11 South Americans
following a tipoff by the International Police Organisation "Interpol," police
announced here today. Dutch police advised Interpol of a shipment of 200 kilos
(440 lbs) worth one million francs (about $190,000) and French police traced the
consignment to an address ~ust outside Paris. The cannabis was brought to France
by ship, and the idea was to sell a small amount in France, and have the rest taken
by two South Americans to the Netherlands. The arrest of the couple, Gustavo
Curiel--Guadalupe and Armantina Curiel-Gomez, both 25, who~are naturalised Dutch
subjects--led to other members of the gang. One of them, a Spaniard, was found with
traces of cocaine in the double bottom of his suitcase. The others who were arrested
- are Colombian and Venezuelan nationals. They have all been charged with drug
trafficking and jailed to await trial. [Text] [NC011913 Paris AFP in English
1506 GMT 1 Feb 82] ~
HASHISH SEIZED AT ORLY AIRPORT--Paris, 25 Jan (AFP)--Customs officers seized
84 kilos (184 lbs) of hashish in the luggage of three Zairian nationals on their
arrival Saturday at Lrly International Airport, police announced today. The drug
was hi~?uen in the false bottoms of suitcases. The three, all residents of the Paris
region, had flown in from Lisbon. They will appear before a court later today.
Police named them as Dr Lumpungu Kalondji, 39, his wife Angeline, 25, and a friend
Buku Kinkela, whose name was not given. [Text] [NC251017 Paris AFP in English
0938 GMT 25 Jan 82]
ISRAELI HEROIN DEALERS ARRESTED--Paris, 22 Jan (AFP)--Five Isrleli heroin dealers
~ who attempted to set up operations in France have been arrested by investigators
of the French Narcotics Bureau, authoritative sources said today. [Words
indistinct] was the first (?time a) group of Israelis, (?d~.rected) by Israeli drug
dealers in Los Angeles, California, had tried to set up a base in Paris. The group
had previously tried to operate out of Frankfurt, West Germany, but were driven out
by the mainly Turkish competition. Police were aware of the group for more than a
year but investivation of its activities was finally triggered by the arrest last
- November in Israel of an American carrying 2.4 [words indistinct] of heroin. The
Israelis were arrested here while awaiting a shipment of (?Middle East heroin from
~ Amsterdam). [Text] [NC221910 Paris AFP in English 1851 GMT 22 Jan 82]
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GREEC~
ATHENS, PIR.AEUS DRUG RING MII"ID~..S ARHESTID
Athens TO VIMA in C~eek 12 Jan 82 p 1
/l~ccerpt] Two drug pushing gangs (heroin and hashish) were broken up"by the
~iraeus~olice which arrested 16 pereons. lhe two police "operations" were carried
out almost simultaneous],y laet Friday~ in Plaka and Agia Barbars of Aigaleo.
The boldiaess of the one gang dealing with haehish exceeds all limita since a
"tent" ~thich served as a distribution...center ~tae aet up in the churct~ard of
Ag3a Earbara, obvious~y to avoid arouaing a~y 8uapici.ons! The police raid Nas
_ launched after ma~y days of systematic surveillanae and reaulted in the arrest oY
the gang leaders and their pushers and in seizing 15 "tablets" of high quality
hashish weighing 120 grams. Also~ in a hiding place at the Katrantzos lot on
Stadiou Street, the police found additional hashish follo~ing a disclosure by
- gang leader T. Xagoraris, 27, a dealer in ol~ goods. Those arreated, including
Xagoraris, are A. Psarologos,~stree~t peddler, 36, Kh. Kiakhopouloe, street peddler~
23, the gqps~ xomen E. Stolidou, V. Karpeli, Anth. Kot~ias and the gypsies P.
Kyzis, N. Monast3.riotis and Khr. Antlreou. Three more peraone are bein~ sought.
The "tent" in Agia Barbara vas being v3sited daily to "agerits" of %agoraris and
Psarologos ~rho apparently worked in the past xith G. Vartelatos, aliss "the
Seagull," a drug dealer now in 3ai1 awaiting trial. Psarologoe ~ras $upplied ~ith
ha8hish regularly from Salonica whera the drugs came from Turkey. Psarologos and
Xagoraria forwarded part of the hashish to other "aelling points" ae well, while
Kiakhopoulos Was the gang's "ferry," carry3ng the stuff to other areas.
