JPRS ID: 10477 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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22 Aprii 1982
Woridwide Re ort
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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JPRS L/10477
22 '~pril 1982
WORLDWIDE REPORT
iVARCOTICS AND DAN GEROUS DRUGS
(~ovo ~8/82)
- CONTENTS
ASIA
AUSTRALIA ~
Civil Liberties Council Concerned Q~er Marihuana Raids
(Elizabeth Johnston; THE AUSTRALIAN, 15 Feb 82) 1
Briefs
Marihu~;a Burning � 2
BURMA
Briefs
Opium Crop Substitution Course 3
Opium Plants Destroyed 3
Opium Fields Destroyed 3
HONG KONG
Amendment to Narcotics Law Permits Full Body Search
(SOU`I'H CHINA MORNING POST, 13 Mar 82) 1~
Three Malysi ans Jailed 9 Years for Synuggling Morphine
(SOUTH CHINA MURNING POST, 19 Mar 82) 5
Marihuana Haul From Philippines Largest Since 1975
(Donald Cheung; SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 20 Mar 82) 6
New Heroin Ring Smashed After Thai Courier Arrested
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 13 Mar 82) 7
American Gets 2 Years~ Imprisonment for Importing Heroin
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 9 Mar 82) 8
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INDONESIA
TT�ro Foreign Women Arrested for Maxihuana Trafficking
(MERDEKA, 12 Feb 82) 9
irief s
Naxcotics Destroyed 11
N~ALAYSI.A
BriEf~~
Anti-Drug Coordinating Body 12
YAKISTAN
Minister Discusses Eradication Program With United States
Officials '
(DAWN, 21 Mar 82) 13
Drug Trafficking Discussed
(Edito;.�ial; MORNING NEWS, 19 Ma-r 82)........,,........~. 15
Briefs
Heroin Seized in Islamabad 17
Heroin Smuggling Bid Foiled 17
Smuggler Fined 17
Interpol-FIA Cooperation 18
PHILIPPINES
Stiffer Penalties for IJrug Users
(VISAYAN HERALD, 22 Mar 82) 19
Briefs
Warning ori Hero_in Trafiir. 20
SRI LANKA
Briefs
Ganja Plan tati~n Raided 21

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LATIN AMERICA
BAHAMAS
Political Figure Refuse~ To Blame U.S. for Drug Problem
(Gladstone Thurston; THE TRIBUNE, 5 Mar 82) 22
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BERMUDA
Minister Claims Youth Falling Prey to I?rug Pushers
{THE ROYAL GAZETTE, 13 Max 82) 23
Two Convicted in Heroin Smuggling Given 15-Year Terms
(THE TRIBUNE, 9 Mar 82} 25
BRAZIL .
Campinas Police Establish System To Combat ~'raffickir_g
(0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO, 1 Mar 82) 26
Brief s
Record Marihuana Planting Bust 28
Creation of Reg~:,ial Drug Council 28
Cocaine Ring Uisbanded in Amsterdam 29
MEXICO
Antidrug Coordinator Describes Zonal Pilot Plan
(EL SOL DE 5INALOA, 19 Mar 82) 30
Briefs
= Plane With Marihuana Downed 31
Tra~ficking Jail Official Sought 31
Marihuana Shipment Burneci 32
Trafficker Claims Torture . 32
Warden Charged With Escape 32
Trafficker Founci in Custody 33
� Coca~ne Shipment Seized 33
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Crime, Influx cf Weapons Attributed to I}rug Trafficking
(SUNDAY GTTARDIAN, 21 Mar 82) 31~
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NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
EGYPT
Opium Smuggle.d FY~om India Seized
(THE EGYPTIAN GAZETTE, 19 Mar 82) 38
IRAN
Briefs
March Drug Haul 39
Opium Seized in Darab 39
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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
Brief s
Dagga Seized !~0
' WEST EUftOPE
DENMARK
Two Turks Arrested in Large Heroi.n-Smuggling Case
(Anders Wiig; BERLINGSKE ~IDENDE, 23 Mar 82) 1t1
Turkish Gang Sentf:nced in Heroin Smuggling Case
(Anders Wiig; BERI~INGSKE TIDENDE, 31 Mar 82) l~1~
Briefs
Drop in Narcotics Deaths !~6
ICELAND
Morphine Removed F`rom Life Boats; Officials Investigating
(MORGUNB?~ADID, 27 Feb 82) I~7
ITALY
Four Heroin Smugglers Arrested in Bari
(Ettore Gic,,~gio Poti; LAGAZZETTA DEL MEZZOGIOftNO,
2 Mar 82) L~8
NETHERLANDS
Progress, Problems in Amsterdam Ilrug Scene
(I~A LIBRE BELGIQUE, 23 Mar 82) 50
TURKEY
Briefs
Istanbul Heroin Seizure 52
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AUSTRALIA
CIVIL LZBERTIES COUNCIL CONCERNED OVER MARIJUANA RAIDS .
Canberra T~ AUSTRALIAN in English 15 Feb 82 p 2
[Article by Eli7~'~eth Johnston]
[Te xt ] THE Queensland ~ inB the possession of ~
CounciI for Civil Liber-; small amounts of mari-l
tics is conccrned at the ~ ~uana. ~
increasing number of' "When you consider
arrests involving small that is the experience of
amounts of marijuana. one sollcitor in one
, The spokesman on mornin(; you Bet an ind-
pollce powers, Mr Noel ication of how many �
Nunan. said yesterday P~oPle arc being arres-
there was also concern ted:' he said.
ovcr the hars?ssment of Mr Nunan said many
motorcycle riders. of the arrests followed
raids on prlvate l~rem-
~~The police are alienat- ises which were a result
1ng a whole generation of tip-offs from neigh-
with the drug laws;' Mr bors or estranged girl-
Nunan said. frfends.
~~Tt~e number of people He satd motorcycle rid-
Ueing picked up for ers werc also a favorite
bcing in possession ot targetforpolicc. .
small amounts ot drugs Sometimes they were
- less than 25gm - is pulled up~ given what he
staggering, called a "heavy t~me"
~~These people are ' and then given a speed-
mostly under 25 but ing ticket.
when they rcach 30 or 35 ~~Often they are pulled
and develop different ~
values they can't get in- ~ over and goaded into
volved in public groups : being defiant;' Mr
or run for parliament ' Nunan said.
because they liave a "These aren't bikies. . .
criminal conviction:' ~~T1Tey are young
Mr Nunan said in one people who can't afford
mornin~ as a duty solic- j a car or don't need one
it~r he had handled ~ because they have no
eight guilty pleas involv-; Samily to transport:'
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
MARIJUANA BUId~tING--NSW Drug Squad detectives supervised the burninq yesterday
of 3000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of almc~st $2 million.
The p1.a~ts, many more than 2m hiqh, had been grawing in dense forest north of
Newcastle. Acting on information they received from a telephone call, 14
police raided a property near Gloucester earlier this week. In a clearing
surrounded by dense forest they found a nursexy, dzying room and irrigation
equipment used to cultivate the marijuana plants. Police said most plants had
been grawing for up to three months and the largest specimens would have
fetched about $500 each. tvo arrests have been made, but police are lookinq
for a man. He is described as about 45, 187 cm tall, of solid build with
light brown hair. [Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in Enqlish 12 Feb 82 p 2]
CSO: 5300/7538
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BURMA
BRIEFS
OPIUM CROP SUBSTITUTION COURSE--Lashio, 15 March--Multiplier Course No 2/82
on cultivation of cash crops to replace opium poppy of the Peasants Asiayone
and Course No 8 on animal husbandry and basic ~-^.terinary science were opened.
at a ceremony at the special high-yield maize cultivation station of the
Agriculture Corporation here this morning. Township Party Unit Chairman
U San Shwe, Township People's Council Secretary U San Yu and Township
Peasants Asiayone Chairma.n U Sang Tun Hla spoke on the occasion. The course
on cultivation of cash. crops is being attended by 70 trainees from 14
village-tracts ir~ Nampaung region and the animal husbandry and basic vete-
rinary science course is being attended by 14 trainees.--NA.B ~Text~ ~Rangoon
THE WORKING PEOPLES DAILY in English 22 Mar 82 p 4~
OPIUM PLANTS DESTROYED--Rangoon, 26 March--Under the arrangement made by the
Central Narcotics Control Board, a total of 10,539 acres of opium poppy were
destroyed under Operation Ngayepan Phase II since 19 December 1981. The
opium poppy destroyed by the Tatmadaw, People's Police Force and the S ecurity
~.lnits in cooperation with local people under the leadership of the Party Unit
and People's Councils, included 3,099 acres in eastern part of Shan State
and 6,714 acres in northern part of Shan State. The Tatmadaw, People's
Police Force and the working people are continuing to destroy the remaining
opium poppy plantations, it is learnt.--NAB FText~ [Ra~,goon THE WORKING
PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 27 Mar 82 p 5~
GPIUM FIELDS DESTROYED--Rangoon, Burma, March 15 (AP)--The Burmese g~vernment
destroyed 336 hectares (830 acres) of opium fields in eastern Burma, seized
981 kilos (2,163 pounds) of raw opium, 14 kilos (31 pounds) af heroin and 66
kilas (146 pounds) of marijuana between July 1 and Dec. 31 of last year, a
report suxmitted to the Parlisment Monday said. Burma is a key producer of
illicit opium from which heroin is refined, and in recent years the government
has stepped up its anti-narcotics activities. The same report said the qovern-
ment seized 14 Thai trawlers poachinq in its waters and 45 Burmese vessels en-
gaged in smuggling. The report said 85 Thai crew members were arrested durfnq
the six-mon~h period last year. [Rangoon THE CHINA POST in Enqlish 17 Mar 82
p 6]
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, HONG KONG
AMENDMENT TO NARCOTICS LAW PERMITS FULL BODY S~ARCH
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 13 Mar 82 p 5 _
[Text~ A Bill permitting a where there has no[,been"g minute qaantities whicb are
search of body cavities tlf a P~a~ss of chemiql modiPca- : nut measurable or u~ble..
suspected drug courier tion of another aubatance or "Whether rasecution ac-
with or without consent substances into a dsngerons tCon should �~'taken whzrc
was gazetted yesterday. drug. aiily traas of drugs ar. found
Thecefore thoae engeged will of courae ~tiU depend on
The Dangerous Drugs � the cir~~.um~tenas�of individ-
(Amendment) Bill 1982 also ~n "diluting" or' cutting ual c�aes;' the apokaaman
empvwers the detention of the heroin base or its salb faa said.
suspect until the examination ~~er charges like poseasion.
is carned out. The definition of "manu-
Thr search must be b a facture" of dangeroue dru~
y will be broedened to include
- Govcrnment doctor at the re- making, adulterating, uril'y-
quest of a police officer or ~ng, mixing. uparating or
l:ustoms and Excise offiar othe~wise treating e danger-
and the doctor is protected ous drug if the Bill becomea
from civil and criminal liabil- ~eW
ities concerning human rights
violations. In reant yesrs, drug
All public officers acting traffickers have been import-
under the main ordinance are ing incteasing amounq of
similarly protected from li- heroin base into Hongkong
ability, the Bill states. because oF its, higber value
A Narcotics Division but lower bulk than opium or
spokesman said there is a morphine, the tpokesmea
growing trend in drug smug- said. '
gling whereby "considerable" ~~Another factor behind
quantities of dru~s are con- ~he prevalerice of trafficking
cealed in body cavitus. in heroin bau is that the
Since January last year, preparation of.the most com-
31 people have becn arrested monly used ~alt of heroin
at Kai Tak airport alone with from it is a quicker, simpler
dru~s conaaled insidc their and cleaner praceys than the
cumbersome, . smeily and
The Bill also provides a oftcn dangerous method of
new dePnition ot "manufac- manufacturing herdn from
turing" to covcr all cases of marphinc using acetylating
the treatment of a dangerous substances;' he said.
drug. Last year. the police and �
And it provides for prose- Customs and Excise officera
cution in cases where ~nly g~;zed 85.4 kg of heroin base
small quantitics of dangerous compared to 38.3 kgs in 1980.
drugs; not measurablc or in rhe Bill meke~ it clear
themselve~ useble, are found. that any quantitlet of danger-
Under the present dcfini- ous drugs, however small, are
tion, peoplc ~annot be prose- regarded as dangerous drugs
cuted for manufacturing for the pu~poses of the ordi-
nance.
