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JPRS L/9543
11 February 1981
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Worldwide Re ort -
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NARCOTI~S AND DANGER~US DRUCS
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WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FnUO 7/81)
CONTENTS
- ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Party Leader Calls f or Cooperation in War on Drugs
(THE AUSTRAI,IAN, 23 Dec 80) 1
NSW Police Given New Search Powers for Drug Cases
(Catherine Harper; THE SYDNEY MOftNING HERAI,D,.1~, 17 Dec 801... 2
Cabinet Agreement
Imposition of Restrictions
New Law for West Aimed at Big Drug Dealers - -
(THE WEST AUSTRAI,IAN, 29 Nov 80) 6 -
Court Upholds Deportation Order on Drug Dealer -
(Verge Blunden; THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 18 Dec 80) 7
Detection Devices To Trap Heroin F7.ights in North
(THE AUSTRALIAN, 12 Dec 80) 9
Heroin Sm.ugglers Said To Be Part of International Ring
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 15 Dec 80; THE AGE, 17 Dec 80) 10 !
- Sydney Arrests
Bangkok Link
Pair Held in New Zealand May Belong to Adelaide Ring
(Peter B1un~Cn; THE AUSTRALIAN, 23 Dec 80) 12
_ Zampaglione, Cohorts Get 25 Years for Heroin Dealing
(Frue Innes; THE AGE, 11 Dec 80) .......v 11~
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Two Heroin Dealers Givei~ 3-Year Jail Terms
- (THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 26 Nov 80) 16 -
Griffith Farmer Gets 3 Yeaxs for Growing Marihuana
(THE AUSTRALIAN, 18 Dec 80) 17
Brief s
Cannabis Resin S~nuggling 18
: Fregnant Trafficker 18
Coast Watch Call 18
Queensland Drug Record 7-9
Confiscation of Profits 19 -
Addiction in West 1~
Booby-Trapped Field 20
Hemp Smuggler 20
_ Tombini: 7 Years 20
Jail for Heroin Dealer 20
Pharmacists~ Concerns 27-
Prisoners in Court 21
_ Six on Heroin Charge 21
Marihuana Growing . 27-
Two Heroin Traffickers 22
- Two Americans Chaxged 22
INDONFSIA
Brief s
, Court Reduces Heroin Case Sentet~ce 23
LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA -
Bri ef s "
Coca Arrest 2~
BAHAMAS
- Tighter GoJernment An~i-I7rug Measures Urged
(Etienne Dupuch; THE TRIBUNE, 18 Dec 80) 25
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BERMUDA
Airport Employee cn Trial for S~nuggling Cannabis
(THE ROYAI, GAZETTE, 7, 10 Jan 81) ~7
Story of Arrest
Jury Acquittal
BOLIVIA
Brief s
Traffickers, Counterfeit Money 29
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COLCJMBIA
Meta Assembly Wants To I,egalize Marihuana
(Arnoldo Falla; EL TIEP'IPO, 2 Dec 80) 3~
Colombian Diplomat Seized With Cocaine
(Hector Rodriguez V.; EL TIEI~4P0, 6 Dec 80) 31
F-2 Strik es Major Blow Against Morphine Ring
(EL ESPECTADOR, 11 Dec 80) 33
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Brief s
Mar~ihuana Seized in San Pablo 35
Marihuana, 16 Traffickers Seized 35 -
JAM~;ICA '
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Editorial Sees Anomalies in Local, U.S. Marihuana Laws
' (Editorial; THE DAIZY GLEANER, 23 Dec 80) 36 ~
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Briefs
Cocaine Seizur~ 37
Two Plead Gailty 37
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
EGYPT
Half Million Pound Drug Bust Follows F`i.erce Gun Battle
(AI~-AKHBAR, 16 oct 80) 38
Lab Producing Naxcotics, Adulterating Medication Seized
(Mustafa al-Tarabishi; AI~-AHRAM, 17 Uct 80) 39
2RAN
Brief s -
Opium Arrest
- I?rug Arrest 4i
KUWAIT
Six-Member Hashish Ring Apprehended
(KtJWAIT TIMES, 11 Jan 81) 42
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
. SOUTH AFRICA
Alcoholism May Cost Country R500 Million
(Andrew Walker; THE STAR, 8 Jan 81) 43
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WEST EUROPE _
FEDERAL REPUSLIC OF GERMANY
Increasing Use of Cocaine Reported
(DER SPIEGEL, 22 Dec 80) ....o 44
ITALY -
Seventy Kilos af Morphine Base Seized
- (C~RRIERE DELLA SERA, 14 Dec 80) 46
Briefs
Drug Law Reform 48 -
Heroin Arrest in Genoa 48
SWEDEN
Welfare Minister Soder: Sweden To Urge UN Drug Action
(Sven Thieasen; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 2 Jan 81) 49
Briefs
Narcotics Worth Billion 51
Drug Statistics 51
TURREY
International Heroin Ring Uncovered
~ ~DUNYA, 23 Dec 80) 52
UNITED KINGDOM
Cannabis Smugglers Sentenced to Jail Terms
(Colin Randall; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 17 Jan 81) 54
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AUSTRALIA
PARTY LEADER CALLS FOR COOPERATION IN WAR ON DRUGS
Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 23 Dec 80 p 2
[Text] The leader of Victoria's National Party, Mr Ross-Edwards, has called
for urgent talks between the State and Federal governments to organise a
national attack on the drug problem.
Mr Ross-Edwards said yesterday the Victorian Government had ignored the recom-
mendations of the Williams report on drugs.
- "Immediate steps should be taken to increase the size of the police drug squad
in Victoria so it has adequate manpower to handle this serious problem," he
said.
The Minister for Police, Mr Thompson, sai.d he was confident the proposed
Criminal Intelligence Bureau would be established early next year.
The bureau was the subject of one of the major Williams report recommendations.
He said a two day meeting in Perth during February would discuss the bureau's
terms of reference.
Mr Thompson said major matters for discussion in Perth would include establ~.sh-
menr of intelligence assessment units, uniform lEgislation and treatment and
research centres.
He also promised that the size of the Victorian drug bureau would be increased
next year.
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~ AUSTRALIA
NSW POLICE GIVEN NEW SEARCH POWERS FOR DRUG CASES
Cabi.net Agreement
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 4 Dec 80 p 3
[Article by Catherine Harper]
[Text] NSW police, after pressing through tl~e NSW Royal
Commission into Drug Trafficking, are to be given the power
to search premises without a r~arrant in pursuit of drug
traffickers.
This new power, agreed to by State Cabinet yesterday and due to become effective
early next year, is strongly opposed by the Council for Civil Liberties, which
said such powers would be open to abuse.
Defending the Cabinet decision, the Premier, Mr Wran, said it was more important
to combat drug problems than worry about animosity towards itself on the question.
The Opposition is backing the Government.
The new powers will allow police officers investigating suspected drug traffick-
ing to center premises without a warrant in "~xigent circumsta.nces."
Declaration
Provisions to be written into the Poisons Act are:
Warrantless searches should not be undertaken if it is reasonably practicable to
obtain a warrant before entry;
Police entering premises must suspect, or believe on reasonable ground~, that a
trafficable quantity of illicit drugs is in the building;
Police must also helieve there is a high risk the drugs would be destroyed or
removed before t:~ey could apply for a warrant in the normal way.
After a warrantless search the police of~icer concerned should make a statutory
declaration within 24 hours of:
The reason for not obtaining a warrant;
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- The basis for his or her suspicion or belief that a trafficable quantity of
illicit drug~ were on the premises;
The basia for believing that there was a substantial risk that the drugs would
be destroyed or removed quickly.
W~thin seven days, statutory declarations together with a report by a supeYior
officer of the Police Department should be forwarded to the magist rate who in
normal circumstances would have issued the warrant.
If reyuired by him, the Police Internal Affairs branch would inves tigate and
any necessary disciplinary or other action could follow.
The proposals contain no specific provision for appeal by the citizen, but peo-
ple already have a general right to complain to the Ombudsman about activities
of the police.
To modernise the application procedures for searchwarrants--and to try to avoid
- the need f.ur warrantless searches, permission for search warrants will be obta in-
able by telephone in emergencies.
At present a warrant must be obtained from at least a clerk of pet ty sessions or
a magistrate in person.
The president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Mr Malcolm Ramage, said
the provision would allow for dramatic abuse of police powers because an off i-
cer could later say what he like d to justify what he had done.
How was a magistrate to check the reasons given? There was a danger that poli ce
could raid anyon~ they did not like and give them a hard time, Mr Ramage said.
The Council for Civil Liberties has already received complaints f rom members
of the publi.c that police had smashed thely doors in and entered their houses
without warrants.
� In a case recently reported to the council, police had allegedly broken into
the wrong house after obtaining a warrant but had not seemed conce rned about
their mistake.
"It's too easy to say we need more powers for rhe police. Wh3t we need is a
more effective police force exercising the powers that ex.ist," Mr Ramage said.
Opposition
The council will probably make representations to Mr Wran about the proposed
changes to the Poisons Act.
The legislation will include a provision for courts to be given discretionary
powers to order the forfeiture of vehicles used by drug trafficke rs.
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Whether profits of drug traffickers should be seized is also under considera-
tion.
Legal sources said last night that not all applications for search warrants are
granted.
The Minister for Police, Mr Crabtree, with the backing of the Premier, pressosed
in Cabinet for the introduction of warrantless searches--although he was opp
- by some Cabinet colleagues. -
There are fears in some Government quarters that warrantless searches will be-
come the rule rather than the exception.
Tnere is opposition to the chsnge in some Government circles which believe that
someone removed from the justice system should oversee the police use of these
, extended powers.
Imposition of Restrictions
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 17 Dec 80 p 3
[Article by Catherine HarperJ
[Text) State Cabinet is backing down on the controversial issue of police -
searches without warrant. _
It has decided to rPstrict such searches to a two-year trial and there is specu-
lation in Government circles that they will be dropped altogether next year.
The Government drew strong criticism from the Council for Civil Liberties wl?en
the Premier, Mr Wran, announced two weeks ago that police would be given the
right to search without a warrant in pursuit of drug traffickers.
The council said the powers would be open to wide abuse, although Mr Wran said
it was more important to com~~at drug problems ~han worry about animosity towards
the Government on the question. -
Some lawyers have told members of the Government that they too are opposed.
After Cabinet met yesterday, Mr Wran issued a statement saying it had been
decided to amend the proposed legislation to include a"sunset clause" limit-
ing its operation to two years.
"Cabinet's decision will enable the Government, the Parliament and the public
to fully examine the effect of warrantless searches after they have been in
operation for two years."
It is understood Mr Wran was behind the change to the original decision.
When he announced the changes two weeks ago, he stressed that safeguards would
be provided to protect the public. These mean that:
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Within 24 hours of a warrantless search, the policeman concerned must make a
statutory declaration justifying it.
Searches without warrant should not be made if it is reasonably practicable to
obtain a warrant beforehand.