The second gang Was international~ composed of heroin merchants, and xas actime
primari],y in Plaka but it appears that ite net~+ork eactended to oth~er parte of
Athens and Piraeus. The gang was broken up by a police narcotics squad of the
Piraeus Security. In locating the gang, a deciaive role was pl~yed by.information
' given to the police by a staff inember of the newapaper TA NEA. Zn a hotel in Plaka,
the pol3ce arrested a German citizen, Berenot Horat, who Was the gang leader,
British sub~ect Christine Pitcher, Austrian Sabib Melcher, and tWO Greek Women
(G. Paskhalidou and G. Sorou). In the hotel xhere "the headquarters of the white
death" was eet up the police aeized 11 grams of heroin of excellent quality,
syringes reac~? for use and significant sums of money. The police also arrested
Kathreen Rellou~ a Nex Zealand,er married to E. Georgiou, a Greek citizen.
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A Greek supplier of heroin played a key role in the discovery of the German and his
Eritish companion who pulled tUs atrings in the gang and pushed the "merchandise."
All those arrested were also users. In Pitcher's room, under the wash bssin, the
police found heroin wrapped in foil. In another room the police found heroin and
syringes.
The police found out that the German gang leader Was staying in a boardinghouse
on 1~`ilellinon Street but lef't secretly when he learned that a tourist ~oman, Rosa
Laibe, with whom he had had an affair, had died from an overdose oP barbiturates.
He abandoned at the boardinghouse two suitcases and other items but no narcotics.
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~ CdtFECE
MAJOK DRUG D~ ~ SOUGHT
Athens TA NEA in (3reek 11 Jan 82 p 1 .
- /~ccerpt7 Lately ths police have been searching for a house painter from
l~I.exandroupolis Who is believed to be a ma~or narcotics importer from Turkey. .
This smu~ler moves large quantities of hashish and heroin into L+`vros, TheBSaloniki~
Lariea and Athens. Our Kavala correspondent reports:
"The house painter and drug dealer Hho 3s being sought by the police supplied
heroin to Ath. Vouras, 26, who was arrested in Kavala and ~rlio is now being interrc-
gated, and Nikos Papageorgiou, 29~ �~ho was about to sell processed hashish to a
police first lieutenant of the Athens Suburban Security and was arrested.
~~Yesterday, the Kavala gendarmery, follo~ing a tip from Athens, raided Papageorgiou~s
house at�11~ Makedonomakhon Street but found no other narcotica.
~~The search extended from Ebros to Athens in an effort to locate the house painter
who di.sappeared in Alexandroupolis as soon as he heard about the arrest of.Athan.
Vouras in Kavala. ~
"It Was learried that Athan. Vouras aold two large apartrcents he had inherited from
his father and w~ith the proceeds xas b~ying narcotica, apending 100,000 to 120,000
drachm~as every 6 weeks." ~
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_ NORWAY
HARSHEST-EVER SENTENCE HANDED DOWN IN HEROIN CASE
Oslo ARBEIDERBLADED in Norwegian 5 Dec 81 p 9
[TextJ Thirty-year old Beyhan Saat from Turkey was sentenced on Friday by the
Eidsivating circuit court in Oslo to 14 years imprisonment for the smuggling of
2 kilograms of heroin and 6 kilograms of hashish and for partial sale of these
substances.
His accomplice, 28-year old Halit Dogan, was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment.
- Dogan's 21-year old Norwegian wife was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment as a
courier in bringing the narcotics into the countr~~. The court, in imposing the
- sentence, took into consideration the fact that she had thought the narcotic was
hashish and not heroin.
~ The 4th individual implicated in the narcotics case, a 26-year old Turkish citizen,
was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for selling a portion of the narcotics.
The penalties meted out by the circuit court are the heaviest ever imposed for
narcotic violations in Norway. Unusually strict security measures were taken, with
more than 15 policemen in the courtroom, when, ti:e sentences were imposed. Accord-
ing to what NTB (Norwegian Press Bureau) has learned, the reason was a tip that
the chief Turkish defendant wanted to flee and that preparations for flight had
been made both inside and outside the prison.
The prosecutor had called for sentences of 14, 12, 8 and 4 years respectively.
In the court's judgment, which was unanimous, strong language was used concerning
' this narcotic case.
Many Dead
"The heroin was worth about 20 million kroner on the black market in Norway, and
would have resulted in the death of many heroin users if all of it had been sold
before the police acted," it is stated.
The main figure in the Turkish heroin gang is a millionaire by the name of Bekhir
Taban, who was previously expelled from Norway, and is still free.
The court determined that the chief defendant, Beyhan Saat, has been the key
figure in this organized traffic in narcotics in Noxway and also that Dogan has
had an important role.