Prosecution can thus be
instituted in cas~s involving
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HONG KONG
THREE MAI.AYSIANS JAILED 9 YEARS FOR SMUGGLING MORPHINE
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 19 Mar 82 p 19
( Text ] Three Malaysian nationals, Lim Ah Cheh, Kee Moh Din
and Bong Ah Hin, werc yesterday each sentenced to nine
years' imprisonment for smuggling S2 miliion worth of
morphine from Bangkok to Hongkong.
They pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in dangerous
dr~gs.
Crown counsel C.G. Jackson told Mr Justice:Barna in the
High Court that Lim was handcd ovcr to'�the Airport
Investigation Unit after landing at Kai Tak from Bangkok on
August 6 when an immigration officer found his nalne wa~ on
the stop-watch list.
'Asked if he had anything to declare, Lim produad thra
packets containing 1,104.3 grams of esters of morphine -
one From his abdomen and two strapped to his legs.
Questioned further, Lim said he was travelling with two
other Malaysian nationals, both staying at a Tsimshataui
botel.
Acting on this information, customs offcers, aRer ques=
tioning two othcr mcn, seized 2,167J grams of eatero of
morphine from e suitcase in a room at the hotel.
Interviewed under caution, Lim said he had agreed to
smuggle the drugs for a reward of MS3,000 (about
HKS7,500) plus an agrcement to be Ict off a dcbt incurred
while bctting on horscs.
F~e was recruited in Malaysia by a man named Ko Lo
Tzat, who brought the other two dcfendents lo hia house.
They thcn went to Singapore sirport wherc each was given
an air ticket to Bangkok.
, The drugs wcrc handcd ovcr to Lim, in thc presence of thc
two other dcfendentx, in a hotel room in Bangkok.
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HONG KONG
MARIHUANA HAUL FROM PHILIPPINES LARGEST SINCE 1975
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 20 Mar 82 pp 1, 20
[Article by Donald Cheung]
[ T-ext ] Customs men have uncov- to confuse the drug's origin ~`In this case we found
cred a Philippines-based drug because Thai marijuana is of that the Cargo was Consigned
cyndicate following the recent better quality and fetches a to an individual rathtr than a
seizurc of 16 kg of marijuana higher price. � company and also that the
at Kai Tak airport. "Man~uana grown ~r o was roughly made;'
The drugs, m unclaimcd Thailand, known as 'Buddha sa~~Assistant Superintendent
air cargo, would have fetched stick,' is regarded as 2he best David Tong.
51.6milliononthcstrects. in the world;' said Senior ~~This rom ted us to
Describcd as "the biggest Superintendent K.S. Tong of P p
haul of mariju:~na" ~incc the Custorr,s Investigati~n cxamine the cargo thorough-
IG75, customs officials said Bureau. ~y ~ ~
thc drugs werc bclicvcd to be Customs men bclieve four 'the current street-value of
for local consumptiun. similar shipments have al- cannabis is about S 1 AO a
They said it would havc ready bcen smuggled into gram. The price has risen
been distributed mainly to }~ongkong in the same way � ~
Filipinos, Enropeans and Chi- by this syndicate over the past about SO per cant in a year.
nese students who have ?woyears. Ufficera aaid marijuana ia
studied abroad, througb loeal However, they are believ- not as widely uaed in Hong-
bars and discos. � ed to have been much small- kong as other drugs, suah aa
The 32 packets of mari- ~r, only four to Cive kilos hero~n, opium and opium
juana, each weighing hatf a each. base.
kilo, were found in a four- "Maybe they used those as ~~This soft dcug is only for
font�long metal cylindcr, two trial shipmants and when more well-off people for uae
fect in diametcr thcy found that the drugs ~n W~~d partics;' one oFficer
It is the biggest seizur.e ~ould get in succes~fully, the .
hcre of d'rugs nriginating deci~icd to ha~~c a real gc~,Y said.
from the Philip~incs. Canna- ~ne customs officer said. He'added he thou$ht da
bis has previous y been smug- Thc disguised drug ship- mand was growing w~th the
gIcd into Hongkong mainly ment arnved on February 7 increasing,Filipinopopulation
from Thailand, Indi~ and and a mxn turned up at Kai here.
Tak to claim it.
Pa Although a ~ew acketa Hc paid the freight No artest haa been made
p ~o far but customs officen are
wcre marked "Bang kok charge, but failed to return to ~~kin~ for threc Filipino
Gold. Product of Thai- alter he was told by men, mcluding the one who
land;' customs ofPicers said airline officials that cuatoms tried to collect the shipment,
ihey believed it w,.~ all from afficers wanted to eaamine it. Zq.y~ar-old AlFredo Bor~a.
thc Philippines. qlerted by this, customa
' A lot of marijuana is The thra suspecta are be-
grown in the northern part of officers drilled two holes in ~o hnve used false pa~a-
the Philippines;' a customs ~h~ cylinder on March 5 and rtt to traval to Hongkon~.
~pokesman said. fuund ths drugs insida, w~ap- ~ustoms authorities in the
Thcy belicved thc parcels ped in silver f~il. philippines were contacted
had becn dcliberately labelled Customs men told a press lest wak for help in the
conference yesterdaX that inveatigation.
~ they usually ezamme in-
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HONG KONG
NEW HEROIN RING SMASHED AF1'ER THAI COURIER ARRESTED
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 13 Mar 82 p 5
[Text ~ Alert customs officers The suspects are expected
have smashed a newty-formed to be charged with posaession
dru g syndicete when they of dangeroua drug~ for the
seized one kilogram of heroin Purpose of unlawful traffick-
base at Kai Tak airport. ing. '
The drug was found in the police sources said that
false top and bottom of a the Chiu Chow syndicate was
suitcase said to belong to a formed recently to take
~ 36-year-old Thai courier advantage of the shortage of
when he arrived from Bang- drugs and the' prevailing high
kok on Thursday afternoon. , prices.
The seizure would have
been worth 5650,000 on the The farmer had ellegedly
retai~ market.. made cuntact with the Thai
Customs offcers used the couriar whom he came to
rnuricr as "bait" and sha- know whilc visitin~ Bangkok
dowed him to a hotel in Mid- reccntly, sources said.
dle Road, Tsimshatsui, whore Because of the recent sei-
he made codtact with a T'hai zures of huge drug shipments
woman iq the hotel lobby. by customs officers, the street
A Chinese man - a Farm- prices of No 3 heroin have
er from Kam Tin, iri the New shot up almost 100 per cent
Territories - later arrived at over the past three weeks.
the hotel and received the
suitcase.
The two men and the
woman were then arrested
and detained for further in-
quiries.
A sister of the Thai
woman and another man
_ were also arrested in follow-
up raids in Kowloon and the
New Territories early yester-
day morning.
They were released on
52,000 bail each pending fur-
ther investigations.
Customs sources said last
night that they were still
hunting for the syndicate's
mastermind, identified as a
Chiu Chow man who had ,
been previously investigated
by officers of the Customs
Investigations Bureau.
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HONG KONG
AMERICAN GETS 2 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT FOR IMPORTING HEROIN
Hong Kong SOUTF CHINA MOItNING POST in English 9 Mar 82 p 10
[Text ] A dcaf-mute American It was said that White 6as
was yestcrday sentenced to a wife, who is alao deaf end
two years' imprisonment by mute, and three daughters. .
Judge O'Dea at kowioon Dis- Fle still hea to aupport the
trict Court nfter pleading two youn4erdaughtera.
guilty to importing heroin White s elder daughter
which was "in transit" from and her husband had acrnm-
Ncw Uclhi to Los Angeles. panied him on his journey
Edwin Otto� Wliite (46) from New Delhi to Los An-
was taken unconscious from geles end had aince returned
an aircraFt w}?en it madc a to the United Stata.
stopovcr at Kai Tak airport White was interviewed in
en route to the United Statcs hospital by officers of the
on February I 1, the court was Narcotics Bureau on Febru-
told. ary 17 after which he appear-
He was admitted to Queen ed at South � Kowloon Court
Elizaboth Hospital wherc onachargeofposaeasing dan-
three plastic packages con- gerous druga for unlawful
taining drugs were found in trafficking.
his right sock. His case was trAnsferred
Two days later he regain- to Kowloon District Court on
ed consciousness and consent- February 26. ~
ed to an operation during Yesterday, the Crown
which 43 more packages of charged him with "being a
drugs, including one torn one, person by whom a dangerous
were removed from his dru~ was imported in tran-
gastraietestinal tract.' sit; and offered no evidence
The court was told that a against him on the charge of
total of 175.96 grams of a po~session. �
drugs mixture containing 162
grams of salts of ester of
morphine were in the pack-
ages.
Passing sentence, Judge
O'Dca said that he had taken
into consideration White's
plea of guilty, his physical
disability nndhisco�operation
with thc police.
The judge added that he
had also considcrcd the dif-
ference in White's case with
those of local people who had
families to support and were
convicted of similar offences.
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INDONESIA
TWO FOREICN WOMEN ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA TRAFFICKING '
Jakarta MERDEKA in Indonesian 12 Feb 82 pp 1, 12
(Text] An Ttalian woman and an American woman were arrested last Monday
in Bali for narcotics trafficking, a MERDEKA correspondent learned f rom
Police Brigadier Soehar3ono, c~mmander of the Principal Narcotics Detective
Unit.
According to Soeharjono, Maria Rosaria Criscones, born in Rome on 2 May 1948,
had, on three occasions, sold drugs brought from Bangkok via ~Iong Kong,
Singapore and Jakarta for marketing in Den Pasar, Bali.
Mari:~, who holds passport no. 732877, was arrested by menbers of the Prin-
cipal Narcotics Detective Unit on behalf of the Australian Federal Po~.ice.