Police must believe there is a high risk the drugs would be destroyed or removed
before they could apply for a warrant in the normal way.
A vice-president of the Council for Civil Liberties, Miss Carolyn Sympson, said ,
. last night that the Government was also proposing to enable police to obtain
warrants from magistrates by telephone.
The council asked people subjected to warrantless searches or those conducted
on "telephone warrants" to tell the council so it can monitor them.
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AUSTRALIA
NEW LAW FOR WEST AIMED AT BIG DRUG DEALERS
' Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 29 Nov 80 p 29
[Text~ WA's new drug legislation aimed at cracking down on big operators--has
been introduced in the Legislative Assembly.
The Misuse o! DruBB t~came addicfed bnt alsb With~n ?s :~Y~ � t:'~
Bill bringa togetlter all a~~.'and police would have to
asperta oi drug-law en-� promotlon oi crimi~al aa make an application to
forcement-the first time a,iabe~i at salia the District Court for the
~ this tsaa. been don~ in ~ng� thn ~reeb bf evil Rorieitvre o1 the pro-
Atutralla. y~p~, ceeds to the croWn{
Under the leg~1~ tion, "'T6e law no~w proP~d 'The. legislation would
the poliee will be ~iven ta substantially ahned at retain the aystem where
much greater pawer to cTimin~ay and thase Wh� people were assumed to
seize the - P~ oi seek to.�pro!~it lrotri crl- be selling or supplyinB
drug dealinga and they misal act~e8~" ;he ~aid- when they had a� certain
w~ill be able to use imden "It is to be a tough law, quantlt3+ oi drup. In the
cover agents to Iselp Eo deal wltb a ton~h case oi cannabis it~would
catch of2endera proi~2e~"' � be 80 ciRa~~+ 100
The poUce P~r ~ Mr ~11~se~II sai~ tlsst tl~ 8'i'~ ot cannab o! can�
search for dni8s wII1 BiII also co~ed ~ ertal or 20 Bz'sme
also be broadened. Proper pro~ect nabls resin,
" Another change will in� controi of anp ~misw~e oi Mr Hassell said that ttie .
the ~~t.y, ia,~, police perwena. _ ~ n r i s d i c t i o n would
cultivating cs:u~ab~s ' ~ change irom the Sn-
crops oi more than 100 ~ RYI~ ouence in preme Court to the Dis-
~1anta to a fine up ts~ trict Court 1or indlctable
iZV,000 and 10 years~ the Polke get a! 1~eing olter~t~es. " � '
r~ in Puesesafon oi ttie Pt'o- Magistrates. ` would be
~BO~' ~ ~ ` able to deal with ~ome ot
S~R10LJ8 dealinq ia cl~vgs ~ had ~ lesser indiMable o!-
The penatttee for the proved 1~ciequate. . tern~es. Theee wouid be
most serioua oLtencea' The poHce would be e~p- determined bY the qu$n-
vvill remaln at i100,000 powere~ to seize the Pz'o- tlty o~ drngs involved-
and 25 Years' 6aoL , ceeda either under stop~ ~n the caae of cannabis
The Governmrnt w~ and search PZ'ovlsions or 400� clgarettea, 500 gt`ams
proc.~ed with thQ legisla� search warrants. WIthir? oT'mate;~ial or 8='~
tion next year. _ Tl houra ot a eefzure oi re~in
It was tntroduced in they w~ould have to apply I3erQln dealera would Uc
Parliament y~sterday by to a j~tice at the geace dealt yvith only in the
the Miniater for Pallce~ for an order far the con Court
Mr Hassell, eo that ~u~~ oi the
vaould be ample time ior pIt the proceeda were ~n A eerious ~ deAciency 1a
publtc scrutiny. ~ a~~ ~e the Present legislatlor.
had been that there was
He aaid ~ that drugs oi have tb apply to a JP for for trial bY
eddiction had their e1lect azs embargo orr'er oo ae- j~y for the mo~ ~r-
not'''on19 on ttw~e W~ cure the.,pt~s. � ious cannabSs ofiences--
includin8 big� culiivatlon
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AUSTRALIA
COURT UPHOLDS DEPORTATION ORDER ON DRUG DEALER
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 18 Dec 80 p 13
- [Article by Verge Blunden]
[Text] Canberra--The Administrative Appeals Tribuna~ upheld yesterday a depor-
tation order against a man it said was withholding information which could help
solve the murder of Mr ponald MacKay, who disappeared at Griffith in 1977.
The tribunal rejected an application by Saverio Ba rbaro, 32, of Canberra, a
citizen of Italy, for a review of a deportation order made against him in
September, last year.
- The president of the tribunal, Mr Justice Davies, said the deportation order
followed Barbaro's conviction by a jury for possession of Indian hemp for sale.
Barbaro was arrested on March 5, 1977, near a property known as Willra Station,
near Euston, on which a large marihuana crop was under cultivation.
Barbaro had been sentenced to three years' jail to commence on March 6, 1978, _
and was released on parole in September, 1979.
Mr Justice Davies, said he had admitted into evidence the report of the NSW ,
Royal Commission into Drug Trafficking undertaken by Mr Justice Woodward.
He said Mr Justice Woodward, in his report, had named Saverio Barbaro as a -
member of an organisation of persons, of mostly Calabrian descent, who were
engaged in illicit cultivation, trafficking and ma.rketizg of cannabis between
1974 and 1977.
Mr Justice Woodward had found that the organisation was responsible for the
death of Mr ponald Bruce MacKay, a Griffith citizen, who disappeared on
, July 15, 1977.
"His honour (Mr Justice Woodward) investigated Mr Mackay's disappearance and
concluded that he was murdered and that it was most likely he was murdered by
- the organisation because he represented a threat tn its activities," Mr Jus-
tice Davies said.
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He said both Mr Justice Woodw~ard and Mr Justice Williams, who conducted the
Federal Royal Commissi~n of Inquiry into Drugs, reported on the immense diffi- -
culty facing law enforcement authorities in obtaining information to enable
them to act effectively.
"Moreover, it is a continuing af front to the communir.y that the applicant
(Barbaro) has knowledge which he is not prepared to impart," he said.
- That there had been two royal commissions investigating the drug problem indi-
cated the significance of relevant information, he said. _
Mr Justice Davies said Barbaro came to Australia in 1968 and was married with
four young children. It was clear that the family had medical problems and
Barbaro's deportation would be a considerable loss to his family, parents and
rela tives .
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AUSTRALIA
DETECTION DEVICES TO TRAP HEROIN FLIGHTS IN NORTH
Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 12~Dec 80 p 3
[Text] Highly sophisticated detection equipment is to be installed on remote
airstrips in the northern Australia to catch drug runners and smugglers.
Customs conf irmed the plan yesterday but was not prepared to say how much equip-
ment would be used, where it will be installed and when.
But it is likely to be put into effect at the beginning of next year on airstrips
across the top of Australia.
A Customs spokesman in Canberra said that work was being carried out in this
area but that it would not be in the best interesCs of the operation to reveal
details about it.
However, a source in Western Australia said the equipment would be extremely
efficient. It had been styled on technology used for space programs, particu-
_ larly in moon landings.
The equipment will probably be installed about the same time another Nomad
aircraft is put into use by Customs off the north-west coast.
Although the aircraft will provide something of an umbrella for the north
there are so many old airstrips in there that it will still be difficult to
detect unauthorised aircraft coming into Australia.
At the moment a Nomad is based at Darwin. The second one wi11 detect vessels
more than 150km away.
The planned operation comes at a time when suggling [as publishedJ is on the
increase in Western Australia.
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AUSTRALIA
HEROIN SMUG~LERS SAID TO BE PART OF INTERNATIONAL RING
= Sydney Arrests
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 15 Dec 80 p 11
[TextJ Sydney: Four people who allegedly tried to import $1.5 million worth of
- heroin into Australia were part of an international drug ring, the police told
the Central Court on Saturday.
The police said that the four Sydney drug ring operators were uncovered after a
car chase in the western suburbs on Friday night.
Sgt Peter Mason, prosecuting, said that the 1 kg of high-grade heroin was the
biggest seizure of heroin in Australia. [as publishedJ
The court should not grant bail to the four charged because they might be in
danger.
During the arrest a shot had been fired, and a detective was rammed by a car
during the chase.
Sgt Mason said that Florence June Knox (38), of Parramatta, flew into Sydney
from Bangkok ou Friday, with the drug secreted on her body.
Followed
She had been followed from Sydney Airport by members of the police crime intel-
ligence unit.
She had then met Glen Richards (23), carpenter, of Auckland, and Peter Fulcher
(40), labourer of Cronulla, and handed over a package near a hotel.
It was found to contain 79 phials of heroin.
The police had then followed the two men, who were driving a Valiant car, and
tried to stop them.
Richards then allegedly reversed the car into a detective, knocking him several
metres.
A detective smashed a passenger window next to where the police alleged Fulcher
~ was sitting with a brown shopping bag.
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� Later the bag was found to contain two plastic bags ar?d 79 phials of grade
Eour heroin, Sgt Mason said.
Florence Knox was arrested at her home. A third man, Eric Ronald 0'Connor (37)
assistant manager, of Caringbah, was arrested later.
All defendants were charged with conspiring to import heroin into Australia. ~
All except 0'Connor were charged with possession and supply of prohibited _
drugs.
Al1 were remanded in custody to appear in the same court tomorrow.
Bangkok Link
Melbourne THE AGE in English 17 Dec 80 p 15
[Text] Sydney--A 37-year-old man travelled to Bangkok with large amounts of
money to arrange for the importation of heroin to Australia, police told Syd-
ney's central court of petty sessions yesterday.
Police also said they had found 1.5 kilograms of heroin with a street value of
$1 million in a car driven by one of the ma~'s co-defendants. -
Before the court were Peter Fulcher, 40, laborer, Eric Ronald 0'Connor, 37,
assistant manager, Florence June Knox, 38, pensioner, all of Sydney and Glen
Richards, 23, carpenter, of Auckland, New Zealand. -
Mr Fulcher, Mr Richards, Miss Knox and Mr 0'Connor were charg~d with having
conspired with each other to import heroin into Australia. Mr Fulcher and
Mr Richards were f.urther charged with having supplied and possessed heroin,
malicious injury and having assaulted police.
Miss Knox was also charged with having imported and supplied heroin and posses~ _
sion of Indian hemp.
Mr Kevin Waller, SM, refused bail for all four and remanded them in custody to
appear at Central Court next Tuesday. -
Mr Waller told the court that it was becoming r~~torious now in court for people
charged with drug offences to obtain large amounts of money for bail and not to
appear. Because of the seriousness of the charges and the amount of drug in-
volved he would refuse bail.
The prosecutor, Sergeant G. Wells, alleged that Mr 0'Connor had travelled to
Bangkok with large amounts of money to arrange for the importation of heroin
to Australia.