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"In regard to the 30-year old Saat, there are no mitigating circumstances to be
noted. Al.though strong proof was presented in regard to him, he denied any
connection with the smuggling of narcotics. He stands out as the most profes-
sional in the group," the judgment reads.
The court consider~d the fact that Halit "~~~gan pleaded guilty after his wife had
put the cards on the table as a mitigating circumstance, but held that he cynically
exploited his wife in connection with the smuggling. At that time they were only
engaged.
"The woman stated that she thought she was only smuggling hashish, and this
explanation is the basis for her sentence being reduced from 8 to 3 years,
compared with the prosecutor's demand."
- East To Fool
"She behaved in a self-sacrif icing manner in her love affair and was cynically
exploited by her Turkish friend. She was unusually naive and easy to fool,"
the court said among other things.
On the other hand, the court did not think that her friend, Dogan, believed that
"only" hashish was being smuggled. It was shown that he sold heroin when he
came to Norway and that he had no scruples.
There have been in this case, according to information NTB has learned, murder
threats against one or several of those implicated, and the defense attorney for
Hallit Dogan informed NTB that his client is really afraid to go back to Germany.
"This is blamed on the fact that the chief figure, Bekhir Taban, is still free.
Therefore, Dogan wishes to remain in Norway after his sentence is served."
The prosecutor, state attorney Anstein Gjengedal, in reply to an inquiry from
NTB, confirmed that there is very acute tension between the two leading figures,
Dogan and Saat.
"There can be no question of letting them serve their sentences in the same
prison," Gjengedal said.
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NORWAY
BRIEFS
'CRISIS PHONES' FOR ABUSERS--0slo, 27 Nov--Crisis telephones will be set up in
individual municipalities as an element in combatting narcotics problems. The
minister of justice, Mona Rokke, informs HOYRES AVIS that it is a temporary trial
project with the state covering the expenses. The minister of ~ustice also
reveals that the department is working on rules which will provide authority for
the compulsory treatment of addicts. An increase in the capacity for treatment
is also an objective. [Text] [Oslo DAGBLADET in Norwegian 27 Nov 81 p 9] 6893
CSO: 5300/2109
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SWFDEN
CUSTOMS OFFICIAL SAYS AGENCY UNABLE TO CONTROL DRUGS FLOW
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 28 Dec 81 p 6
(Article by Sune Olofson]
[Text] Helsingborg~-Each year 14 million people, 900,000 cars, and
200,000 trucks pour across the border at Helsingborg, Ma1mo, Trelleborg,
- and Ystad. Only 50 customs off icers have tfie task of inspecting this
enormous number of people and vehicles.
"At the same time, the government maintains that drugs must be stopped at
the border. Tt~,at is an absurd task," district customs inspector Yngve Kahl
_ of the customs police said in Malmo.
"But there are no more than 50 of us actually out in the field at the
borders. The total number of personnel is greater, but many have other
duties, for example office work."
Customs officers r_ompare Scania to an hourglass--96 percent of� all drug
confiscations occur in Scania. At the Helsingborg border crossing alone,
9 million people enter the country annually with 180 arrivals each day.
- The personnel shortage is so severe that during half these arrivals at
_ Helsingborg the customs lines are unmanned.
Any drug smugglers arriving at such times walk right through.
Old Organization
- In many ways, the Customs Department is a neglected and antiquated organiza-
tion. Customs police in Malmo $till use card files to register smugglers
'and confiscations. Large boxes of cards are stacked in their off ices. I'or
_ 5 years customs off icials~have waited for a computer system.
When trains from the continent arrive in Helsingborg during the summer,
seven trains daily, there are about ].,500 people on board. The trains are
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so crowded with backpackers. that theiz baggage �al~s out of, the cazs when
customs officials open the doors.
Paradise for Smugglers
In 20 minutes, the time between Helsingor and Helsingborg, f our customs
off icers must inspect 14 cars, 7.,500 passengers, and their luggage.
"This is a paradise for drug smugglers," customs officer Ronald Stahl said.
"Here in Helsingborg, not a11 customs officers have binoculars and the
plastic flashlights do not work. Tfie automobile inspection hall has no
equipment for removing tires."
"I cannot understand how tfie customs authorities in Stockholm can~accept this
situation. Our superiors seem to be completely uninterested. It does not
matter whether we work or not. No one higher up is looking for results.
The Customs Department seems to have given up."
The long Scanian coastline is guarded by a few customs officers in so-called
control groups. Small marinas, ~nlets, and islands must remain unwatched.