An Interpol report had revealed that a s uitcase f ull of marijuana was being
transported via Garuda flight GA 965. The case was owned by a passenger
named Maria, who had disembarked in Ng urai Rai Airport, Den Pasar.
The Detective Unit alerted Bali Police Regional Command to watch Garuda.
About 3 February, a woman claimed to Garuda that she had lost a bag. Her
name was rlaria, and she was Italian.
The trap was set. The bag was turned over to Garuda by the police. Maria
was infonned, and on Sunday at 1300, she appeared at the airport to claim
the bag she had reported as lost. The Police arrested her. ~
Soeharjono tald MERDEKA that 100 ganja stalks weighing 400 grams were con-
cealed in the bag's lining. The gan~a had been brought from Bangkok via
Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta, and she was able to slip away with her
bag to board a domestic Garuda flight for Den Pasar.
She also bro~ht a quantity of brown sygar, stored in a doll. According
to ]'olice Major Rusdi, who arrested her, the brown sigar was to later be
dissolved in water, and in~ected, like heroin.
- Maria was not alune in her narcotics dealing. She worked with a young
. American woman, who stayed at the Golden Village, Kuta. Claire Ritter,
, passport no. a.2754870, born in New York on 24 October 1947, had traveled
to Indonesia five times on a tourist visa. Fram her, police siezed 15
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ganja stalks c~eighing 15 grams. She claimed the ganja was only for her
own use. But Maria confessed that the two had sold drugs to young people
in Bali.
Responding to a ME:'~EKA query, Police Major Rusdi, chief of thP IK Sattama
Narcotics Detective Unit, said the Thai sticks they were selling is used for
smoking, and is of higher quality than other ganja.
~ The two foreign nationals are now being held by the Police Regional Coumand,
Bali, for further investigation and prosecution.
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INDONESIA
BRIEFS
NARCOTICS DESTROYED--The Committee to Eradicate Narcotics (PPN), composed
of elements of the Depar~nents of Health and Justice, burned a quantity of
morphine and opiim in a Jakarta crematoriun. The drugs included 2.524 kg
of morphine and 49.665 kg of opiun. The PPN is tasked with destroying
confiscated narcotics. Representatives from the navy and police attended
the burning. [bccerpt] [Jakarta SINAR HARAPAN in Indonesian 27 Feb 82 p 2]
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MALAYSIA
BRIEFS
ANTI-DRUG COORDINATING BODY--Malaysia and Singapore have set up a coordinating
body that will enable drug enforcing office~s from either side to operate
across their conunon border. This was stated by the director of the Central
Narcotics Bureau in Singapore today. He said the formation of the border
drug committee followed serious concern in the two countries over the possible
influx of drugs after a recent bumper opium harvest in the golden triangle.
He said direct telephone links had been established between the bureau and
the Malaysian police in all state capitals of peninsular Malaysia in con~unc-
tion witn the setting up of the committee. Malaysia and Singapore had been
linked by a joint drug liaison committee for the past 2 years. [BK090202
Kuala Lumpur International Service in English 0800 GMT 7 Apr 82 BK]
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PAKISTAN
MINISTER DISCUSSES ERADICATION PROGRAM WITH UNITID STATES OFFICIALS
Karachi DAWN in English 21 Mar 82 p 6
[TextJ Washington, b.arch 20-~Pakistan's Interior Minister, Mr Mahmoud Aaroon
went to the hill aqain on F~iday and exchanged views with the influential
Senator from Texas, Chairman John Towe of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
His visit on Thursday was to the House Foreign Affairs Committee where, among
others, he met Congressman Pritchard, who has been to Pakistan several times
and has steadily supported the Pakistan case.
His discussions o~ Friday with the US Acting Secretary of State Mr Walter
sto~ssel, covered a wide canvas but concentrated more specifically on mutual
collaboration on the eradication of druq - addiction, which is causinq deep
concern to nations worldwide.
Mr Mahmoud Haroon infarmed SecretAry Stoessel that Pakistan was just as anx-
ious as USA to save its youth from the global spread of the narcotic epidemic.
islamabad was determined to curb the evil not only as a national duty, but
also as a reliqious obligation for, Islam forbade all that causes intoxica-
tion. 'ib that end, Pakistan was ca-operating not only with the United States
but also with Norway, Sweden and other countries threatened by the problem.
Inhiriting Factars
At the same time, the Pakistan Interior Minister pointed to certain inhibit-
ing factars, such as the location of mas~ poppy-fields and plants in the far-
flung tribal areas which for centuries had remained outside the pale of ncr-
mal law, and unless tribesmen, cultivating poppy, could be tempted into aa-
ceptable alternatives, the problem could not be checked. Nevertheless, a
major effort was under way not only to offer them a lucrative crop-substitu-
tion but also a comprehensive socio-eca.~omic infrastructure developn~ent plan.
This, toqether with the crack-down in the settled areas had already bequn to
pay dividends, he added. ~tvo years aqo, the poppy crop amounted to S00 tons:
It has since been reduced to 100 tons and the campaign has been further
intensified.
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US Aid Programme
According to PPI Special Correspondent, Ghani Erabi, the United States has
proposed a fiscal 1982 international narcotics control assistance programzne
of 2.9 million d~llars to be used as under.
('_.35 million dollars to lzelp with design and implementation of a development
pro ect, intended to support the ban imposed by Tslamabad on opium production
by providing farmers with alternative income sources 675,000 dollars do the
Pakistan Narcotics Control Board for training and equipment support for en-
forcement officers, 100,000 dollars for research in drug abuse in Pakistan
and for training in treatment and rehabilitation, 300,000 for general pro-
gramme development and support costs and 475,000 dollars for assistance in
enforcement programmes for the port of Karachi.
Prohibitian Order
The Congressional staff study mission that visitect Pakistan last fall, in its
report has said: "The Government of Pakistan appe~t3 genuinely committed to
suppressing the illicit production and export of narcotics from Pakistan. It
is also concerned about increasing levels of drug abuse within Pakistani so-
ciety and how to address this prob7.em effectively. Until 19'~9 opium produc-
tion was regulated but not illegal (c~pium poppies were cultivated legally as
an important cash crop under the British.
--President Zia-ul-Haq issued the Prohibition (enforcement of Hadd) Order of
February 1979 which essentially codified and applied the strictures of Islam-
ic law to illegal narcatics. The Order prohibits the possession production,
transfer and receipt of narcatics and prescribes very severe penalties. This
was further strengthened by an outright ban on the cultivation of opiLan
plants .
Crop-Substitution Plan
At the same time, adds the report, Pakistan recognises that enforcement alone,
will not solve the narcotics problem and with UN assistance, it has been car-
rying aut a pilot crop-substitution project providing small farmers subsi-
dised farm inputs in return for their abandoning poppy cultivation. But the
project has not been a camplete success. Tl:e Pakistan Government has come to
the conclusion that it must combine the crop-substitution with an entire in-
frastructure of socio-economic development in target areas."
But it must be recognised, "the Conqressional report cancludes, "that under-
taking comprehensive develo~ment effort of this nature is a complex, lengthy
and expensive proposition".
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PAKISTAN
DRUG TRAFFICKING DISCUSSED
Karachi MORNING NEWS in English 19 Mar 82 p 6
[Editorial.: "Trafficking in Drug")
[Text] The four-day international Islamic conference which will begin in the
Holy city of Medina from March 23 to discuss threadbare the dreaded menace of
increasing use of narcotics all ov~er the world indicates the seriousness of
the problem. The conference will be attended by the Ulema, thinkers and spe-
cialists from all over the world who will ponde~ over the problem from the
Islamic point of view and suqgest ways to put down the illicit trade Since
the end of the Second World War, whets traffick:Lng in illicit drugs suddenly
increased unceasing efforts by various Governments have continued unabated
without any checking the racket. Tha~t is an indicator of the skill in organ-
isation and management of the unholy trade. It also higlights the inadequacy
af the existing laws and methods so far employed to combat the menace. We
hope the c:onference would give special thought to this aspect and come out
with a plan effective enough to meet the challenge.
Addiction to narcotics.has now assumed alarming proportions especially in the
West. nut in this part of the world including Pakistan, the picture is no
less dismal. A drug addict is pracitically lost as a useful member of the
society. Once in the hypnotic grip of the potion, there is no easy way to.
wean him a~eay from it. The increasing supply of the drugs such as heroin,
opium, chara~~ and other forms of thein along with a corresponding rise in ad-
dicts is a danger signal to the civilised world. Pakistan in that respect
seems to be more in danger as the huge consignments of heroin, opium and char-
as caught in the last few months shows. The value of the contraband drugs
seized here runs into billions of rupees.
The situation has rightly created an alarm and the Government of Pakistan is
taking all possible measures to limit the area and cultivation of opium. The
Uni.ted Nations is also making its help available in this connection. The po-
lice and custams authorities in Pakistan have done a remarkably qood job in
seizing huge amount of the druqs and it must have saved lakhs or millions of
souls in countries for which the drugs were intended. But there is no way of
knowing if the consignments seized were not merely a fraction of the stuff
that evaded detection.
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So far, the law-enforcing authorities have succeeded in catching only the
couriers or unearthing a gang of people engaqed in manufacturing heroin etc.
But the real bosses remain practically untounched and probably unknown.
Moreover, the punishment awarded to people engaged in the traffick has in no
way deterred others fram joining the trade. The Medina conference must exam-
ine the prnblem from this particular angle. It would be worthwhile examining
how China eli.minated drug addiction from the country or how Iran is combating
the me ce. It may appear too drastic a suggestion but how can the menace be
otherwise stamped out? The profits in the unholy trade are too enormous to
discauxage those involved in it by merely putting them beizind the bars for a
few years ar confiscating the contraband consignments. The USA and other Eur-
opean Governments have failed to stamp out the menace because the qangs always
manage to find new couriers and new routes to send the stuff to the intended
markets.
in recent ye3rs drug addiction has assumed alarming proportions in Pakistan
also, especially in certain parts of Baluchistan and NWFP. But the addicts
are not confined to those areas only. In fact there is no city or small town
of the country without its addicts. The situation in other Asian and African
countries is not much better.
The real problem is not ta stop trafficking in illicit drugs or rehabilitat-
ing the addicts, although they are no less important. The most urgent need
and really productive, is to put down the production of the narcotics and
catch the real bosses of the trade. It must be realised that the interna-
tional ramifications of this trader with all their well-knit organisation and
led by them ruthlessly, cannot be eradicated by local or national measures,
neither can they be combated with the conventional laws and methods. One of
the most active organisers of the drug traffick, the Mafia has remained un-
broxen even though the most efficient American machinery is geared to fight
it. That shows the strength of the traffickers, and also proves that much
mare than ordi.nary methods are needed to end the menace. We hope the confer-
ence at Medina will thoroughly examine this aspect of the problem and come out
with appropriate suggestions to root out the menace.