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AUSTRALIA
- PAIR HELD IN NEW ZEALAPdD MAY BELONG TO ADELAIDE RING
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Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 23 Dec 80 p 2
[Article by Peter BlundenJ
[Text) Federal police believe two Australians arrested by New Zealand customs
officials are key members of an elaborate drug smuggling ring based in Adelaide.
A South Australian couple are in Auckland's Mount Eden prison awaiting High
Court trial next month after allegedly being found in possession of hashish
worth $200,000.
The pair--a man, 42, and a woman, 29,--were arrested nearly four week ago but
New Zealand authorities kept the coup secret to enable Australian police to step
up their investigations.
More Arrest~
Detectives estimate the gang has smuggled up to 50kg of top-grade ~ashish with
a street value of more than $1 million during the past eight months.
Eight drug running trips between New Zealand and Australia were allegedly made,
with the hashish primarily distributed in the eastern States of Australia.
It is alleged a number of Adelaide businessmen are implicated in the racket, and
it is anticipated up to 10 more arrests could eventuate.
Detective Senior Sergeant E. Tyrie, of the Australian Federal Police, said in
Adelaide yesterday the drug traffickers bought the hashish in Bombay, India, and
channelled it to Australia via New Zealand.
"They used Auckland as a transit point because passports are not required for
travel between New Zealand and Australia," he said.
"It is much easier to bring it in from New Zealand than from the continent."
The drugs were smuggled into both countries using a"veiy clever ploy.
The gang's operation came to light when Auckland customs men stopped the couple,
acting on information passed on by Australian officers and police.
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The drugs are believed to have been smuggled into New Zealand disguised as
being goods arriving from Australia.
_
Similarly, the drugs were apparently brought into Australia as though they were
routine luggage belonging to local people returning from a New Zealand hollday.
The goods then became subjected to low-priority customs checks, giving them a
better chance of avoiding detection.
- Sergeant Tyrie said federal police had intensified their investigations since
the arrests.
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AUSTRALIA
ZAMPAGL7.ONE, COHORTS GET 25 YEARS FOR HEROIN DEALING
Melbourne THE AGE in English 11 Dec 80 p 3
[Article by Prue Innes]
[TextJ The ringleader of a heroin importation and distribution syndicate was
sentenced yesterday to 25 years' jail--the longest sentence imposed for a drug
offence of this type in Australia. -
Mr Justice Gray sentenced the five members of the synciicate to long jail terms
after a Criminal Court trial lasting nearly two months. All five had pleaded
not guilty.
Antonio Zampaglione, 31, of Hardwicke Court, Frankston, was convicted of one
charge of having conspired to import heroin, and two counts of possession of
heroin.
He was sentenced to 20 years' jail with a non-parole period of 16 years on the
conspiracy charge, and 10 years with a five-year minimum term on each of the
possession charges. With concurrency, the total sentence was fixed at 25 years
with a minimum term of 21 years.
His brother, Salvatore Zampaglione, 2, of McKean Street, Fitzroy, was found
guilty of one charge of having conspired to import herain, and one charge of -
having possessed heroin.
He was sentenced to a total of 20 years' jail with a nonparole period of 16
years.
David Quentin Jewell, 37, of Esdale Street, Nunawading, was convicted of one
charge of conspiracy and one of possession. He received a total sentence of _
15 years' jail, with a nonparole term of 12 years.
Helen Margaret Barnacle, 26, of McGregor Street, Parkdale, was convicted of
one charge of conspiracy and one of possession. She was sentenced to 12 years,
with a nonparole term of eight years.
John Alan Strike, 36, of no fixed address, was convicted of one conspiracy -
charge. He received seven-year jail term with a nonparole period of four
years.
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Passing sentence, Mr Justice Gray said he thought it appropriate to deal with
- the five on the basis that the maximum penalty they could face on the charges
w&s 25 years' jail or a$100,000 fine or both, although it could be argued a -
life sentence could now apply.
He said the jury obviously accepted that the drug rings' import of heroin went
beyond three specific instan~es that had been outlined during the tri%~1. "The
business involved making the necessary arrangements for the import, ;~reparation
for sale and distribution of heroin,"
"The evidence indicates the scale of the business was such that huge profits
must have been made. 'I'he evidence also shows that the condvct of the business
involved the carrying of firearms, and the use of violenca and threats of violeuce
to maintain discipline. In short, the evidence revesls ali the general character-
istics of a large drug dealing operation."
He said that the brothers were the prominent operators of the ring, although
Antonio Zampaglione was older and the dominant figure.
He told Antonio Zampaglione: "The evid~snce indicates you possess a naturally
vicious dispostion which befits the lcader of an undertaking of this sort."
In an unsworn statement from the dock, Helen Barnacle described herself as a
former heroin addict. The court was told that she played an active role in help-
ing the Zampaglione brothers distribute drugs.
Mr Justice Gray said her "story reflects the horrors of the introduction of
heroin in this country."
"You present a tragic example of the effects of drug addiction. But the fact
that you yourself became a heroin addict did not deter you from partipating in
distributing the drug to others."
Earlier in the trial, the Crown prosecutor, Mr E. D. Lloyd, QC, said this was
the first time in Australia that the actual instigators and financiers had been
put on trial.
Mr Lloyd, opening the trial in 15 October, said the operations of the drug
- business in 1978-79 made James Bond pale into insignificance.
Witnesses during the trial included a travel agent who said he feared he would
be murdered if he disclosed that he had arranged tickets to South-East Asia for
Antonio 7.ampaglione, Helen Barnacle and two others.
A drug squad detective said Antonio Zamgaglione offered him a$50,000 bribe if
heroin found in a raid were replaced with milk sugar to defeat charges.
A Penang heroin dealer told of negotiations to buy heroin, involving Antonio
?.ampaglione, Helen Barnacle, Jewell and Strike in 1978.
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AUSTRALIA
TWO HEROIN DEALERS GIVEN 3-YEAR JAIL TERMS
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 26 Nov 80 p 32
- (Text] Two men who received 45 grams of heroin worth $3500
from a friend in the Netherlands and made a profit from its
sale were gaoled for three years with a 14-month minimum
yesterday.
They are Christopher Michael Matthew Brennan (21), telephonist, of Mary Street,
Watermans, and Franco Bonanella (21), design draftsman, of Flinders Strest,
Mr Hawthorn.
Mr Justice Smith said in the Supreme Court that they were both heroin addicts
who originally intended dnly to buy 10 grams of heroin worth $1000 for their
own use.
But they were asked to take more by their supplier, a friend of Brennan.
He sent them 45 ~rams of heroin in five separate letters to a house that they
had rented in a false name in Osborne Park to use as a postal address.
They adulterated the heroin with glucose and sold it in $120 lots.
They made about $2000 profit on the sale. Because of them, a big quantity of
the drug was disseminated.
Fortunately, 10 of these lots had been recovered by the police.
Mr Justice Smith said that the men had shown considerable expertise in packag-
ing the drug and made a handsome profit.
Their offence could not be punished other than by gaol.
But their previous ~ood records and references from prominent ciCizens must
stand them in good stead at present.
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AUSTRALIA
GRIFFITH FARMER GETS 3 YEARS FOR GROWING MARIHUANA
Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 18 Dec 80 p 3
- [TextJ A Griffith farmer Francesco Sergi, was sentenced to three years' ,jail
yesterday by a judge who described him as a major financ ial backer in a mari -
juana growing venture.
Sergi, 45, of Mirrool, near Griffith, had been found guilty by a District Cr imi-
nal Court jury on December 2.
He had been charged with conspiring between early June, 1974, and November 25,
1975, with Leonardo Gambacorta, Guiseppe Agresta, Pasquale Agresta and Luigi
Pocchi and others to sell Indiah hemp.
Judge Godfrey-Smith told Sergi: "Your role was a behind-the-scenes one, out of
the limelight, but you were still standing to make enormous profits quickly."
The judge said he was taking int~ account Sergi's previously unblemished record,
his good record of employment and the fact that there had been a long delay
caused by two earlier trials being aborted.
The judge said that he would have considered sentencing Sergi to five years'
~ail, the sentence imposed on Gambacorta and Guiseppe Agresta, the other
conspirators.
Sergi's trial took seven days.
He was charged after police raided ~ambacorta's farm at Coleambally on
November 10, 1975.
Police gave evidence that they found 12.75 ha of cultivated Indian hemp in vari-
ous stages of maturity.
The Crown alleged that Sergi told police: "I gave him money when he wanted it
and just paid for things he wanted on the farm."
The judge fixed a non-parole period of 13 months.
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
CANNABIS RESIN SMUGGLING--A crane driver smuggled cannabis resin into Australia
in his shoes three times, a Supreme Court judge was told yesterday. Mr Justice
Wallace was told that Allan Tombini (47) formerly of Punchbowl, Sydney, intended
using the $2000 proceeds to help his wife and seven children in Lebanon. Tombini,
who was arrested at Perth Airport on August 15 this year while on the way fror?
Lebanon to work in Darwin, pleaded guilty to three importing and three posses-
sion offences. He admitted importing 282.7 grams of cannabis resin into Australia
on August 15 and possession of a prohibited import on the same day, and the im-
porting and possession of 40 grams of cannabis resin on or about March 18 this
year and June 6 this year while returning to Australia fPe~~hrTHE WESTeAUSTRAL-
Tombini was remanded in custody for sentence. [Text] [
IAN in F.nglish 2 Dec 80 p 39]
PREGNANT TRAFFICKER--A five-month-pregnant woman was alleged yesterday to have
brought more than $400,000 worth of cannabis resin into Australia. She is
Mrs Hesna Chauman, 32, of Watson Road, Padstow. Mrs Chauman who appeared in
St James Court of Petty Sessions was charged under the Customs Act with possess-
ing and importing a quantity of cannabis resin at Sydney on or about December 3.
Mr G. Smyth, SM, allowed Mrs Chauman $40,000 bail with reporting conditions and
adjourned the matter to December 19. Mr David Staehli, for the Commonwealth Crown _
Solicitor, said Mrs Chauman arrived at Sydney Airport on a Qantas flight from
Lebanon with only one large overnight bag. Customs examination of the contents
revealed two plastic containers, Mr Stachli said. Each of them contained about
three kilos of cannabis oil, he said. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
in English 5 Dec 80 p 12]
COAST WATCH CALL--The Federal Government should maintain 24-hour air and sea
surveillance along the Queensland coast, the Premier, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, said
yesterday. He said a constant watch of the state's territorial waters would be
the most effective way to stop illegal fishing, drug running and smuggling.
The Premier spoke at Archerfieldlonrpthe Great BarriereReef.a A1Queensl~andlcom-
equipped for surveillance work a g
pany, Reprographics Pty Ltd, is under contract to the Federal Government to
operate the Australian-built Nomad Seamaster over the coastal waters between
Rockhampton and Torres Strait. The plane, based in Townsville, will start
tomorrow with patrols to cover the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
The company's marrag~director, Mr James 0'Brien, said the plane would take over
from Air Force Orions, which would be free for military work. He said the
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operating costs of the Nomad were one-eighteenth that of an Orion. The Nomad
has radar and detection equipment similar to that of ar. Orion and can do most
of the same work including the detection of illegal fishing boats, smuggling,
drug running, damaged navi~ational aids and water pollution. [Text~[Brisbane
THF CO URIER-MAIL in English S Dec 80 p 17] .