Spot Checks
The mari.na for small boats in Limhamn outside Malmo has space for 1,500 boats.
Customs off icials know that there are many luxury yachts tfiere, purchased
on the continent, that have not been cleared by customs.
In 15 minutes a fast boat can reacfi the channel just outside the drug center
Christiania. Customs authorities have sufficient resources only for spot
checks.
"We feel helpless. Customs off icials must constantly try to keep up,"
said Kurt Wahlstedt, customs inspector and chief of the customs police in
Helsingborg.
Meanwhile, drug smugglers are entering through Helsingborg, Malmo, Ystad,
and Trelleborg. This year customs off icers in Helsingborg have made
578 confiscations--83 kg cannabis, 20 g cocaine, 5.1 kg amphetamines,
220 g heroin, and 21 kg "pep pills." ~
"Every politicial must know that these are drops in an enormous sea of
narcotics," Kurt Wahlstedt sa~d.
Astrid Hakansson is an examiner and customs inspector with the customs
police in Malmo.
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1982 Fateful Year
"Drug s~ugglers now are coming all the way fxom Lulea and Kixuna. They haVe
various proPessions---day cax'e ~exsonnel~ nurses~ recreation ~.eaders, SAS
employees, military personnel, dactox's, and teaeh.ers."
"This coming year wi11 be fateful. Arug abuse soon can become so widespread
that we will he forced to give up. We must do something dramatic now to
save our youth." .
_ "'The obvious thing to do is stop the narcotics at our borders---before i:hey
reach the distributors."
9336
~ CSO: 5300/2131
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SWEDEN
_ BRIEFS
CUSTOhiS DRUGS FUNDS INCREASED--The Ministry of Trade will get a 7~-million-kronor
increase in its budget. Sixty million of_ this will go to the customs system,
wliic}i will thus not have to cut down on its work. The minister of trade first of
all wants the customs to invest i.n the fight against narcotics, and proposes that
resources be made avai.lable for that purpose. Later in the spring the Alinistry
of 'Crade will have a hand in the government bill that will be presented on the
narcotics problem. It is conceivable that the customs service will get an extra
appropriation at that time. [E~cerpt] [St ockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish
12 Jan 82 p 4] 8815
TRCATI~NT CENTCRS' FUNDS INCREASED--About another 250 places will be arranged in
homes for narcotics addicts. There will then be a total of 1,990 places. At the
sa~~e time it is estimated that Sweden has over 10,000 heavy users of narcotics.
For care of female drug abusers 1.1 million kronor is being allotted. The police
are reorganizing again this year to combat economic crime and narcotics. The
police narcotics sections will get about another 15 positions. The state criminal
technological laboratory in Linkoping will get an extra 1.4 million kronor to buy
ec~uipment for analysis of drugs . The prison system wil l get more dogs tliat can
smell out drugs in the prisons of the country. The customs service is also making
changes to reinforce the fight against narcotics. [Text] [Stockholm SV~NSKA
DAGBL~IDET in Swedish 12 Jan 81 p 14] 8815
FAMILY ~b9UGGLED HEROIN FROM TURKEY--The Stockholm district court Tuesday [22 Decem-
ber 1981] sentenced the Turkish family that smug~led 5.5 kg of heroin ~rom Turkey
into Sweden to a total of 29 years in prison. The family consists of papa, mama,
and two grown sons. A 28-year-old son was sentenced to 10 years in prison. A 40-
year-old son was sentenced to 9 years in prison and ~xpulsion from Sweden. The
56-year-old father was sentenced to 5 years in prison. The SG-year-old mother
also got 5 years in prison. Both were also expelled from Sweden. The 23-year-
' old son's not being cxpelled is due to his being a Swedish citizen. All four
- membcrs of t.he family were convicted of serious narcotics crimes. The family was
part of a ring that has been smuggling heroin into Sweden for the last 2 years.
Thc ring was exposed last spring. The family was delivering heroin from Turkey
to various receivers in Sweden. A total of some lOpersons were involved, including
- a former member of the board of the Turkish national league in Sweae~~. All those
involved besides the family have been sentenced earlier to various severe penal-
ties. [Text] ~Stockholm DAGENS NYTETER in Swedish 23 Dec 81 p 11] 8815
CSO: 5300/2138
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TLTRKEY
- ARMENIAN TERRORISTS ALLEGEDLY SHIFT TO GOLD SMUGGLING
Istanbtit Operation
Istanbul TERCUMAN in Turkish 17 Jan 82 pp 1, 14
[Report by Mehmet Balikcioglu: "The Great Gold Operation"]
[Text] Ankara--Tt has been determined that Armenian terrorist organizations using
certain jewelers have smuggled large amounts of gold out of Turkey.