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZED IN ISLAMABAD--'1'he antidrug squad of the customs police at
Islamabad airport seized heroin worth 25 million rupees on the international
market on 5 April. The heroia was packed in concealed compartments in two
suitcases bound for an overseas destination. [GF111440 Lahore JANG in Urdu
5 Apr 82 p 1]
HEROIN SMUGGLING BID FOILF.o--7.he Custcans Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC) arested a
Sri Lankan national on Monday for attempting to smuggle out refined heroin
powder weighing three kilograms at Karachi airport on Monday. Packed in 18
packets the heroin worth Rs. 3 million was concealed in the false bottom of a
suitcase belonging to Ponniah Milwaganam who was intercepted and arrested by
the DEC sleuths minutes before his departure to Amsterdam by a foreign air-
line. Investiqations revealed that his accomplice Babu had left for Holland
three days ago leaving the contraband with Milwaganam. Interpol has been in-
formed of Babu's movement while a search is in progress for lxal contacts of
the accused persans. [Karachi DAWN in English 23 Mar 82 p 10]
SMUGGLER r^INID--Mr Mushtaq Kazimi, Deputy Collector of Airport Custcans, im-
posed a penalty of Rs. three lakhs on German qirl Josette Erika Wawrzinek
while adjudicating the case of 'possession' of tw~o kilograms of heroin. The
passport of the German girl would remain with the Customs pending payment of
the fine. She was earlier fined Rs. 100,000 by the Special Judge (Customs)
Mr Ishtiaq Husain where she pleaded quilty to the charge of smuggling. This
was paid by her father who had arrived from Germany. Adjudfcation proceedings
are still pending agains~t the other accused in the case viz Mahammad Raza Mo-
basharfard, an Iranian studertt, caught with the girl on Oct. 27, 1981, with
2.25 kilos of heroin from his suitcase concealed in the false bottom, another
Iranian national M. Raza Taqavi (who is said to have :narried Erika after she
embraced Islam), and a third Iranian Ghulam Husain P,bidzada.~ Mobasharfard
was convicted for smuggling of 2.25 kilos of heroin by the court for six
months R.I. and a fine af Rs. one lakh, aqainat which he has filed a mercy
petition. [Karachi DAWN in English 26 Mar 82 p 18)
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INTERPOL-FIA COLIABORATION--The International Police have joined FIA~s
Passport Cell in investigating the drug trafficking case in which a number
of former airline employees were involvedo The Federal Police seized about
c~i~ht kilograms of heroine powder from them, Six dismissed PIA employees
and a serving PIA official was involved in the case, The FIA seized the
passport of accused Ghafoor B utt, the brother-in-law of a local police
officer from a local travel agento Meanwhile, search for Nadir Ali Khan
Durrani and one Stephen has s4arted in London by the Interpol. The police
are searching the other links in the national airline and also the business-
man who financed the whole racket, Police have raided several places late
on Monday night to find the absconding accusedo ~Text~ ~Karachi DAWN in
English 25 Mar 82 p 10~
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PHILIPPINES
STIFFER PENALTIES FOR DRUG USERS
Cebu City VISAYAN HERALD in Eiiglish 22 Mar 82 p 3
[Text] Stiffer penalties are now being imposed by the government to curb the
upward trend of drug abuse.
This was dislosed today by Mas~hr Sgt. Norberto Alvarada of the Constabulary
Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) befor~~ members of the Cebu Association of City and
Municipal Public Information Offi~ers (CAOCAMPIO) during its monthly meeting
at the Office of Media Affairs (OMA).
Alvarado, who was one of tw~o CANU speakers, said that violation of the anti-
druq abuse law may be in the form of sales, administration, delivery, acting
as broker, transmission, transportation and giving away of drugs classified
as regulated and prohibited by the Dangerous Drugs Board.
The CANU official also said that tougher penalties such as the increase of
prison terms from six to 12 years have been imposed on persons cauqht possess-
ing prohib~ted or regulated drugs.
According to Alvarado, cultivation af marijuana plants as source af prohobited
drugs is punishable under Section 9, Article 2 of Republic Act 6425.
In the same seminar, Sgt. Deterio Sanchez of CANU discussed the distinguishing
marks apparent among drug dependents and the rehabilitation and treatment of
the drug addicts at the Drug Abuse Rehabilitation Netw~ork (DARN) in Taguig,
Metro Manila.
In his talk, he urged the public infarmation officers to disseminate the in-
: formation to the barangay residents in their area.
Sanchez alsa briefed the CAOCAMPIO members on the sign and symptons of with-
drawal syndrome, which he said would always follow after the body of drug de-
pendents w~ould reach to such a hiqh point where it cauld tolerate the presence
of the drugs.
The CANU official pointed out that some cough syrups taken as substitute drugs
could not be confisaated and w~ould not be a ground for arresting the druq user
because these are never include in the list of the requlated and prohibited
~ drugs.
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PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS
WARNING ON HEROIN TRAFFIC--The dangerous drugs board warned yesterday against
a threatening increase of heroin traffic throughout the country because of
the opium bumper crop in Indochina's golden triangle. The board noted that
heroin traffic is already picking up in Manila, Cebu and Angeles City. The
country is not a lucrative market for heroin, but it is being ~sed as a
transit point in heroin international traffic; 267 grams of highly-addictive
heroin have been seized from 3 carriers since last year. The heroin was
being taken to the United States from either Pakistan or Thailand when inter-
cepted in the country. The dangerous drugs board also noted an increase in
marijuana cultivation, despite an intensifi~.3 enforcement of the amended
dangerous drugs law which provides stiffer penalties for offenders. In
view of this 3ituation, dangerous drugs board executive director (Manuel
Sumit) urged stepped-up preventive measures against drug abuse. [Text)
[HK100133 Manila Far East Broadcasting Company in English 2330 G*~IT 9 Apr 82]
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SRI IANKA
BRIEFS
C~1NJA PIANTATION RAIDED--A few officers attached to the Wildlife Department,
Buttala, along with a Police Sergeant attached to the Moneragala Police have
been successful in raiding a ganja chena 2 and 1/2 acres in extent. T'he
chena had been detected with the game reserve of the Ruhunu Park at a place
cai.led Kimbulagala. The ganja plants 2 and 1/2 feat in height and numbering
6,000 were subsequently destroyed by the authorities. ~Text~ ~Colombo
THF. ISLAND in English 15 Mar 82 p 2]
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s~x~,;~
POLITICAL FIGURE REFUSES TO BLAME U.S. FOR DRUG PROBLEM
Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 5 Mar 82 p 1
[Article by Gladstone Thurstonj
[ExcerptsJ When international drug runners make a mockery of Bahamas law en-
forcement agencies, "don't blame the United States. The fault is to be found
right here with us," warned Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly Henry
Bowen.
"I say, when our young men and young women become hook~;d on illegal drugs,"
Mr Bowen said, "that is not an American problem. It is a Bahamian problem
~*~d it is up to us to solve it
Mr Bowen, the Member of Parliament for West Grand Bahama and Bamini, was
addressing the Nassau Jaycees last night. The first par~ of his speech dealt
with the agenda of the House and how it works.
Those who occupy the seats of power in this country, he said, must be prepared
to grab the bull by the horns and "face up to our responsibilities. When we
find cha.os in the Ministry of Education, don't tell me it's the UBP's fault.
The UBP has been dead and buried for about 15 years.
"And when in~ernational druy runners make a mockery of our law enforcement
agencies don't blame the United States. The fault is to be found right here
with us."
Too many Bahamians, he said, are living in sub-standard housing. Too many
children, he said, are learning their ABC's in overcrowded, ill-equipped
classrooms.
He saw the dr~ig problem as "the single most ruinous element in our society to-
day." A few years ago, he racalled, it could be said with a great deal of
truth that Bahamians werE: only trading in dope, and in certain circles that
was considered chic and smart.
"Today, the picture has changed radically," Mr Bowen said. "We have expanded
our involvement from mere traders and handlers and we have now become users as
well.
"I say, when our young men and young women become hooked on illegal drugs,
that is not an American problem. Tt is a Bahamian problem and it is up to us
to ~olve it."
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BE RMtJDA
MINISTER CLAIMS YOUTH FALLING PREY TO DRUG PUSHERS
Hamilton THE ROYAL GP?ZETTE in English 13 Mar 82 pp 1, 5
[Te xt] Bermuda's youngste rs with time on their hanc7s are easy prey for druq-
pushers , The House of Assembly was told yesterday.
P.L.P. Shadaw Minister of Community Affairs Mr. Walter Brangman told M.P.s
that drug dealers had spread their web to the parishes and were not restrict-
ing their illicit trade to Hamiltcn as most people thought. Mr. Brangman was
stressing the need for the Ministry of Co~nmunity Affairs to concentrate saae
of its efforts on coordinating activities for young people who otherwise might
be drawn into drugs because they had nothing else to do.
The House was considering the coaning year's budget for the ~department.
Mr. Brangman said:
"Community Affairs must address itself to this problEta otherwise it beca~ttes a
farce.�
I would like to see it coordinate the a~ vities of existing organisations
like churches, P.T.A.s and parents and citizens and other clubs to provide
activities for children after schoal."
The shadcyw minister said many young people spent their time idly hanging
around where they becan?e involved with the sort of person who sold drugs.
"They get innocently caught up with drug pushers who find them easy prey,"
.
- Mr. Brangman sai.d.
He claimed that drug sellers were now qoing into neighbourhoods where the
Police least expected to find them.
Mr. Brangman also welco�ned new measures oa~ noise pollution, which he felt many
Bexmudians would be pleased with. '
But he had some criticism of the way the Coaimunity Services Department had o~
ganised the "Song for Bermuda" contest, which he said has displayed "a tremen-
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Ele urged the speedy setting up of the proposed Human Rights Commission, and
then went on to insist that non-Bermudians who came to the Island to work
should learn the local courtesies.
"They should adap'_ to our custams and pleasantries--that way racial confron-
tations of any sort can usually be avoided," Mr. Brangman said.
Mr. Calvin Smith, P.L.P., expressed his disappointment that the P.L.P. would
have little or no say in the membership of the new Human Rights Commission.
"T find that odd, because we on this side mainly represent the black popula-
tion and I would have thought it fair to assume that most cases to come be-
fore the Commission would be of a racial nature," Mr. Stnith said. He hoped
the Commission would not always side with loayl U.B.P. members and supporters.
And Mr. Smith regretted that Parish Vestries were no longer operating. These,
he said, could have acted as a forum where grievances could be heard without
going to the more formal Commission.
Meetings called by the Pembroke Hamilton Club in Warwick had led to a new
understanding between groups previously in conflict.
"Vestries would be an earlier stage for dialogue than the Commission," Mr.
Smith said.
Mr. Lancelot Swan, Parliamentary Secretary for Community Affairs, introduced
the debate on estimates for the Ministry.
On Co~ranunity Services he said the budget estimates were designed to increase
and improve community relations. The estimate of $400,750 was an increase of
more tr.an 10 percent on last year.
"This should improve and add new prograanmes," he said.
The Consumer Affairs bureau would continue to give its services to the public
and in conjunction with the two radio stations put out weekly broadcasts with
~ advice on consumer affairs.