QUEENSLAND DRUG RECORD--Brisbane--Queensland had the best drugfighting unit in
Australia, the Police Minister, Mr Russ Hinze, said yesterday. He was commer~t-
ing on figures which show that Queensland fined three times as many drug of-
fenders last year as NSW or Victoria. Federal police figures show that Queens-
land fined 1748 people for drug-related offences and gaoled a further 112 last
year. In NSW, 551 people were fined and 24 gaoled. In Victoria, 523 were
fined and 38 gaoled. Mr Hinze said: "This shows Queensland is well ahead of
other States in the fight against drug abuse." He said that the fight would be
increased, with two special officers stationed in north Queensland and Queens-
land's decision to join the Australian Bureau of Crime Intelligence. "The
bureau collates and disseminates information on illegal drug-trade activities,"
- Mr Hin ze said. "I am determined to beat Queensland's drug-ring organisers. I
give them clear warnin~ their activities will be squashed." [Text] [Perth
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 8 Dec 80 p 32]
CONFISCATION OF PROFITS--A Labor frontbencher has called on the State Govern-
ment to give courts the power to investigate the bank accounts of drug o�fenders.
The Opposition health spokesman, Mr Roper, said yesterday that the prof its of
drug traffickers should be confiscated. He said that the confiscated money
could be directed into the State's drug rehabilitation programme. "It's ludi-
crous to send someone convicted of a drug offence to jail for five years, when
in many cases offenders leave prison to enjoy the money they have made," he
said. Mr Roper said that although the State Government had lifted fines to
$200,000 for drug trafficking, some pushers made profits far above that amount.
The US Government had decreed that any bank cheques drawn for more than $10,000
must be filed with the central banking agency. This had resulted in the convic-
tion of the leader of a drug ring for tax evasion of more than $17 million. Mr -
Roper said that the Opposition was preparing a private member's bill to give
courts the power to confiscate drug-related profits. Jail by itself is not
enough--a bank robber isn't allowed to keep his money,"so why should a drug
pusher?" he said. The Williams Inquiry into drugs, released this year, also
recommended that power be given to confiscate money proved to be made from
drugs. [Text] [Melbourne THE AGE in English 10 Dec 80 p 3]
- ADDICTION IN WEST--The seriousness of the drug problem in WA can be measured by -
the number of addicts who have been brought to the official attention of the
Public Health Department. The department was notified of 1319 addicts from
- 1975 to mid-November this year. There have been 135 new notifications this
year. The total now on the department's books is 176. A PHD spokesman said
that tieroin was the most common drug of addiction. The figures cover only
those addicts who have sought addictive drugs from legal sources. They do not
include the hundreds of addicts who buy their drugs illegally or who steal them.
[Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 13 Dec 80 p 31]
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BOOBY-TRAPPID FIELD--A man appeared in Brewarrina Court of Petty Sessions yes-
terday follawing the alleged discovery of a marihuana plant ation with a partly !
completed booby trap containing explosives near the entrance. Police told the
court that an electric, time-delay detonator and an instantaneous detonator had
been connected to quarter sticks of gelignite buried near the gate. Before the
courC was Graham Robert Draper, 41, a timber cutter, of Sainsbury Park Station,
60 kilometres west of Brewarrina. He is charged with possessing explosives, ~
cultivating Indian hemp, possessing Indian hemp seeds and stealing detonators.
He was also charged over a.22 calibre rifle which police said they found loaded
and cocked in Draper's car, and a silencer allegedly found in the glove box.
[Text] (Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 18 Dec 80 p 20]
HEMP SMUGGLER--A man held on charges relating to the alleged importation of 10.5
kg of cannabis resin valued at $120,000 was allowed bail yesterday of $40,000
in Central Court. The police prosecutor, Sergeant John Tully, alleged that the
man brought the resin into Australia through Sydney Airport from Beirut. Before
the court was Fawod Eid, 33, of Balderwood Road, Blackett, part-owner of a Camp- .
sie travel agency. H~~ was charged with supplying Indian hemp, possessing a
prohibited import, namely cannabis resin, and possessing Indian hemp. No pleas
were taken. Mr Kevin Waller, SM, allowed Eid conditional bail of $40,000.
(Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 20 Dec 80 p 18]
TOMBINI: 7 YEARS--A drug-smuggler who imported cannabis resin in his shoes
three times was gaoled for seven years yesterday. In the Supreme Court Mr
Justice Wallace set a minimum term of three years before parole for Allan Tom-
bini (47), crane driver, formerly of Punchbowl, Sydney. Tombini was arrested
at Perth Airport on August S while on the way from Lebanon to Darwin. The
judge said that apart from the cannabis in Tombini's shoes, a further 27.7
grams of the drug was hidden in his body. Tombini had said that tie intended
to use the money obtained from importing the drug to bring his wife and seven
children from Lebanon to Australia. It appeared that Tombini was addicted to
the drug. He (the judge) could not understand how Tombini could afford to
visit Lebanon eight times between November 4 last year and August 15 this year.
[Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 23 Dec 80 p 18]
JAIL FOR HEROIN DEALER--A Supreme Court judge said yesterday that he had never
seen as many unsolicited, glowing references for a man convicted of drug
offences. Mr Justice Wallace said that th ey had almost persuaded him to put
Graham Bruce Mitchell (24) on probation. But drug-dealing was such an evil
trade that he considered he had no alternative but to gaol him for four years.
However, because of Mitchell's previous good record and the references, he would _
set a period of eight months before he was eligible for parole. Mitchell, tyre
fitter, of Pearl Parade, Scarborou-gh, had pleaded guilty to selling or supplying
heroin at Scarborough between July 1 and August 8 and possessing heroin at
Karrinyup with intent to sell or supply it. [Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
in English 23 Dec 80 p 18]
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PHARMACISTS' CONCF.RNS--Sydney.--The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has asked news-
papers and other media to stop using drug names and details of drug abuse.
The guild's New South Wales pre s3dent, Mr John Sidgreaves, said studies by the
guild and the NSW Police Department found a link between drug abuse in certain
areas and local media reports which named the drugs. He said robberies of
- pharmacies in some areas had increased after news reports named the areas and
specified the drugs st o len. [Text] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 26 Dec
80 p 3J
PRISONF.RS IN COURT--Two prisoners from L~ong Bay jail appeared in Redfern Court
yesterday on drug charges. Keviii John Gallagher, 27, is charged with dealing -
_ in cocaine, supplying morphine and possessing Indian hemp. Southeil Toufic
Lichaa, 29, is charged with possessing heroin, possessing Indian hemp and as-
saulting prison officer Allan Joseph 0'Connor at Long Bay on Christmas Day.
Both entered Redfern Court of Petty Sessions yesterday afternoon handcuffed and
escorted by nine priso n officer s and police. The clerk of petty session, Mr
_ Dennis Collins, remanded them until today. No pleas were entered. [Text]
j Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ir~ English 30 Dec 80 p 11 j
SIX ON HEROIN CHARGE--Six WA people have been charged with conspiring to import
heroin into Australia . Four of those charged with conspiring will appear in
, co urt this morning. They are: Jennifer Dilkes (25), unemployed, of Malcolm -
Street, West Perth; Sar ah Eve L ewis (22), student, of Victoria Street, South
Perth; David Matthew Utting (22), student of Broome Street, Cottesloe; and
Winton Victor Hall (25) , unemployed, of Malcolm Street, West Perth. Lance
Gregory Hall (25), printer of Victoria Street, South Perth, appeared in the
East Perth Court yesterday on the same conspiring charge. He was remanded till
January 8. A sixth person, Helen Elizabeth Mather (20) , student of Kingsway,
Nedlands, has been rema nded to February 9. All the arrests were made by the
CIB drug squad working on conjunction with the federal police. The CIB alleges
that the six flew in November t o Penang, where they allegedly conspired to
_ smuggle out a quantity of heroin. [Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English
31 Dec 80 p 9]
MARIHUANA GROWING--Th e efforts of government, police and courts have not stopped
people growing marihuana in the Riverina, according to a NSW parliamentarian.
The Member for Murray, Mr Tim F ischer (CP), said it was "a bitter notion" that
nothing seemed to have changed in the four years since the disappearance of
the Griffith anti-drug campaigner, Mr pon MacKay. Mr Fischer was commenting .
on the discovery on Tu e sday of 1,500 marihuana plants on a property near Euston.
The crop was worth an e stimate d$500,000. Mr Fischer said: "Despite rhe best
- efforts of police it seems that people i.nvolved with marihuana in the Riverina
and elsewhere have in no way be en deterred by the courts, the NSW Government or
anyone else. "It is a bitter noti~n and a very sad response to the legacy aris-
ing from the death of Don MacKay to think that four years later nothing appears -
to have really changed Mr Fischer said the Government should press on with
its latest antidrug pr oposals, including the warrantless search provisions which
ha~ drawn public critic ism. A spokesman for the Premier, Mr Wran, said he could
not comment because Mr Wran was away on holidays. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY
MORNING HERALD in Eng 1 ish 2 Jan 81 p 4 j
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TWO HEROIN TRAFFICKERS--'It~o men will appear in tize East Perth Court th' ~ morn-
ing on charges alleging trafficking in heroin. David Johnson tdole (23) , of
- Blencowe Street, Leederville, and Michael James Drew (22), of Harborne Street,
Wembley, were charged by drug-syuad detectives on Saturday. A CIB spokesman
said yesterday that Mole had been charged with selling heroin and with posess-
ing money from the sale of heroin. Drew had been charged with selling heroin
- and with possessing about 30 grams of it with intent to sell or supply it. _
~Text) [Perth THE WEST AUSTRAI,IAN in English 5 Jan 81 p 40]
TWO AMERICANS CHARGED--Ttao American citizens appeared in C',:; Central Court
yesterday on charges of importing heroin said to be worth ..~00,000. The Police
Prosecutor, Sergeant J. Burns, told the court the two had been arrested at
Sydney Airport at 12.30 am yesterday. Before Mr K. Webb, SM, were Daniel Ray
Whalen, 49, of South East Main Street, Portland Oregon, and David Michael
- Ambrose, a cabinetmaker, of no fixed address. During the proceedings Whalen
told the court he wanted to see a doctor. "I am a heroin addict and wo~xld like
to see a doctor if that is possible," he said. After an adjournment to enable
the accused to seek legal aid, a public solicitor for the defendants told the -
court that he had been instructed not to apply for bail in both cases. Mr Webb
adjourned the matter to the St James Court of Petty Sessions on January 12.
[Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 6 Jan 81 p 4J
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INDONESIA
BRIEFS
COURT REDUCES HEROIN CASE SENTENCE--The Jakarta Supreme Court recently had a
hearing appealing the Central Jakarta State Court decision regarding the case
~ involving 1,920 grams of heroin. Last 12 April the Central Jakarta State Court
sentenced Lim Teng Pheow, 46 years old, to life imprisonment. The Central
Jakarta State Court, in considering the sentence, said that Lim Teng Phenw
became the go-between for the purchase and selling of heroin without any
authority. The Public Prosecutor, Judge Anton Suyoto, S.H. (lawyer) after the
original decision, appealed to the Jakarta Supreme Court. As in the case of
the Prosecutor, Lim Tent Pheow from Singapore, 126 Mulberry Avenue, aiso
appealed to a higher court. The factor that reduced the sentence was the eco-
nomic pressure experienced by Mr Ang, alias Serre Siripakorn, the man who had
the heroin. He was earning 300 Singapore dollars per month which was not
_ enough to provide for his wife and 5 children. According to the Appeals Court
the 1,920 grams of heroin which were bought and sold by the accused, had not
been distributed and therefore had not yet harmed the people of the nation.
Based on these considerations, Lim was sentenced to 10 years in prison. [Text]
[Jakarta KOMPAS in Indonesian 25 Nov 80 p 3] 9556
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ARGENTINA
BRIEFS
COCA ARREST--(NA)--Salta--A traffic policeman was about to give a parking ticket
to the driver of a lorry when he decided to take a closer look at the vehicle.
He found it was carrying 80 bales of coca leaves which had been smuggled into
_ the country from Bolivia. [Text] [PY022140 Buenos Aires HERALD in Engiish 1
Feb 81J
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BaxAr~,s
TIGHTER GOVERNMENT ANTI-DRUG MEASURES URGED .
Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 18 Dec 80 p 5
[Article by Etienne Dupuch]
[Text] -
PRIME Miniscer Pindling has ban making a~ Fi~st atep, of coucse, would be to amend the
lot of noise about the dope traffic in the law ao that bu1 could not be graated to a
Bahamas. He has blamed this activity on smugglsr .and that a long a very 1on8
Americans. Now he wants the US to give his pcison sentence would be m~ndatory for a
govemment S25 m7lion to clean up this convicted smuggkr.
murderous tra~c. Acting Magiatrate Janet Bostwick~ a
i say "murderoUS" because I consider a dope couageous woman for whom 1 have a lot of
, peddler faz worse than a mucderor. A murdenr admintion, naady spoke out atrongly against
kills one victim, a dope peddler is engaged in granting bail to dope traffickers. -
destroying the youth of a nation. If 1 had "Granting bu1 is nothing more than a fara,"
control of a country I would make the penalty ~~d, "lt ia a case of `have money, will
, for the dope smuggler so severe that only a fool travel'." Fkr romarka aro:e out of a case in
would take a chana on being caught. which she nfused biil to two Am~ricans chatged
In the xriea of stories on the dope traffic in p~ng 35 bags of matijuana. But she
ehe Bahamas, broadcast on the screea of w~ ov~~ruied in an appeat to a Suprome Court
Miami's Channel Four, one of the speakers j~u~ who granted these men bail in the sum
correcdy aaid that Mr P'indling should clean up of a12,000 each. Bail granted W doP~
his own backyud beforo looking to the US for ~n~gglers, she pointed out, is always paid in
aid. He pointed out that dope was bein8 cash because, when this privilege is extended to
peddled openly on Bay Strat and marijuana, tluse men, no a~e expects them to come back
held by the police as evidena, was being stolen to stand trial. All this mesns is that the traffic
right out of the police compound in lYaaaau. mslces a cantribution to the Batiamas Treasury!
A Channel Four commentator dedared that N(nataaeea (ilce t}uese make you realize," said
forty perant of. the Police Fora was Mrs Batwick~ "that granting bail in the
- corruptible and a crime investi~tor in Florida Bah~mas is hardly more than a farce. It's a ca:e
. also said he believed that this traffic went u far of 'hare ~uwaey, will traveL' L take a very dim
~ as Cabinet level in Nassau. view of the fact that counsel applia fur bail for
How much truth there is in any of these ttu accined, n gr~nted bail, and then does not
accusations is a matter of individual opinion. tuve the courtery to appear in court," she said.
But certainly Mr Pindling's government "71~is practicx by counsel brings proof of
should first take the most elementary stepa disrespect. I will strongly advocate that
nefded to discourage this activity if Bahamian something be dane about it in another forum,"
people and the government of the l1S are she aaid.
expected to believe that Mr P?ndling is sincxre Mrs Bostwidc noted that at the time wtun
in his protestations. the Americans' were arraigned in court, she
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refused bail on the grounds that the cate was
such that the men were likely w abacond if
~ granted bail. "There are few cases, if any, where
- people charged with a large quantity of drugs
are unable to meet the bail, no matter how high
it mi~t be," she said. ~
~ In her view anyane charged with having i
substantial quantity of drugs musi be in the
amuggiing b~inas in a big vr~y. Thia, she felt~
was "tantamount to murde~ u it leads direcdy
" or indirectly to murder:' .
"I feel that the legislators should do
something real and stop tyin8 the hands of the
judiciary. It'a all righi to shout t}ut the
problem is serious and something must be done
when quaaludes az~~ not even listed u dangerom
drug,t and anyone can be granted bail. lt it a
fact that people granted b~il in such
circumstances never retum unlesa thero is a big
technicality in the case where the lawyer can be
sure the climt would win~" she szid.
1 know you have rad ~Il this before in the
news cdumns of The Tribune, but it needs to
_ . be repeated over and rner again until membera
of the government stop talking out of both
sides of their mouths and do something pasitiv~e
to show that they an not a loi of empty
windbags. ' .
Mrs Bostwick found herself handicapped in
h~~ wr~r4 ?~~~t]d like to set her in tM Hc~~se
of Astembly becauae she hu demautrated that
she ia a sincere w~man who is prepared to take
direct action to help clean up our country.
I~ot only an the &nch, but in her capacity ~
at Praident ot' th~e Bar Asvciation ~he finds her
haads tied. 'Ihh Associatiaa is flooded with
complainta about tho queationable behavlour of
some lawyers practicing at the Baham~ Har ind
- the Associatien can do noth(ng about it because
rules gi~m~?g powers w the Associztioa ue lying
wmewhere in the Attomey Genenl's office "
or in some other secti~ of the law deputmaat ~
- waiting to be brought iato effx~ L}ntil this
is done the Bar As:ociatioa is utdeu
organization.
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BERMUDA
AIRPORT II~lPLOYEE ON TRIAL FOR SMUGGLING CANNABIS
Story of Arrest
Hamilton THE ROYAL GAZETTE in English 7 Jan 81 p 3
[Text ] for stealinR the suitcase,"
Airport employee Rudolph ~~d Misa Arfon-Jones.
Bean smuRRled e suitcase of
cannab~s W�rtb ~50~000'�t� "The area wae searched
Bermuda it was a1leRed in and the black suitcaae recov-
Supreme Court yeeterday. ered. It was found to contain
But the druRs Rot no further a 1ar~te amount of plaat ma-
than the Civil Air Termin~l, ten'al. Thie waa later esam-
after a narcotics squad � og'i- ined and found to be can-
oer became euepicious, the nabis, which weiRhed 251ba.
court was told. Ita street value ie about
Bean, of North. Sbore, ~
Devonehire, has pleaded aot .
pNilty to importinR the can- P.c. Simona told the jury
nabis on June 19. He hae that hia euspicione were .
also denied poseeaeion of the aroueed when he apc~tted a
_ druR with intent to supply. trolly facinR the wronR way,
Miae Elizabeth Arfon- in the msntenance area. He
Jones, proeecutinR, aaid watched B~an pick up a baq
Bean wsa employed at the from the trolly, then proceed
Civil Air Terminal as an eir- towards the entrance.
craft serviceman. On tha
ni~ht of the a1leRed ot~'ences "He seemed to atrain un-
Bean wea on duty, ae paseen- der the wei~ht of the baK,"
gers diaembarked from a eeid P.c Simone. "He waa
British Airways tliRht, which mm~inR with the baR. I ran
hed landed from KinRston, after him. I Rot as-~ar as a
Jamaica. swinRinR door and the de-
One of hia duties, the fendant returne~ throuRh
court heard, was to transfer the door. I tried to aet paet
passenQers' baRRaRe from the him and he puehed me
plane to the terminal pick- back�" .
i?P ~a� A atruRRle took piace be-
He was seen to stop with a t~reen the two men, which
cart and take a baR from it. ~d~ the Policeman
He was then seen w take th~a wes joined by Cuetome offi-
black suitcase into a build- ~d ather Policemen.
inR where his own locker
raom was, said M~ise Arfon- A search of the buildinR '
dones. � turned up the suitceae in a
The policeman who ob- etareroom�
eerved Bean as he returned T~ trial, which i~ beinR -
throuQh the door. h~ before the Chief Jua-
"There e scuft]e took place tice, the Hon. James R. Aet-
between the policemaz? and wood, continues today at
the defendant. Help came 9~
and then $ean was anested
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Jury Acquittal
Hamilton THE ROYAL GAZETTE in English 10 Jan 81 p 1
[ Text ] A man who had bean sc- eaid when the oonstable wes
cused of amu~linR cannebin croes-ezamined he wes very
~~b ~p.ppp ~~u~ vaRue about whet he could
wea found aot 1N~tY bY s ncall.
Supreme Court jury Yeeter- "It is quite poesible that
day . P.c. Simons maY~~ have itot
Rudolph Bean. en AirPort the wronit Pe~� seid Mr.
employee, had been chat~ed Keaearam.
with importia~ the druR. aad The evidence aAainet
poseeeein~c it with intent to Bean, said the lawyer, wae
supply. After a aveek-lonR ~ very supe~cial. Bean, he
trial, the ,jury clesred him of went on, claimcd fie had
both char~tee. uiede a stetement after
P.a Jerome Simons had bein~c threete'��d by D�tec'
told the court that he esvv tive Inspector George Ro~e~
Mr. Bean unload a euitcaee hend of the Police Nucotics
from a trolley, whic,k? can- De~ ment. �
tained baRs from an in- W nen ~ ap~8~
comin~{ Jameica fliiiht. The witnesa, the detective denied
court heard that the case havinR apoken with Bean -
waa later found to oontain ZS' and wae accueed of lyinR bY
pounda of cannabis, with a Mr. Kesaaram. ~
atreet value of 350,000. Bean, of North Shore,
But yesterday defence Devonahire, did not ~ive evi-
laaryer Mr. David Kewaram dence in the case. ~
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
TRAFFICKERS, COUNTERFEIT MONEY--La Paz, 3 Feb (AFP)--InCerior Minister Luis Arce
Gomez reported here today that drug traffickers on seeing their possibilities of
action diminished, are distributing counterfeit dollar bills. Arce Gomez did not
re~ect the possibility that interna*_ional extremism, interested in destabilizing
the military government, may be involved in this action. The minister warned that
only banks and currency exchange offices are authorized to exchange dollars for
the people. Therefore, street money changers will be detained. [Text] [PY032119
Paris Ar"P in Spanish 1546 GMT 3 Feb 81]
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COLOMBIA
META ASSEMBLY WANTS TO LEGALIZE MARIHUANA
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spaniah 2 Dec 80 pp 1-A, 8-A
[Article by Arnoldo Falla]
(Text] Villavicencio, 1 Dec--The Departmental Assembly of Meta has asked the
National Congress to legalize marihuana growing as the only way to do away
with the wave of corruption sweeping the country and to channel the sizable
reaulting funds into the various social programa that the government has been
unable to begin due to a lack of money.