Because of the gold smuggling, initia~ed by the Armenians with the aim of obtaining
income for their organizations, all airports and border checkpoints have been
alerted.
Information :zas also been given to the concerned state organizations and the "Great
gold operation" has been set in motion. Armenian terrorist organizations are said
to have previously smuggled heroin--in transit--across Turkey. However, as a re-
sult of the successful operations and t9.ght controls by the Turkish police, they
are said to have given up this practice. In tr.e "Gold operation," 200 million
lira~ worth of gold in ingot form were seized in tstanbul alone.
Tight Controls Prove a Barrier
The Armenian terrorist organizations in Europe shipped the narcotics which they
obtained from Far and Middle-Eastern countries in transit across Turkey. As a
result of successful operations carried out by the Turkish police organization
together with Interpol, the use of Turkey as a bridge in narcotics smuggling was
prevented. The security organization's determination, its pursuit of smugglers and
' its arresting of some of them have preventpd smuggling of narcotics, particularly
heroin, across Turkey by Armenian organizations.
Under Armenian Control
Follawing the 12 September Action, careful control of customs entry and exit points,
iarports and harbors :nade it impossible for the smugglers controlled by the Armenians
' to operate. The Armenians, realizing that they would be unable to transport across
Turkey the narcotics which they obtained $.rom the Middle and Far East, began to
shif t to the sea lanes and began to use other countries as bridges.
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Tactics Changes
The Armenian terrorists gave up narcotics smuggling in the face of dogged pursuit
by our police. Realizing that Turkish soil could not be an "entry point for nar-
cotics," they next tried to smuggle gold. The Armenians smuggled significant
amounts of gold out of the country obtaining financial support for their foul de-
signs. This activity of theirs soon came to the attention of the Turkish security
organizations.
- The police, working day and night, discovered the jewelers whom the Armenians
controlled and initiated the "great gold operation."
r.
The operation netted 200 million liras worth of 22 carat gold in ingot form. Upon
discovery of the gold smuggling by the murdering Armenians who martyred several of
our diplomats, an analysis of the situation was made and the way to intercept the
go]ld going to the murderers was determined. The work soon led to a successful con-
clusion. Another tactic of the gold smuggling murder organization ended in a fiasco.
Meanwhile, airports, border points as well as harbors, the customs and the coast
guard organizations were alerted.
Anatolia Operation
Isr.anbul TERCUMAN in Turkish 21 Jan 82 pp 1, 14
[Report by Mehmet Balikcioglu: "The Gold Operation Shifts to Anatolia"]
[Text] Ankara--The "great gold operation" connected with the go'id smuggling directed
by A~menian terrorist organizations is still under way. The operations were begun
f ollowing the discovery that Armenians had smuggled large quantities of gold out
of our country. After Istanbul, the opeations shifted to encompass all of Anatolia.
Two Greeks and four Israelis, the tools of the Armenians, were apprehended. Me?n-
while, meausre were taken on trains leaving the country after it was learned that
gold was smuggled in particular by train. Professor:~Bedri Gursoy, in a statement
to our newspaper said "Gold is equivalent to foreign exchange. The state should
continue the measures it has taken."
In their statements, the apprehended Greek and two [sic] Israeli smugglers said
that they were c.arrying the gold in their possession to the town of Trieste, in
Italy. In recent days, the gold operation begun by security officials in Istanbul
has shif ted to Anatolia. As a result of operations undertaken, approximately 50
million liras worth of additional illegal gold were seized.
When it became clear that the sm~-.ggling was directed by Armenian organizations, the
measures taken�at airports and harbors as well as customs checkpoi.nts, and on trains
leaving Turkey were intensified.
During the measures and operations which were carried out, the Greek nationais
Atanoguas Calavadis, and Aloksos Gitsijis and Israeli nationals Andirie Suader,
Kessel Maylkun, Harbinea Sjov and Adlij Kivey were apprehended. The apprehended
Israeli and Greek smugglers said that they were transporting the illegal gold ir.
their possesion to the town of Trieste, in Italy, and that they did not know who
was to take delivery.
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Authorities indicated that the gold smuggling was being carried out in the same
manner as heroin smuggling. They said "the women used by the smugglers place the
gold in bundles which they strap to their abdomens to give the impression that they
ar.e pregnant."
CSO: 4b~4~1SS END
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