The budget had also allocated $67,000 for Heritage Week celebrations and a
further $51,940 for the Human Rights Commission.
The names of inembers of the Commission would be announced soon.
The Bermuda Small Business Develop~ment Corporation has been granted no money
in the Budget estimates. Mr. S�aan said the purpose of the Corporation, at least
initially, was not to loan out money.. It woulu, however, help small businesses
raise bank loans on the provision of certain information from the firms.
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`l'WO CQPdVICTED IN HEROII~ S'NiUG;:tLING GIVEN 15-YEAR TENMS
Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 9 Mar 82 p 4
['Pext] ~~AMILTON, BERMUDA, Attorney-General Saul
b1ARCH 5, (CANA) - Two Froomkin, prosecuting. told
,nen found guilty of operating the court how Burrows aad
an international drug another person not before the
trafficking racket have each ~urt flew to London in
been jailed for 15 years here. December 1980 to find ' a
Bermudian Keith Bunows, heroin supply source for
3G, an unemployed father of Bermuda. They found that
three, and Alex Seriki, 24, a source through Soriki in the
British-born Nigerian who was person of Kitci, he said. ,
working in London as s Following that conapuacy,
telecommunications engineer, 12 to 13 aancea of heroin was �
were convicted of conspiring in obtained , and mailed tq
LonJon, Jamaica and Bermuda Bermuda, said Mr ~roomkin.
to import heroin, and of Arrangements were made for
importing heroin into Bermuda further shlpments to Bermuda
between December 1980 and between Seriki and the other
February 1981. person not before the court.
The heavy sentences brought In January 1981, Seriki and
tears to the eyes of Burrows' Kilci came to BeTmuda~
girlfriend, ~vith whom he lived, bringing a sample of heroin
and former htiss World Gina obtained f~om a Jamaican
Swainson, who were both in known as "Donny Brown."
court. "The accused Bunows
Boch defendants had ordered more heroin from
pleacied not guilty to the Kilci. Kilci ~nd Seriki went to
charttes. Jamaica' to obtain another,
A mong the prosecution four-and-half ouncea of 52 per
cent pure heroin," said Mr
witnesses during the week-lot~ Froomkin.
trial in supremo court wae Ali Kilct was arrested at the
Kilci, a Turkish-born fashion a ~rt here when he returned
~esixner, who is now servin8 a f om Jamaica, and co-o~erated
ten-year sentence here after W i t h n a r c o t ics aquad
admitting importing he~oin detectives, he added.
into Bermuda.
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BRAZIL
CAMPINAS POLICE ESTABLISH SYSTEM TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING
Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 1 Mar 82 p 22
[Text] Campinas--Tr.roughout the entire sectional police quarters which
includes 14 towns, the Campinas police force is establishing a new strict
system to combat all drug trafficking and drug addicts apprehended in
possession o� drugs. District chiefs of police known to be severe and well
acquainted with the sector are being selected as team leaders to prevent
the increase of trafficking, although Campinas is known as a marihuana
distribution center for South Minas Gerais and several Sao Paulo regions.
Within only 4 days of enforcing the new system, the Campinas district police
he~dquarters is showing results never before achieved: 30 in custody in the �
red-iight district and the "dregs of society," 6 small street dealers seized
with a r_otal of 2 kg of marihuana and deadly night shade in the main
trafficking areas.
In Amandio Malheiros L~~pes' opinion, the district chief of police, who is
enforcing this strict suppression, the results should be immediate: "The
return *.o classes was a factor which deeply worried us, for as a rule, it is
at this time that the traffickers are most active."
Ttiis, however, was not the predominating factor, said chief of police Valter
Otavio Fario Monteiro, 20 years on the police for:.e and a specialist in the
war on drugs and head of the new team: "Three years ago two district
healquarters engaged inthe work, today a specific sector is needed for this,
for besides marihuana, consumed by the lower class outer fringe, there are
~-?lso problemG with cocaine used by people with high purchasing power."
[~or the Campinas police, the main problem, even greater than the lack of
inspectors (there are only 8), is the dearth of data regarding traffickers.
Police delegate Valter Monteiro has therefore ID.ade appeals for "informed
citizens to telephone me, even anonymously, to pass along whatever they
knuw.
"This device," he insisted, "is necessary because investigation, in the
cocaine area, calls for considerable information from people who have
experience and are knowledgeable and informed."
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'The Gambling, Addiction and Narcotics Police Headquarters has a report on 12
main traffickers in the Campinas area. Of these, only 2, Silvio Gordinho
and Claudio Teodoro Ferreira Pestana, are serving time. The others, although
also denounced for involvement with killers, remain at large, but w~orking
in the areas according to reports which reached the police.
According to police delegate Amando Malheiros Lopes, the narcotics network has
~ sharply increased in the past decade: 10 years ago, mention of drugs was
unheard of in the hinterland. Even in Campinas, there were few cases. The
dissemination spread from the large to the small urban areas, rapidly
developing in modern society."
_ The cities which present most problems, the delegate stressed, are Campinas,
Americana, Itapira and Mogi-Mirim.
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BRAZIL
BRIEFS
RECORD MARIHUANA PLANTING BUST--Recife--At tr.e end of the week, government
bureau of security police and military policE seized 8.5 tons of marihuana
--17,000 feet--on the Aboboreira farm in Ouricuri Municipio--some 619
� kilometers west of the capital--belonging to Joaquim Dias da Silva who
~ managed to escape. According to Fernando Ribeiro, head of the department of
judiciary police, thi:: was the largest seizure of marihuana planting in the
past 10 years. On the Aboboreira Farm, the planted land was estimated at ~
:.~00 million cruzeiros. Between traffickers and planters, they seized six
people. One hundred and twenty men and several trucks and ~eeps transported
the marihuana seized to Ou�icuri city where it was burned on the public
square in the presence of a~~thorities and the population. The police believE~
that this seizure will enab_le them to reach other farms in the area. The
marihuana was ready for harvesting for use and would be distributed to
various Brazilian regions, mainly Sao Paulo and in the cities of Salvador
and Recife, where the most buyers are found. [Text]~ [Rio de Janeiro
JORNAL DO BRASIL in P~~rtuguese 1 Mar 82 p 14] 8870
CREATION OF REGIONAL I~RUG COUNCILS--Brasilia--The secretary general of the
Ministry of Justice, Arthur Castillo, who chairs the Federal Council of
Narcotics (COFEN), yesterday said he will ask th.e states secretaries of
justice to hasten the establishment of regional councils for the repression
of drugs. Work is underway similar to that being done in the United States and
Mexico to suppress production centers by destroying marihuana planting areas
and disrupting cocaine distribution operations. Castilho reported that the
regional councils will operate as "executive branches of COFEN policy." At
present, only in Rio de Janeiro is a council in operation similar to the
Federal Council of Narcotics. Now in Sao Paulo, Piaui and Rio Grande do Sul
the existing organizatians lack development. Castilho explained that
marihuana is the drug most used in the country "because of the ease with whi~:h
the lower classes can obtain it," addfng that from January to August 1981,
the Federal Police seized 229 tons of the product. They seized 90 kg of
cocaine during that period. He affirmed that there is no question of
countenancing use of marihuana: Those who uphold this idea base it on an
anachronistic thesis. ~A recent UN study proved that it is harmful to the
organism and the step toward dependence on other drugs. [Text] [Rio de
Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 26 Feb 82 p 6] 8870
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CO(:AINI's RiNG DtSBANDED IN AMSTERDAM--Yesterday the Dutch police reported in
Amsterdam that the week before they had seized 9 foreigners, among whom were
3 Brazilians and 2 Bolivians (whose names they did not disclose), and with ~
this they believe they have disrupted a cocaine traffic ring originating in
South America. Although they have found only a small amount of the drug, the
police spokesman said they believed that a drug ring had already brought many
kilos of cocaine into Holland and England. Also according to the spokesman,
the trafficers were discovered when, on Thursday, a 31-year-old Israeli
woman exchanged 300,000 florins (about 16.5 million cruzeiros) in an Amsterdam
bank and, as she appeared very nervous, detectives fol~owed her home, where she
was arrested together with a Brazilian man and woman, 2 Bolivians and a Swiss,
who had 5 grams of cocaine and 600,000 florins. Later, another Brazilian
and 2 Englishmen were seized with 35 grams of drugs. [Text] [Sao Paulo
0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 9 Feb 82 p 16] 8870
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MEXICO
AIVTIDRUG COORDINATOR DESCRIBES ZONAL PILOT PLAN ~
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 19 Mar 82 pp 1, 10
[Text] A scrupulous inspection is being conducted throughout all of Zone 06
of the permanent campaign against drug trafficking, as part of the pilot plan
that the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic has implemented for
the purpose of ascertaining the actual status of the work being done in the
effort undertaken by that offfice to examine this type of activity.
In making the foregoing statement, Hector Aviles Castillo, coordinator for the.
zone, said that Oscar Flores Sanchez, head of the Attorney General's Office,
had decided that, in order to carry out the plan, a larger number of aircraft
would be used in the destruction flights, with the use of special herbicides,
and tt~at, at the same time, an inspection would be made of all sections in
the shortest possible period of time.
Aviles Castillo explained that approximately 300 poppy, marihuana and mixed
plantations have been detected to date, which will be fumigated within a few
days; owing to the fact that, on 25 March, the deputy attorney general of
justice, Samuel Alba LPyva, located in Mazatlan, will make an evaluation of
the results accrued. ~
The Zone 06 coordinator added in his report that there will be 10 days of
activity in the program, which will be spent to allow 10 helicopters to
do the fumigation work, while an additional five machines and two small air-
craft will carry out the general reconnaissance of all sections.
Aviles Castillo explained that these activities are in addition to the normal
ones being performed by the personnel from the Attorney General's Office in
the campaign, because there must be no letup in the battle to prevent the
repetition of this type of illegal activity which is detrimental to mankind.
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
PLANE WITH MARIHUANA DOWNED--The marihuana seized 3 days ago from a Douglas
DC-6 airplane which made a forced landing 23 kilometers south of~Ciudad Juarez
was to be sold amor_g the Yankee underworld for $10 billion, or 45 million pesos.