The assembly called for the solidarity of its counterparts throughout the
country, asking that they too come out for the legalization of marihuana
growing, to secure a favorable ruling from Congress.
- According to the deputies, marihuana is being grown over an estimated 3,000
hectares on the Eastern Plains, which means an average production of close to -
120,000 arrobas [1 arroba=25 pounds], valued at 1.2 billion pesos.
This money, they explain, has a considerable impact on the department's
economy, which is reflected or starting to be reflected in rising prices for
land, both in the countryside and in urban areas.
The deputies then point out that there are 120 million peso farms in the
plains that are not engaged in any sort of livestock production and that have
been used to "launder the dirty money" from the underground economy.
Marihuana today suffers from the same marketing problems as other items; that
is to say, there is a string of middlemen, just as for any other product.
For example, a marihuana grower sells an arroba for 4,000 pesos, and a
Colombian exporter sells the same amount for 87,500 pesos.
"Gringo" consumers, however, pay 500,000 pesos for an arroba in the United
States.
The deputies signing the proposal also point out that the incame from~the sale
of the marihuana is concentrated, sinc e 81 percent of the profits remain in
the United States while only 19 percent gets back to Colombia.
Of this 19 cents on the dollar return Lo Colombia, 16.5 cents remain in
the hands of the large middlemen; 1.5 cents on the dollar go to the small mid-
dlemen, and 1 cent gets back to the growers. In other words, there is also in-
justice in this illicit business.
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COLOMBIA
COLOMBIAN DIPLOMAT SEIZED WITH COCAINE
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spaniah 6 Dec 80 p 8-B
[Article by Hector Rodriguez V.~
[Text] For the first time in the struggle against drug smuggling in our
country, secret agents seized a shipment of cocaine at Eldorado Airport from
an official of the Colombian Foreign Ministry who was carrying it in a
diplomatic pouch on the way to E1 Salvador.
The accused, Carlos Rodolfo Bolanos Correa, a 30-year old native of Florencia,
Caqueta~and an official in the visa and passport section, was discovered by
Judicial Police agents assigned to the airport and fled.
Although the incident happened several days ago, it was kept completely
confidential by the Colombian authorities.
The official also worked for a time at the Colombian Embassy in E1 Salvador,
where he held a high-level post.
Bolanos Correa aroused the suspicions of agents because of the frequent trips
that he had been making lately to Central American countries, especially E1
Salvador. He carried the drug, some 2,395 grams of cocaine, in false-bottom
valises with Colombian Embassy credentials. '
Bolanos Correa was so shrewd that he even used his diplomatic passport to
exempt himself from the taxes that everyone has to pay when leaving the
country. Bolanos Correa noted that his suitcases had been removed from the
St~M baggage ccmpart~nent and taken to the Judicial Police for inspection and
out of fear of being discovered, he fled. Later, having received clearance
from the Foreign Minietry, the agents opened the suitcases and found the drug
concealed in the bottom.
The authorities pointed out that Colombian diplomats have twice been apprehended
abroad in possession of cocair,e. In La Paz, Bolivia the husband of an embassy
employee was caught as he tried to enter the country with cocaine and was
recently sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prior to that, in New York the
second secretary of the Colombian Consulate was arrested for the same reason
but managed to flee. .
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Separately, a suitcase was confiscated at Eldorado Airport that has been found
abandoned in the international baggage loading area. Inside it were found 10
kilograms of compacted marihuana thgt was aupposed to be aent to the United
States. A Judicial ~olice spokeaman told EL TIEMPO that the drug trafficker
might have repented before boarding the plane. The suitcase bore neither a
name nor an address.
Fifty Kilos More Seized
The Judicial Police at Eldorado Airport reported last night that another suitcase
with 50 kilograma of cocaine had been seized as it was about to be ahipped to
Curacao.
The luggage was in the Avianca atorage area, and ita owner, upon being caught
unawares, fled. Agents have begun an investigation, and the drug trafficker
could be arrested in a matter of hours.
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Carlos Rodolfo Bolanos Correa, fugitive drug trafficker
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COLOMBIA
- F-2 STRIKES MAJOR BLOW AGAINST MORPHINE RING
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spaniah 11 Dec 80 p 28-A
[Text] In one of the most telling blows dealt by Colombian authorities to
drug trafficking gangs, the F-2 of the National Police Staff seized more than
10 kilograms of morphine at a houae in Fontibon. Morphine is perhaps a more
dangerous alkaloid than cocaine and ia widely uaed in both the United States
and Europe.
Five Arrests
Along with the powerful drug, secret agents seized five individuals who were
identified as Jose Enrique Aranguren Urrego, Martiniano Pineros Gutierrez,
Edilberto Gonzalez Espinel, Luis Alberto Maldonado Varela and Alvaro Lara
Rodriguez, who were placed in the custody of a judge for the pertinent inves-
tigations.
The major drug bust took place on Tuesday of this week at No 107-79 on 37-A
Street in the Versalles de Fontibon district, where in addition to the 10.1
kilograms of morphine, agents confiscated a Magnum 357 revolver with 5 bullets
and a 1979 Dodge station wagon with license plate U-15239.
A Million Dollar Business
The five arrested men were caught unawares as they were discussing the sale of
the morphine inside a pharmacy located in the building. The price had been
set at 2 million pesos a kilogram, which is double what is usually charged
for an equal amount of cocaine.
Stolen From a Ship
The successful operation, which was directed by Che head of the Police Staff
F-2, Col Yasin Yanine Diaz, began around a month ago after confidential reports
indicated that the morphine had been stolen from a European flag ship that
stopped in the port of Buenaventura on the way to the United States, where the
morphine was supposed to be marketed, and that it might have been shipped to
Bogota in a bid to market it among the agenta of the international drug
trafficking gangs.
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Once the house where the morphine had been shipped was located, the F-2 pro-
ceeded to raid the building, confiscate the drug and arreat the men involved,
who, as mentioned before, had set the total price of the transaction at some-
what more than 20 million pesos.
A Menace
Morphine is extracted from opium, and its name comes from Morpheus, the Greek
god of sleep. Scientific circles regard the drug as extremely dangerous because
like opium and cocaine, it produces a physical and psychic dependency. A person
can also develop great tolerance to morphine, overdoses of which can cauae
organic dieorders ranging from diminished respiration to death.
According to the presa release that the F-2 issued about the operation, although
little morphine is conaumed in the country, some tablets and small vials with
the alkaloid as the basic ingredient are knownto be distributed clandestinely
in amall amounts, especially among a number of social degenerates who no longer
get satiafaction from marihuana, amphetamines, barbiturates and other harmful
drugs and have turned to morphine because it is new to them, without realizing
the tremendous danger that it represents to their health.
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Alvaro Lara Rodriguez, Luis Alberto Maldonado Varela, Edilberto Gonzalez Espinel,
Martiniano Pineros and Jorge E. Aranguren, arrested with 10 bags of morphine.
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COLOMBIA
BRIEFS
MARIHUANA SEIZED IN SAN PABLO--Santa Irfarta, 6 Dec--The National Police have conf3.s-
- rated 600 bales of pressed marihuana by the spurs of the Sierra Nevada and arrested -
5 individuals who were guarding them. The operation was carried out in the San
Pablo region, in the jurisdiction of Cienaga, and the arrested persons were identi-
fied as Carlos Brito, Wilf rido Machado, Efrain Guerrero, Melquiades Rodriguez and
- Abidaul Hernandez, who were guarding the marihuana, which had been cached at a farm
~ in the region. Also confiscated was a camper with a lice:~se plate P-K 4693. The
600 bales, which are equivalent to 10 tons, have a United States black market value
of $2 million. The marihuana, the arrested men and the Ve~e were taken to Santa
Marta. [Text] [Bogota EL TIII~iPO in Spanish 7 Dec 80 p 13-A] 8743
MARIHUANA, 16 TRAFFICKERS SEIZED--$arranquilla, 1 Dec--Troops from the Cordoba
Battalion seized a shipment of marihuana worth millions of pesos hours before it
was to be taken out of the country and arrested 16 persons at the Bahia Concha tour-
ist beach resort in Magdalena. The shipment consisted of 552 bales of marihuana,
weighing about 22,800 kg and worth 70 million pesos. ~'he arrested individuals are:
Pedro Benitez Pacheco, Ancizar Varon Galvis, Jose Dita Rivero, Victor Rojas Marun,
Juan de Dios Potosi, Alfredo 3errano Vargas, Juan Mario Acosta, Jose Luis Ramirez,
Alvaro Pantoja, Angel Enrique Garay and Gregorio Perdomo Te~ada. [TeXt] [Bogota ,
EL TIEMPO in Spanish 2 Dec 80 p 20-C] 8743
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JAMAICA
EDITORIAL SEES ANOMALIES IN LOCAL, U.S. MARIHUANA LAWS
Kingston THE DAILY GLEANER in English 23 Dec 80 p 8
[Editorial: "The Ganja Problem"]
[Text] A televised interview on CBS "Face the Nation" in the USA on Sunday
November 23, led to a misquotation by the Associated Press of what Mr Seaga
said or marijuana, and this caused some stir in the States. It was good that
Mr Seaga was able to clarify the matter at a press conference in Washington on
December 4. He stressed correctly that mari~uana was illegal in Jamaica and
_ government did not intend to encourage the growing of marijuana. But he faced
up to the fact that ganja or marijuana had literally rescued Jamaica's economy
and that the more desperate the economy became the more people turned to the
growing and the illegal trading of ganja.
- His valid point that without importers in the States there would be no exporters
from Jamaica, and his statement that in the United States some States had liberal-
ised the use of ~anja thus making the U.S, more liberal in its attitude to ganja
than Jamaica, must have brought home to the American public the tendency towards
hypocrisy in which countries like Colombia and Jamaica are criticised because
there is an illegal practice, and yet there is no similar criticism of those in
the USA who are making their fortunes out of the illegal traffic.
But the problem of ganja remains with us. Mr Seaga has said that to him it is
a question of the effect on health, and that studies are inconclusive. But on
the other hand we are glad that he has stated the fact that we are party to
international conventions on narcotics, and we cannot appear to be breaking our
word by seeming to go soft in our attitude to the drug that it undoubtedly is.
It is no answer to say that tobacco or alcohol is harmful, as if the debate r
must be considered on the basis of the least of the evils. The government should
set up a team of scientists and social scientists to make its own study. The
discussions in the Select Committee of Parliament sparked by Dr McNeil's de-
criminalising approach and the legalising approach of Dr Broderick were incon-
clusive. The whole matter must be studied afresh by a team of our own scientists,
~ social scientists and social workers.
In the meantime, the law must remain as it is, and be applied. The former
government's release of some 200 ganja offenders from prison was a blessing -
to the ganja traffic, and appeared to prejudge a report for decriminalising
which never materialised.
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
BRIEFS
COCAINE SEIZURE--Police intercepted a private car on Monday evening, after a chase
through the busy San Juan district, and detained its driver and a 30-year-old
- Colombian, who entered the country illegally, with cocaine worth $lm. on the local
market. Another police party had a succes~ul operation when four men in a car
were stopped at Four Roads, Diego Martin, and searched. [as published] ~o of
the occupants reportedly had guns and ammunition. Consequently, searches through-
out Port-of-Spain and Diego Martin districts yielded a large amount o� mari~uana.
A.32 automatic revolved seized by the Police has since been traced to be one stolen
during a breaking of Automotive Components, Ltd., on 0'Meara Road, Arima, where
$45,000 was also stolen, between April 6 and 8, last year. [Text) [Port-of-
Spain TRINIDAD GUARDIAN in English 7 Jan 81 p 3J
TWO PLEAD GUILTY--A Trinidadian resident in Venezuela for the past 28 years and a
Venezuelan woman pleaded guilty yesterday to being in possession of cocaine,
mari~uana, and ammunition. However, 44-year-old Victor Lord and Carman Pacheco,
48, will return to court this morning f or sentence, `fter they pleaded guiltly
before Senior Magistrate Mrs. Gladys Gafoor, in Port-of-Spain First Court. [as
- published] Th2y were charged with having 500 pounds of marijuana, valued ~500,000;
9,000 cocaine tablets, valued $30,000, possession of a.25 pistol, and 14 rounds of
ammunition on December 20, at St. James. Mr. Roy Holford appeared for Pacheco;
Insp. Frank Phillip for the prosecution. [Text] [Port-of-Spain TRINID,AD GUARDIAPI
in English 8 Jan 81 p 3]
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EGYPT -
HALF MILLION POUND DRUG BUST FOLLOWS FIERCE GUN BATTLE
- Cairo AL-AKHBAR in Arabic 16 Oct 80 p 5
[Article: "Narcotics Worth Half a Million Pounds Seized After Battie with
- Smugglers"]
[Text] The Anti-Narcotics Department seized half a ton of narcotics in the Abu
Sir desert at dawn yesterday after a machine gun battle between policemen and
smugglers. It is estimated that the narcotics are worth about half a millian
p ounds .
Col 'Abd-al-Khaliq al-Tahawi had received information that some Bedouin smugglers -
who used the Abu Sir desert as their hideout had received large shipments of
narcotics. [The information indicated that the smugglers] were about to dump the
narcotics on the market during the holy feast of Bairam.
Maj Gen Sami As'ad and Maj Gen Mamduh Salim drew up a plaii to ambush the smugglers
and seize the narcotics. The execution of the plan was overseen by Col Muhammad
'Abbas, Col Tariq Salim and Col 'Isam al-Tirsawi. At dawn yesterday large groups
of inen from the Anti-Narcotics Administration and from the central security in
the area where the smugglers have their hideout surrounded the area. When the
smugglers became aware that they were surrounded by the police, they began firing
their machine guns on the surrounding forces who returned their fire fiercely.
The smugglers were forced to flee into the desert with their camels.
Lt Col Sayyid Muhammadayn, Maj Muhamm?ad Imam and Maj Samir Badawi were able to
seize one-hal.f ton of hashish and opium whose value is estimated at about half a _
million pounds. These substances are the brands Habib al-Sha'b [the people's
favorite], al-'Ailah al-Malikah [the royal family] and Allah a1='ati [God is the
- donor]. The seized narcotics were taken to a aafe place.
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EGYPT
LAB PRODUCING NARCOTICS, ADULTERATING M~DICATION SEIZED
C airo AL-AHRAM in Arabic il Oct 80 p 8
[Article by Mustafa al-Tarabishi: "I.ab Producing Makston Fort Drug and Adulterated
Medication Seized; Lab Managed by Medical Instruments Salesman and Male Nurse"]
[Text] The North Cairo investigative police has arrested a medical instruments
salesman and a male nurse in a physician's office for producing the liquid narco-
tic makston fort which drug addicts usually take by injection. The lab has been
s eized along with large quantities of empty bottles and vials and medication labels
that were set for adulteration and distribution. Other quantities of narcotics
that the medical instruments salesman produces in his lab were also seized.
The increase in drug addicts' use of makston fort [amphetamine substances] has
recently been a growing phenomenon, especially after some workers in the medical.
field succeeded in producing this narcotic. Maj Gen Salah Amin, director of
security ordered Brig Gen 'Abbas al-`Asi, director of investigations and Col
'Abd-al-Hadi Mukhaymar, chief of investigations to investigate those people so as
to curb the proliferation of these destructive substances. In the course of some
of the campaigns carried out by Col Fadi al-Habashi, investigative inspector ~n
North Cairo, some information was collected about a male nurse employed in a
physician's office in Rawd al-Faraj. That male nurse distributed the substance,
makston fort, [to individuals] who have hideaways, such as physicians' offices,
where the substance can be administered to drug addicts. He also sold the sub-
stance in the office of the physician who employed him, without the physician's
knowledge. Inquiries carried out by Lt Col Shafiq Fahim and Maj Muhammad Hazim
indicated that the name of the male nurse was Muhammad Ahmad Hasan, that he was
46 years old; that his clients entered the physician's office after paying the
physician's fee; and that the sale of the substance took place while they were in
the physician's office.
The public defender Samir Sulayman gave the narcotics prosecution [authorities]
permission to search the male nurse. A large plastic container containing 5,000
cubic centimeters of the substance ready for sale was found in his possession,
and the male nurse was arrested. When he was asked about the source of the sub-
stance, he confessed that he had obtained the substance from a 5R-year old medical
instruments salesman whose name is Jaballah Butrus Hanna and who resides in al- _
Sahil where he produces this substance and then delivers it to him to be sold.
The male nurse said that he had made that man's acquaintance when the salesman
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used to come to the physician's office for therapy. He was able to come to an
agreement with the salesman to work as his distributor for money.
M~j Nazir Samir 'Abd-al-Latif and First Lt Hisham Mahmud led a surprise attack _
[on the lab]. It led to the capture of the lab owner in his home which consists
of three floors which he and his family occupy. It turned out that he was using
a room at the top of the house as a lab where he produced the substance, makstron
fort, and the adulterated medication. Large quantities of local and imported
medication, some devices and large quantities of empty bottles and vials were
found in the lab. These had been prepared for the adulterated medication. The
labels that were to be placed on these bottles were also found. Large quantities
of morphine and codine vials; plastic containers containing a mixture of heroin,
codine and morphine; medicines from abroad; a large number of (alphacamphine)
vials, not to mention large numbers of makston fort tablets were also found.
The suspect was questioned by Col 'Abd-al-Hadi Mukhaymar. He declared that he had
come to Cairo 35 years ago, that he had worked as a construction worker and that
he had then joined the chamber of commerce as a clerk in the medical instruments
division. It was then that he began his activities to market some instruments
and devices such as scalpels and gloves. Eventually, he opened a store for the
sale of inedical instruments. He declared that he had purchased all these drugs _
from workers who got them from the pharmacies.
The suspects were arraigned by 'Adil Rashdan, narcotics prosecuting attorney.
He ordered that they be held in custody and that a committee be appointed to
examine the seized substances.
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IRAN
BRIEFS
OPIUM ARREST--According to the central news bureau, the gendarmerie regiment of
- 'Abbasi, in Bandar 'Abbas, announced that a truck driver named (Hamidollal 'Ali '
Bakhshi) concealed 666 kg of opium inside thP roof of the driver's cabin of his
truck. The opium was seized and the driver was arrested together with a passenger
named (Gholam Gudarzi). They were handed over to responsible authorities. [Text]
[LD270412 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 1630 GMT 25 Jan 81 LD]
DRUG ARREST--According to our correspondent, the Revolution Guard~ of B3.r~and -
stationed in (Zirkuh-e Qayenat) have seized 110 kg of opium from (Latif) son of
Abdolrahman, and Anvar, son of Heydar, both Afghan nationals. They also seized
a[figure indistinct] of opium from ('Ali Geda-Safari), and 500 grams of heroin -
and some cash and gold coins from another person named (Hasan Baqi), during the.
past 2 days. These persons were taken to prison; their cases are being reviewed
at Birjand Islamic Revolution Court. [Text] [LD270412 Tehran Domestic Service in
Persian 1630 GMT 26 Jan 81 LD]
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KUWAIT
SIX-MF~iBER HASHISH RING APPREHENDED
Kuwait KUWAIT TIMES in English 11 Jan 80 p 2
(Text] The CID yesterday nabbed a gang of six drug peddlars who represented dif-
ferent nationalities, four Egyptians including a woman, a Syrian and a Kuwaiti, _
also a woman. [as publishedJ
The Anti-narcotic Department official in the guise of customers struck a deal
~aith the first suspect Samir for the purchase of hashish worth KD 550. Later they
called on him at his house, which was subjected to a thorough search with positive
results. -
Samir told the police that he obtained the contraband fram the second suspect,
whose house when searched yielded two pieces of the drug.
The second suspect, who had sold some drugs worth KD 250 to a third member of the
gang, Ahmed led on the police to the latter. Palice seized three big slabs and
f ive smaller ones from his house at Rumathiya.
It was the second suspect again, who aided the police in catching hold of the
fourth of the gang, Abdul Ghani, who had brought the stuff from him for KD 200.
The f ifth, a Kuwaiti woman named Njaat, was linked up to the case at this juncture:
she had bought the drug f or KD 300.
She had carelessly left a piece of the stuff on the table at her house in the
Baghdad Street. She said she had sold some of her purchase to an Egyptian woman
called Fatama for KD 150.