The grass is of the very top quality, the so-called "gold of Colombia" type,
and came from Bogota. It was brought from there in 300 hales containing a total~
of 7 tons by the pilot, John Patrick Donahue, of New York; the copilot, Brandz
Russell,of Baltimore; and the Panamanian, Julian Nogueira. All three are
"mules" and exclusively shippers. They were hired by the major traffickers of
the United States and Colombia, and were to be paid a total of $125,000 for the
trip, which they began in the Bahama Islands. They loaded the drugs on a farm
in Colombia, and were to arrive in Chihuahua, refueling on a deserted clandestine
airstrip, and presumably continue on to New York. They said: "But we did not
find the signals ori the field in Chihuahua where we were supposed to land. We
spent an hour and a half flying between Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, and there
was no signal. Our aviation gas gave out, and therefore we went down where we
crashed." The case served to notify the authorities that, for some time,
large, fabulous shipments of grass and other drugs have been arriving in the
United States from Colombia via this border port; and that they refuel in the
Chihuahua area and continue their course from there. Not a word could be gotten
from them concerning those who hired them and who were the owners of the ship-
ment. [Text] [Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 16 Mar 82 Sec B p 2] 2909
TRAFFICKING JAIL OFFICIAL SOUGHT--Toluca, Mexico, 16 March (OEM)--State Judicial
Police agents from the state of Mexico are searching strenuously for the former
head of the Tlalnepantla district ~ail, for being connected with the drug traf-
fic as well as the sale of liquor while he was in charge of that ~ail. This
morning, several members of the State Judicial Police appeared at the district
jail to question various inmates who would know the whereabouts of Manuel
Niembro Miranda who, according to accounts given by a friend of his, is at
large in this town. But the Judicial Police are trying to find him in order
to put him behind bars, since he had been trafficking with bottles of liquor
inside the ~ail for 4 years. Manuel Niembro Miranda, who established a system
of terrorism and extortion in the district jail of which he was head, was
exploiting the inmates, by making them pay their weekly wages, amounting to
' S00 pesos per prisoner. The 370 inmates, many of whom enjoyed certain privi-
leges, were paying a sum of 3,000 pesos in order to be able to have a prison
block with television and be entitled to miss roll-call. [Text~ [Ciudad Juarez
EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 17 Mar 82 Sec B p 12] 2909
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MARIHUANA SHIPMENT BURNED--Nogales, Sonora, 19 March (PH)--Today, 35 kilograms
of mar~huana worth several thousand pesos were burned on the grounds of the
Health Center. The drugs were turned over for destruction hy the agency of
the Federal Pubpic Ministry. The burning of the grass was witnessed by the
health authorities, headed by the institution's head, Dr Luis Cervantes Garcia,
in accordance with the Health Cude, to file the report which will be sent to
the SSA [Secretariat of Health and Assistance] in Mexico City. When Dr Cervan-
tes Garcia w2s questioned about the origin of the marihuana, he said that it
had been seized in Nogales by Federal Judicial Police agents from Mr Jose
Romero Cazares Mascareno. He added that, with the destruction of the 35 kilo-
grams today, the agency of the Federal Public Ministry has made the fourth
shipment this year to the institution for immediate incineration. He noted
that this proves that the Federal Judicial Police a~tion against the drug
traffic is becoming increasingly efficient, with several persons arrested
during the first months of the year. Once the confiscated drugs are in the
possession of the health authorities, they are destroyed immediately, he
claimed, remarking that this procedure will continue to be used so as not to
confront any risks. [Text] [Hermosillo EL IMPARCIAL in Spanish 20 Mar 82 Sec
A p 17] 2909
TRAFFICKER CLAIMS TORTURE--Yesterday, Prisciliano Martinez Martinez made his
preliminary statement in the third district court, having been accused by the
agent of the Federal Public Ministry of a crime against health. This indivi-
dual had for some time been engaged as a"mule", in other words, as a shipper
ot marihuan~ from the interior part of the country to the border. He later
undertook the business on his own, with the aid of someone residing in the
United States, to whom he was selling the aforementioned grass for $250 per
pound. When the Federal Judicial Police agents captured him in Miguel Aleman,
this subject had just moved 45 kilograms, carrying a suitcase which contained
traces. He claimed that it was for his personal use, and also for Juan Cardenas
and his brother, Martin, who were with him at the time of his arrest. He told
all this to the agent of the Federal Public Ministry, but denied it to the
juage, claiming that he had been severely tortured for over 10 days, since the
time of his arrest. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 11 ~far 82 Sec D
p 4] 2909
WAItDEN CHAF.GEll WITH ESCAPE--The warc~en of the Reynosa jail, Leonel Garcia
Ol.ivares, is being held in the jail in this town, and action is being taken
agalnst him for the escape of prisoners. Yesterday, he made his preliminary
statement in the second district court regarding the incident, denying that
t~e participated in the escape of Jesus Carrillo Barraza, a drug trafficker
acknowledged as the vice czar on the border. Members of the Federal Judicial
I'olice succeeded in arresting this individual in Reynosa on Tuesday night,
ancl immediately transferred him to this town in order to place hira at the
disposal of the pertinent judicial authorities. The second district ~udge
issued a warrant for the ar-rest of Leonel Garcia Olivares, and it was executed
on Tuesday night. The case of the escape of Jesus Carrillo Barraza had strong
repercussions throughout the entire region, and there was talk that several
prison officials had been involved in Carrillo Barraza's escape, and that
several million pesos had been paid to allow him to flee. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo
r.?, MANANA in Spanish 11 Mar 82 Sec D p 4] 2909
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'I'KA~FTCKI:R FQUNn IN ClISTOUY--Antonio i.egsgpi (~uirtirte, the fel~ntouN murdc~rer
;~ncl drug trafficker, ee11 into the hands of the State Judicial Police. Two
agents from the entity commanded by Mr Hector Mario Varela, Brandy and Jaquez,
visited the Social Rehabilitation Center [CERESO] and they were greatly
surprised to see Tony among the inmates. They had been searching for him
a long time, since 13 January 1978, when that individual shot Luis Vallina
Rodriguez to death with a 45-caliber pistol. Since that date, Legaspi, who
of course is a member of tlie ~amily whose relatives have been involved in so
much trouble, had been at large, ~leeing and hiding. He finally entered the
United States and went back to his old tricks there, becoming involved in
drug trafficking. They arrested him and, after serving a sentence, he was
sent to this town in an exchange of prisoners. It was not learned how long he
had been in the CERESO, but he used a different name. And he would have stayed
for a long time if. Brandy and Jaquez had not recognized him. Legaspi said
ttiat, on 13 January 1978, in the E1 Capitan bar located on the highway leading
to Casas Grandes, he had actually killed Luis Estrada Vallina, or Luis Vallina
Hernandez, who was then 33 years old. They were presumably arguing over drugs;
both the murderer and his victim were trafficking in drugs, and they also
stole cars. At the time that Antonio shot Vallina, Alfonso Garcia Torres was
with them. It was the latter who identified Legaspi as the murderer. Comdr
Varela Mendoza noted that he had been sought since that time. [Text] [Ciudad
Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 13 Mar 82 Sec B p 2] 2909
COCAINE SHIPMENT SEIZED--Mexico City, 6 Apr (NOTIMEX)--A shipment of cocaine
valued at 300 million pesos in the black market was intercepted today by federal
agents stationed at Mexico City International Airport. Homer James Rios, an
American, arrived her.e on Aeromexico Flight 420 from Venezuela. He was carr}~-
ing 6 kilos 350 grams of pure cocaine and 22 doses of LSD in a false-bottom
suitcase. The foreigner had made contact at the "OSTAL San Isidor" hotel in
Lima, Peru, with a drug traffiker named "Mike" who gave him about 16 1/2 kilos
of the narcotic. Together with a friend he identified as John Saxton, he
attempted to travel from Lima to Mexico, but as they placed their baggage con-
taining 10 kilos of pure cocaine on the baggage belt they saw they were to be
inspected with the use of drug detecting dogs. They left the baggage which
was subsequently found by Mexican authorities. The drug traffikers then pro-
ceeded to Chile and later to Venezuela by road. James Rios then boarded the
Mexican airline only to be arrested by Mexican federal agents. [FL071400
Mexico City NOTIMEX in Spanish 0440 GMT 7 Apr 82]
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
CRIME, INFLUX OF WEAPONS ATTRIBUTED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING
Port-of-Spain SUNDAY GUARDIAN in English 21 Mar 82 p 5
[Text] Too much money chasing or trying to buy too few goods. Economists view
this situation as the classical example or ammunition that fuels inflation.
What they say in effect is that artifically-created or real shortag.es cause the
price of the needed produc~ to move upwards constantly.
This even extends to price-controlled goods (like onions, potatoes and chicfi-
ens) being sold openly and under the counter at black market prices when in
short supply.
In simple language, it bxings into play inborn crookedness and the larcenous
streak in your friendly merchant, grocer or wayside vendor.
The motto enacted is to "make as much as possible--money-wise and customer-
foolish--while the going is good and the stocks last."
Too much money on the loose leads to another type of painful inflation. It
sets up the stage for the increase in crime--particularly violent robberies
and street crimes.
This is the situation today in Trinidad and Tobago. Criminals are striking it
rich preying on people walking around with a lot of oil dollars.on their per-
son, along with jewelry and other valuables.
Thriving business places and their bank-depositing couriers and messengers
are prime targets for the money-hungry bandits.
Aggravated robberies, hold-ups, snatch-and-grab thefts, burglaries and muggings
are being churned out at the alaxming rate of an average four-plus crimes a day
for the current year. No lack of productivity in this fielrl with three months
of 1982 not yet completed.
Crime statistics compiled by the Modus Operandi Bureau of the Criminal Inves-
tigations Department (CID) showed that 324 robberies were recorded up to
mid-March.
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What is particularly disturbing is the frequent use of firearms and knives
in the carrying out of the robberies. Figures show that 232 of the 324 re-
ports involved the use of guns or knives.
Guns were brought into play in 74 instances. Knife-toting bandits went into
action on 158 terrifying jobs. ~
A picture of rapidly spiralling crime emerges from the robbery statistics of
1980-82. There were 760 reports for 1980, jumping by nearly 200 to 937 last
ye ar .
The pattern is consistent in gun-related robberies. This sector climbed by
100 from 245 in 1980 to 345 in 1981. Knife reports almost doubled during the
same period from 197 in 1980 to 364 last year.
Nightmares
Knife-brandishing robberies for the two-and-a-half months of this year alone
are fast approaching the averall 1980. It has reached 158--just 39 short of
the 197 in 1980.
The existing situation begs the following questions:
Why the upsurge of violent economic crimes?
VJhere are the guns coming from since this is not supposed to be the Wild West
where every creed and race enjoys an equal place to possess firearms freely?
How are the police farinq in fighting and solving crimes?
Who are the people involved and or committing the crimes?
Answers or explanations to these queries entailed discussions with Police Com-
missioner Randolph Burroughs and other law enforcement officers.
Wilere ancl how are the criminals gettinq their arms? This opened up new vistas
of illicit activities that is causing the police endless headaches and night-
marish dreams.
It has to do with the profitable and highly-dangerous indulgence in the drug
trafficking trade. Both soft and hard drugs are involved...mainly marijuana
and cocaine.
Drug traders are flooding the country with arms, mainly for use as a protec-
tive measure in their illegal operations.
A senior police official explained that the multy-million-dollar drug trade
had a definite Venezuelan connection, with the neighbouring republic being
used as a jump-off or transit point for drugs bound for Trinidad.
He said that the sea-faring suppliers "usually protect their stuff while being
heavily armed. Having disposed of the cargo, they sell or leave their weapons
with their local contacts."
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The drug problem takes on new di.mensions with open gang warfare in which
several people have been killed and others shot or shot at.
Why the drug trade battles? It follows a pattern in most metropolitan coun-
tries. One is the question of territorial rights. Operators carve out cer-
tain turfs or jurisdictional areas. They ~aill defend to their own death, and
others, L-he intrusion oi drug-supplying trespassers into their domain.
Tnis explains in part how guns reach the criminal market or underworld. Other
sources of supply are concentrated thefts from licensed and authorised fire-
arms holders---not excluding the police and security guards.
There is another aspect to the drug-related gang warfare. It has to do with
a type of robbery that cannot be reported to the police...stealing produce
from marijuana plantations.
This has a sort of town-man s~ndrome. The officer explained: "Despite con-
stant police activi*_ies and destruction of plantations, marijuana continues to
be cultivated with loving and profitable, care.
"Some of the dealers from the bright lights and not accustomed to the sort of
hard life in the forests wait until the crop is ready and move in to reap...
ttlis is where the trouble begins and bullets fly.
He addec:: 'Then again there is the natural inclination of pushers to hold
back on payments to suppliers...that is dangerous business. Trouble also
breaks out when the police intercept or manage to get hold of stocks through
raids.
"The suppliers do not always accept this as a valid reason for non-payment
and sometimes do not believe this really happened."
Crime in Trinidad and Tobago Yias become too big a problem to be left in the
hands of the police. Crime is a national problem involving all the citizenry-
...whether as criminal, victim or potential witness. So whether you like it
cr. not, you are involved.
Commissioner Burroughs is pleadfng for a crime concerned community and public
support.
Ete was a b~t stumped for ar. answer when I asked him "who is winning the crime
war...the police or the criminals?"
Brural Acts
I rephrased the question to inquire what pexcentage of crimes were being
so!.ved by the police. He declined a direct answer, stating that a single per-
son may have committed scores of crimes in say 1980 and 1981 and not caught in
1.982...so that the ratio solved. at a particular time was not a good yardstick
to guage effectiveness.
Ttiis to my own thinking was another way of saying that the crooks are on top.
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Mr. Burroughs said that the reason why the police was not receiving full
support from the public was the constant portrayal of the police being in-
volved in brutal acts.
He said this creates a lack of confidence in the police which was mostly un-
jusLified. Every accusation against police officers, he said was investigated
and appropriate action taken..."like every department everywhere there are
good and bad...I would like the public to think of policemen as their friends."
Who are committing the cri.mes? Another officer said that repeaters or known
criminals are mainly responsible, "but are allowed bail to continue their
a.ctivities.
"We can object to bail, which we do...but we still operate under the legal
system that a person is not guilty of an offence until proven in court.
"They usually chalk up a series of crimes-...sometimes looking for money for
their lawyers...and after convicted on offence...plead guilty to the others
and get concurrent instead of consecutive sentences to prison. The hardened
criminals take advantage of this position."
Violent economic crimes in Trinidad and Tobago in the main have nothing to do
with deprivati~n. It is not a case of the poor and disadvantaged stealing
from the rich to satisfy basic needs.
Victims of hold-ups come in all categories--labourers, salesmen, lawyers and
aven thieves.
Jobs are available in abundance even for the unskilled. Despite the avail-
ability of jobs, unemployment runs about 11 per cent of the 400,000-plus work
force.
It is not really unemployment...it is just that young people are pickinq and
choosing what type of work they want to do whether qualified or not for the
tasks.
They are drawn into crime to satisfy their urge for easy money. It sometimes
turns out to be a painful and hazardous occupation risking police bullets and
prison.
Chances of being caught seem to diminsh daily...so the muggers and hold-up
men take a swing and hopefully come up with dollars and jewellry. ~
They find it less exhausting to rob a drunk or unsuspecting passerby than
sweat it or even idle on a job for eight hours. It takes less than a minute
to press a knife in the back of a victim and run away $500 and a$1,500
bangle.
Criminals are helped in their trade by the large amount of cash being carried
around casually by ordinary folk.
Does crime really pay? Ask the criminals.
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EGYPT
OPIUM SMUGGLED FROM INDIA SEIZED
Cairo THE EGYPTIAN GAZETTE iri English 19 Mar 82 p 2
[Text] Opium worth $3 million wae confiscated at Cairo Airport on Wednesday when
police foiled an attempt to smuggle it into the country by an Egyptian amuggler
coming from India for the first time, police sources said.
The opium was smuggled aboard an EgyptAir jet coming from Bombay. The smuggler was
said to be an asaistant of a big drug trafficker in the Batnia, the notorious den
of drug dealera in Cairo. As a cover the smuggler was accompanied by his wife,
the sources added.
The PoLice were tipped off that international smugglers who had contacts with drug
dealers in the Batnia, had resumed their activities in amuggling narcotics into the
country. They had set on devicing new methods and changed their source from Paki-
stan to India, they said.
Information received by the police revealed that they had planned to smuggle a
large amount of opium through an accomplice whom they had recently recruited. He
was an antiquities dealer in Khan E1 Khalili who went to India to fetch the con-
signment.
When he returned he was arrested at Cairo Airport with the opium hidden in four
suitcases. He admitted the attempt and report~d to the police his accomplices.--GSS
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IRAN
BRIEFS
MARCH DRUG HAUL--Gendarmerie officials of Lorestan, Khorasan, Fars, Zahedan and
Eastern Azarbayjan seized 6.37 kg of heroin and 51.616 kg of opium during the
past week. [GF140547 Tehran JOMHtJRI-YE ESLAMI in Persian 30 Mar 82 p 2]
OPIUM SEIZED IN DARAB--Darab Revolution Guards Corps members have seized 2.6
kg of opium from one person. [GF140424 Shiraz Domestic Service in Yersian
1530 GMT 13 Apr 82]
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BRIEFS
DAGGA SEiZID~-Durban.--About 30 baqs of dry dagga, worth several-thousand
rand, were seized by the police early yesterday at a roadblock near Estcourt,
Natal. The police set up a road block near the northern Natal town shortly
after 2 am yesterday. They signalled down a liqht delivery van travelling
from the coast towards Johannesburg. They searched the vehicle and found the
dagga concealed in the back of the van. The tw~o Black occupants of the vehi-
~ cle w~re arrested. Police believe the dagga was cultivated in the Transkei
and was due to be sold to the black market in Johannesburg. [Text] [Johannes-
burq THE CITIZEN in English 30 Mar 82 p 9]
CSO: 5300/5694
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DENMARK
TWO TURKS ARRESTED IN LARGE HF~tOIN-SMUGGLING CASE
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 23 Mar 82 Sec II p 1
[Article by Anders Wiig~
[Text] Two Turkish drug gai:qsters tell a Danish court sitting
~vith a jury about millions of ~troner worth of smuggling.
In April of 1980, a lamp and souvenir dealer in the bazaar quarter of
Istanbul was in such serious financial difficulties that he even con-
templated committing suicide. A high rent and the lacking demand among
to,zrists in connection with the rumors of devaluation had landed him in
deb~, so that he saw no way out for himself, his wife, and their two small
children. This story was told by 31-year-old Omer Taskiran yesterday during
a session of a court sitting with a jury in Copenhagen. That is why he
smuggled 3 kilos of heroin into Denmark on 30 April 1980 and participated
in the smuggling into the country of 4 kilos of heroin on 1 November.
This is also a story about how Turkish heroin turned into Austrian cut-
glass pendants wh~ch are used for Turkish chandeliers sold in the bazaars
of Istanbul. The rescuer of Taskiran was his former boss, a manufacturer
of lamps, to whom he was apprenticed before starting his otim shop. In
April of 198U, the said manufacturer and his friend were in need of a
courier to take 3 kilos of heroin to Copenhagen. Taskiran accepted the
job as well as the offer of receivin$ 300,000 kroner of the 900,000 l~oner
which a gan~ of Turkish drug dealers was to pay for the heroin in Copen-
ha~en. .
Moved to Less Expensive Hotel
Together with an unsuspecting friend, and with the heroin hidden in the
heater of the car, Taskiran started the tri'p to Denmark, was delayed by
a snow storm for a couple of days i.n Austria, reached Copenhagen on 30
April, took a room at Hotel Mercur, moved to a less.expensive hotel the
next day, found the Turkish club in Viktoria Street, where he asked for
the two fellow countrymen who were to receive the heroin.
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The,y were Yilmaz Crunes, 36, a waiter and a sort of manager and adviser of
the club as well as the owner of a tobacconist's shop, furthermore Ahmet
Tokmak, 3'7, a laborer and dealer in Turkish meerschaum pipes. Gunez
arrived a few minutes after Taskiran had asked for him, Taskiran stated
yesterday. They drove to the hotel, where the smugglers pulled out the
black package containing the heroin, put it in a bag with an old shirt on
top of it, and gave it to Gunez. Taskiran had no more money but, the
nFxt day, received "pocket money" from Gunez. His co-accomplices in
Turkey told him on the telephme to collect part payment of the 900,000
kroner, +.o collect the remainder of the money later on and to return home
when all of the money had been collected.
Taskiran went to stay with his friends, the Senyus family in Hamburg.
The police have arrested Ahmet Altan Senyus, 37, a highly educated
businessman, a~torr~ey and economist, who has been charged with belonging
ro the gang of smu~;~lers, which charge he totally denies. Taskiran him-
self rriaintains that his friend knew nothing about his shady business
affairs, and that it was entirely out of friendliness that Senyus went
with him to Copenhagen when he had to collect money. And it was a mere
coincidence that they drove back to Turkey together in June.
Taskiran only succeeded in collecting 580,000 kroner. Part of the money
he collected he spent on his stay. He invested 20,000 German mark in
SFnyl~s' '~usiness in Hamburg, ?2,747 German mark were transferred from a
bank account in Hamburg to his former employer in Istanbul. The remainder
of the 580,000 kroner he casheci when leaving for home. On the way, he
bought Austrian cut-glass pendants for his former boss's lamp production
wi.th part of the money. The out~tandin~ 320,000 kroner from the deal in
Copenhagen were, as far as he knew, sabsequently transferred to Istanbul.
He states that he himself got the 300,000 kroner out of it which were
promised to him. His par.ticipation in the smuggling of another 4 kilos
of heroin was not dealt with by the court yesterday.
~rJhat happened to the 3 kilos smuggled into the country on 30 April':
Ahmet Tokmak told the cour+. sitting ~aith a jury about that. In the
Turkish club, his fellow countryman Mehmet had stated that a quantity of
heroin would be arrivin~ in town. Tolanak could take that ov~r from their
joint acquaintance, Yilmaz Gunes. As his friend and partner in the im-
port business of ineerschaum pipes, Brian Hassig, would like to get hold
of sorne heroin for resale, and as Hassig had a debt of 20,000 kroner,
for which Tolanak had become sur�ety, Tokmak concluded the deal. He did
not have in mind his own profits, he told tne public prosecutor, who
strongly called this statement in question. Tokmak did, indeed, make
;00,000 kroner on the deal.
He collected twice 1 kilo in a plastic bag from Gunes, the waiter, at
his place of worlc, Dan Hotel. Hassig, who was sentenced to 5 years'
imprisonrrent in the City Court of Copenhagen, received the heroin in
several lots, partly at the Turki~h club and partly at the home of Tolanak
and paid 1.2 million kroner for it. The latter tied a rubber band around
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I:Y~e bi~ndles of banl;notes and gave 900,000 kroner, which he carried in his
~ocket, to Gunes and Taskiran, the smuggler.
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' He does not lrnow what Gunes did with the last kilo of the heroin ~mug$led
i from Istan~aul. 0. Waage-Jensen, public prosecutor, wanted to know if he
~ did no+, think of the terrible harm he would be causing the drug addicts.
~ Tol4nak answered: "I became aware of it when the second kilo was delivered
~ and I saw how Brian looked when he himself used some of the heroin."
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DENMARK
TURKISH GANG SENTENCED IN HEROIN SMUGGLIN(~ CASE
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 31 Mar 82 p 1
[Article by Anders Wiig]
[Text] The high court dealt a hard blow when it sentenced a Turkish nar-
cotics gang yesterday to prison terms rangi:~ from 2 to 10 years in length
for smuggling in 7 kilograms of heroin. The six members of the gang were
sentenced to a total of 42 years in prison.
Lamp dealer Omar Taskiran, 31, received the maximum sentence under the law,
10 years in prison. The leader in Denmark, 37-year-old'pipe dealer Ahmet
Tokmak, was given 9 years. Both were involved in two smuggling episodes of
3 and 4 kg respectively. Tokmak was also sentenced for the sale of 300
grams of heroin from another "source." Waiter Yilmaz Gunes was given 7
years for receiving and selling 3 kg of heroin in May 1980 and his 22-year-
_ old brother Altan was given 2 years for trying to help Taskiran get hold of
the 4-kg shipment in November 1980. It was this shipment that the police
seized en route from the Rodby ferry. The smuggler, Fethi Uzulmez, a 32-
year-old factory worker from~Nuremberg who brought the 4 kg of heroin into
the country, was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Finally, businessman Ahmet Altan Senyus of Hamburg was sentenced to 8 years
in prison. Despite the flat denials made by him and the other accused men,
the jury decided there was evidence that he had assisted in bringing in
4 kg.
The evidence against Senyus consisted entirely of telephone wiretaps and his
connection with Taskiran. Among other things ::he latter had lived with
Senyus for 6 weeks while he made several trips to Copenhagen to obtain money.
When the evidence was being presented, both men claimed that Senyus believed
these were legal money transactions. In a series of wiretapped phone con-
versations between the two men, the words heroin and narcotics were not
mentioned--the word "materials" occurred in connection with shirt sewing.
Otherwise, judging from the choice of words, the talks appeared to concern
mainly the importation and manufacture of lamps for the existing and legal
shop in Hamburg which the two men own jointly as well as a sudden lack of
liquidity. In view of the sentence, these must be presumed to have been
codes and circumlocutions. Senyus was sentencad for being one of the
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"respectable" men who never touch drugs themselves but stand behind heroin
smuggling and obtain money from it. This was substantiated in part by the
fact that he was arrested in Taskiran's hotel room on the very evening when
the gang was waiting for the 4 kilograms of heroin.
6578
CSO: 5300/2253
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DENMARK
BRIEFS
DROP IN NARCOTICS DEATHS--In 1981, 148 Danish drug addicts died as a direct
and immediate result of their habit. The mortality statistics were made
available yesterday by the Copenhagen narcotics police, but the figure is
for the entire country. In 1980, 165 narcotics deatlis were noted and in
1979 the figure was 125. Detective superintendent Bent Hansen: "The
figures are still terribly high, but we can hope that the decline in rela-
tion to 1980 indicates a decline in the number of addicts. And we can hope
that reventive efforts in ttce schools and elsewhere have had an effect."
[Text~ [Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 31 Mar 82 p 3] 6578
CSO: 5300/2253
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ICELAND
MORPHINE REMOVED FROM LIFE BOATS; OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING
Reykjavik MORGUNBLADID in Icelandic 27 Feb 82 p 46
[Text] Officials of the National Nautical Board have
recently ordered morphine and other habit-forming drugs
to be removed from the Icelandic fleet's rubber life
boats. Other drugs, which are not habit-forming, will
continue to be kept on the boats.
"Most doctors have been quite opposed to removing morphine and other addic-
tive drugs from the rubber lifeboats," said H~almar R. Bardarson, head uf
t';e National Nautical Board, in an interview with MORGUNBLADIL~. "But I had
a ~~tudy done on how frequently it has been necessary to use morphine and
other strong addictive drugs in nautical accidents off our coasts. The
results showed that most probably it would never be necessary to use these
drugs. When this became clear, I thought it was obvious that morphine
should be removed from the boats, since people have always broken into them
to steal the morphine and other addictive drugs. I believe that it is more
important for the boats to go out in one piece than to run the risk that,
because of vandalism, they won't work when we need them."
Bardarson said further, "It made my decision easier when Olafur Olafsson, the
surgeon general, supported me in this matter. Then we had the National
Nautical Board go ahead and remove the morphine and other addictive drugs
from the rubber lifeboats."
The National Nautical Board has recently printed a pamphlet for use with the
rubber lifeboats. This pamphlet is the f irst in a series of specialized
publications the National Nautical ~oard intends to publish. The pamphlet
explains the use of the boats in detail, including their contents. These
National Nautical Board pamphlets will be packaged in watertight wrappers
and installed in the rubber lifeboats so that people will have instructions
on board when they need them.
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ITALY
FOUR HEROIN SMUGGLERS ARRESTED IN BARI
, Bari LAGAZZETTA DEL MEZZOGIORNO in Italian 2 Mar 82 pp 1, 2
[Article by Ettore Giorgio Poti]
[Text] Brindisi--Another heavy blow has been dealt to the drug trade, that
; squalid market which yields such high profits and reaps so many victims. Four
drug dealers were caught in a trap set by agents of the Finance Guard of Rome.
~ It is not known whether they are big or medium-sized fish, but they are cer-
tainly not small ones: this is clear both from their records, which place
' them fairly high up in the underworld, and from the large value (about 1 bil-
lion lire at current prices) of the merchandise they were carrying.
Three of the four who were arrested are from Andria, and belong to that Bari
underworld which has long since made a"qualitative leap" from cigarette
smuggling to the lucrative but abominable drug trade, passing quickly and
almost inexorably from light drugs to heavy ones.
~ Deputy Prosecutor Dr. Di Bonito has rightly said that the drug trade has been
taking root and spreading in Puglia, too. This prediction was based on two
simple observations: the growing volume of traffic in the port of Brindisi
and the strategic position of Puglia (especially the strip from Brindisi to
. Bari), which is almost a crossroads along the way to the various destinaticns
o` drugs. Vigilance has been increased and perfected in recent years, of
course, with better training for agents and better methods.
The results of the operation in Brindisi late Sunday night were undoubtedly
important. The news has ~ust come out naw. Officers and deputy off.icers of
' the central nucleus of the fiscal police of Rome's Finance Guard were respon-
~ sible for the action. They came to Brindisi on purpose, which leads one to
believe that this operation was part of a much larger one that may have al-
ready led to important developments and have more in store. This may mean
that a determined offensive is underway against a vast national and interna-
tional organizatian.
The four men who were arrested were Giovanni Moschetta, 34 years old, and
Antonio Musci, 58 years old, both born and residing in Andria (the former in .
the San Valentino district, the latter at 74 Via De Gilio); Sabino Conversano,
' 32 years old, born in Andria and residing in Trani (14 Via C. Colombo); and
~ Mauro Rocchetti, 31 years old, a Roman residing at 1 Via Cerisai. False docu-
ments were found in the possession of Moschetta and Rocchetti: the former
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had an identity card bearin~ tlie name Ve11a, the latter a passport in the name
of Convers~ln~.
'~t~e Roman fiscai police agent~~ evidently knew at least three of the four men
~aell. Sunday ni~tit they stationed themselves opposite the maritime station and
F~atched from a distance as the passengers got off the "Eolos," a ferry coming
from Patras and Corfu. They spotted the three men they were looking for, and
waited while they approached a fourth awaiting them on the pier. The four men
then walked out of the mari.time station toge~ther. As soon as they left the
customs area the fiscal police coent into action, blocking their way and lead-
in~ them strai~ht to the l.ocal headquarters of the Finance Guard. The four
men were carryin~ two suitcases.
Tliey expressed surprise and annoyance. "We have nothing to hide," they said.
Rut the fiscal police knew k~hat they were looking for and where to look for it.
T1~ev found four lar~e plastic envelopes containing 2.68 kg of very pure and
_ l~i~}~ly concentrated heroin carefully hidden in a false bottom of one of the
Guitcases. 'Itao oj the envelopes were even marked "quality brand" and "Doume
L'~~Tlabe" and hore various Asian hieroglyphics. Considering the fact that every
era~n ot this very pure and concentrated heroin yields many doses--each worth
f~0,0i)~-7!?,~00 lire--when mixed with varj.ous substances, the real market value
nf t:l~e ~~onf~scatec.l drugs ~~as about 1 billion lire. When the heroin was found
r}~~ r~~tr men, who could no longer deny their guilt, fell silent.
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CSO: 5300/2242
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NETHERLANDS
PROGRESS, PRUBLEMS IN AMSTERDAM DRUG SCENE
Brussels LA LIBRE BELGIQUE in French 23 Mar 82 p 5
[Text] The municipality of Amsterdam has decided to asphalt
the Zeedi~k, one of the "hot" streets in that Dutch port city,
to prevent illicit heroin peddlers from hiding their inven-
tory under the loose cobblestones. The city has already
barricaded doors and windows in cafes where the drug trade
was flourishing, and after the asphalting is finished, it
will demolish others. A luxury hotel will then be built on
the cleared site. The end of the Zeedi~k, where the arrival
of heroin used to be announced in ideograms on the shopwin-
dows of Chinese merchants, will no doubt mark the end of an
era.
It was 10 years ago that heroin made its mass entry into Amsterdam. But it is
crime, the corollary of drugs, rather than the drug itself, whicr. Dutch author-
ities are trying hard to contain. And cleaning up the Zeedi~k, although not
yet completed, should help in that effort. The first result: the heroin trade
has spread to other corners of the city. Wim Polak, Amsterdam's top health
official, says: "What else can we do? In any case, foreign tourists will have
to search for 2 or 3 days before they find suppliers. At least we will have
accomplished that much."
In recent years, according to Dutch police, Amsterdam has lost its title as
the capital of easy heroin to Berlin, Rome, and Frankfurt.
But there are still addicts. In The Hague, three ministries (~ustice, health,
and culture) have set up a~oint force to help the addicts. That group is not
interested in the unknown number of "weekend users," who stock up on heroin on
Friday evenings and seem to avoid the trap of addiction.
The help is concentrated on the true drug addicts who have taken refuge in a
hard drug because they can't stand themselves or because they re~ect their en-
vironment: society. Those responsible for the policy of helping addicts point
out: "We can't change society. But we are trying to equip our clients better
with psychological and social support."
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c;vcr 700 consultation and assistance offices are operating throughout the