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- SOUTfi AFRICA
ALCOHOLISM MAY COST COUNTRY R500 MILLION
Johannesburg THE STAR in English 8 Jan 81 p 2
[Article by Andrew Walker]
ers wlll meet sooa to ~?oit ~tica imm Ameriaa aur
[ Text A?coholica ' c o u 1 d cosi �Ut "lifestyle" education veYs. akoholism in indus-
~ South Atrica more than p~0~~~ Workers couid result
R500-millioa t h i s year ~0~' ~u b� ~Q~~ ~ ia a 1 o s s oi o v e r
- through damage to equip- �duptia� auihorlaa u RS00-million this yeu. .
ment, losa of Productioa be~ s neeetsiqr tor ths Wfricb. a7s ~Iri Lea
youth oi tods7. . Wilcoch. 3aoca's iadus-
time and poQr pork ~a7 "'Tt~e~e liave beea at~ 'trial and eduoatlotul coa~
~ ~perts oe alcohol abuse. tempts at sneh eduatio~. atkaat. emphssi~et t~h e
A Johaaaeaburg ba8- but the o~er~ll 4uality peed for preventtve edu-
master is Worried about a n d d e p t b ot r u c h qtlon tl~roug~out t h e
- tbe drinking oi hia stan- achemb h a s beea f ~ r couatr~ and aot adY in
dard 5a; the couatry is trom aatlsfactory," NY's Dr achooLt
uld tu have np to 900 000 5 de lUraada. heid of &t! wl~il~ t6sre it a
peopie qho an rtther de- Sanc~'~ cllntc~l wtvdcs~ ia jrave need fa educatioa
' pendeM oer alcobol or Johanneabur~. a~otit the ~~cs of alca
who are movin8 ~s "We bave a ~ituztion hol iEuse, facilitlea for
that stata - aad alcohol where teachers ind princi� ~tin,~ . alcoholia a r e
ia a factor in ;f0 pee~cent pals an becoming more ~o~ '
of Soutb ~frica's fatal i~e o{ aicobol problems At tbs Sanaa dinic 's~
road eccidents. a a d a r e nqursting Pritchard Sttee~ Johan-
But the fi~ht atainst preventive eduation in ~~u~ ~ m~7' ~8 ~
alcohoi abu~ b beiaQ the school~ " � peoDl~ are on ffie ~oors
st~epped ap. Chiid~ren, said Dr de ~s Patlmt+ st any one
The lSininer of Health~ Miranda, ~vere DeeominS
Dr liunnik. hu aaaouo- . more and more exPo~ ~'ortunatelt. about 90
ced ~ new aaeauk on to alcohot and Were waa ~ D e r c e n t of a11 thoee
:bnee and tbe South Afri- "viril and argetrt ~eed" '~oOlced" on akohol caa
can National Council on ior preventive educatlon. be treated as outp~tients.
Alcoholism md Drug De- It was hoWever aot pos- But even oatpatient fao-
pendence beUeves such afble to say ~vhether sico- ilities are ~tralned and
stepe are. not on2~ aver� h o 1 i s m w a s on t h e Sanca haa srirted sa in-
- due but vitsl� inrrease in SA ts no si:r� ~t~strial sCheme ~vhicfi~ it
Couneil repreieatatives, veys has been carried out. is hoped, ~vill help desl ~
medical o!licera tnd teach- But workin~ irom statia- rvitb the pcqbkm.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
INCREASING USE OF COCAINE REPORTED
Hamburg DER SPIEGEL in German 22 Dec 80 pp 77-80
[Article entitled: "Snorters and Sniffers"]
- (ExcerptsJ The wave of cocaine~which has been documented for years in
the United States is spilling over to Western Europe: the new import
center is Baden-Wuerttemberg.
According to the diagnosis of Stuttgart Chief Detective Superintendent Klaus
Mellenthin, director of the narcotics division in the Land Criminal Police Office
(LKA): "We have now gone beyond the initial test phase; the drug problem is richer
by a new evil, the cocaine wave is coming."
If the development from the United States is fully emulated, "and there is scarcely
any reason to believe it will not be" (Mellenthin), then an age group which thus far
has largely resisted "will be overrun:" victims and offenders belong mainly "to the
successful and sated midlife-crisis class, to so-called society."
And even though it has long since been a party custom in the United States to put
out little gold dishes with cocain~ for self-service, every now and again the
criminal police in the FRG also seizes tiny silver or gold spoons, even small vials
with dispenser tops, and onyx-covered boxes filled with the dangerous powder instead
of pills.
At the beginning of December, right after the dealers had unpacked, 16 film people--
- directors and producers of the younger German scene--were suspected of being buyers
or users in a cocaine raid in Munich. Director Klaus Lemke ("Negresco") was tempo-
rarily taken into custody; the drinkers in a Schwabing artists' bar remained in
custody.
Five years ago only 800 grams of cocaine were seized in the FRG, in 1980 it was more
than 21 kilos--of course, by weight alone still not parallel to the heroin boon (in
1979 more than 200 kilos), but for the narcotics searchers a"disastrous repeat:"
heroin, too, had infiltrated "inconspicuously," all of 500 grams having been seized
in 1969.
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"In the case of heroin the situation was taken too lightly and kept quiet for too
long," says Mellenthin; "as far as cocaine is concerned we must speak clearly right
from the start." Of course, that will not be so easy and convincingly possible as
with heroin because "whatever sails under chic colors" (Mellenthin), as "happy dust,"
"champagne drug" or "Charly," has much more attraction than deterrent effect and for
the present has the apparent advantage of leaving behind no physical traces.
The hunt for dealers and users of cocaine is in full swing in Baden-Wuerttemberg,
because the "white stuff" is infiltrating via southwest Germany more and more often
and in ever greater quantities--in 1980 there were 30 successful hauls, mainly on
Lake Constance and in the Baden area.
~ The most important finding in this connection: when the man with the coke comes, he
is almost always an Italian. Probably not only because the mafia in the United States
is also active in the cocaine business, but rather because the American market
recently has been served in a roundabout way via Western Europe.
U.S. checks of incoming flights from South A~nerica, mainly from coca growing countries
like Colombia, Peru or Bolivia, are so strict that narcotics transporters prefer to
land in Miami ar New York coming from European airports, even as charter tourists.
According to the findings of the narcotics and customs searchers, "there is more and
more branching out in the process, with the cocaine fliers quickly making little
side deals in Europe. Amsterdam and Milan serve as cocaine centers, and in return
Frankfurt has taken over the "leadership role" for heroin from Amsterdam.
In particular the three-nation corner near Loerrach, Basel and Muehlhausen, and the
eastern tongue of Lake Constance near Lindau, Bregenz and St. Gallen, according to a
statement by Stuttgart LKA President Kuno Bux, are still "a great white spot on the ~
map of the struggle against narcotics;" several airports, heavy commuter, tourist
and excursion traffic with mostly just routine checks, international expressways and
_ autobahns foster cocaine traffic.
Because of the growing demand in the FRG and the increased acquisition costs cocaine
is now sold at higher prices than heroin: 1 gram, good for a dozen snorts, costs
between DM 200 and 500, and well-to-do prospects jump at this opportunity.
In Stuttgart, for example, a wealthy architect from the Ludwigsburg district was
taken into custody just as he was passing cocaine samples in the Old City. Under
the architect's waterbed addresses of coke customers were then found. Mellenthin
def ines the new "user stratum" in this way: "Upstairs, at the parents' party, coke
is used, and downstairs in the basement the young p eaple smoke hash."
Police and drug consultants, doctors and teachers now intend to pay far greater
attention than previously to coke consumption, espec ially since, as the National
Association for Addicts of the Evengelical Church laments, "the gray field of users
is incomparably larger, they remain unknown for a longer period of time." -
LKA expert Mellenthin is of the opinion that the police must embark on "new routes"
in order to close in on the "group of cocaine offenders:" For the most part the snorter
in high society today still escapes police investiga tion, the sniffer on the streets
is easier to f ind."
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ITALY
SEVENTY KILOS OF MORPHINE BASE SEIZED
Milan CORRIERE DELLA SERA in Italian 14 Dec 80 p 14
[Article: "Tracking Down the Castle Alchemists, Police Uncover 70 Kilos of Drugs
Worth 80 Billion Lire"J
[Text] The mafia and "brains" of Italy's new underworld are transforming this coun-
try into the world's biggest clearing house for heroin. This fact was demonstrated
when an unprecedented quantity of narcotics was seized--70 kilos of morphine base,
worth not less than 80 billion lire at the going retail rate--over the past several
weeks by the Customs Service, working in close collaboration with nuclei of the
militia in Trieste and Bologna, the narcotics division of police headquarters in
Milan, and Trieste's Criminalpol branch. In the investigatioa, now under way= they
are also cooperating with DEA, the American service which has been warring on the
drug phenomenon all over the world for years. It is not improbable that magistrate
Dr Dell'Osso, coordinator of the enquiry, will announce the seizure of other hard
drugs in huge quantities and the arrest of persons hitherto thought to be above all
suspicion. .
The 70 kilos of pure morphine were discovered when the police followed up clues
that led to the laboratories of death, shut down last June, located in the castle
at Cereseto, near Alessandria, and at 14 Via Cardinal MQZZOfanti in Milan. On the
conviction that the supply channels of the drug were id~entical for the organization -
headed by Giancarlo Trombin, proprietor of the castle in Piedmont, and for other
traffickers throughout the national territory, treasury agents and the police were
able to trace the stages by which the morphone base, cultivated in Turkey, is im-
ported into Italy.
Alerted by antidrug services beyond our borders, the investigators verified a warn-
ing that the drug was being shipped hidden in the tires of tourist buses.
Toward the end of last November, the investigators concentrated their search on _
Roccamurata, near Parma. After they had scoured the area for some 12 hours, the
pilot of a revenue department helicopter radioed word that he had spotted two big
wheels lying in the bed of the Taro River. Despite the swift current and the icy
water, Marshal Fulco, of Trieste's "Yellow Flames" [customs officers] unit, pulled
one of them ashore. While he was being treated for severe chill., his aides, iri the -
presence of Dr Portaccio, of Milan's flying squad, cut open the tire and the air -
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chamber. In this unique cache, they found about 20 plastic sacks bound in tin straps
and containing some 40 kilos of raw morphine, the drug which is refined into 90-
percent pure heroin.
Searching the river bed farther upstream, thay discovered another tire packed with
30 kilos of morphine. As explained by Dr Dell'Osso, deputy attorney of the repub-
lic, this clamorous find--although for the time being it is not possible to ascer-
tain whether ~r not it was the property of Giancarlo Trombin--has been associated
with the investigation that followed the raids on the deadly laboratories in
Cereseto and the Via Cardinal Mezzofanti. `
Recounting the results of the operation, Dr Dell'Osso has once again appealed for
a specialized Italian nucleus, on the order of similar units functioning in America
and Germany, to step up the crusade against drugs. "The numerous deaths on the
roads," he saiZ'., "should persuade us that we must not and cannot lose any more time.
By comparison with last year, the percentage of young people killed by overdoses has
doubled. In our efforts to eliminate this phenomenon, I urge that we profit by the
experience gained in another [criminal] sector and mete out less harsh penalties to
those addicts who agree to collaborate with the courts of justice."
COPYRIGHT: 1980 Editoriale del "Corriere de11a Sera" s.a.s.
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ITALY
BRIEFS
DRUG LAW REFORM--Rome--Yesterday the PLI introduced a new narcotics bill to the
_ Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The liberals aim to modify the present drug
law, primarily to fix the maximum daily dose of narcotics a user may take without
incurring penal sanctions; to stiffen the penalties for those persons who produce
and peddle such substances; to include heroin in the off icial pharmacopoeia; and
to establish health centers which would diagnose the extent of each addict's
dependence on drugs and administer them to him. The liberals' proposal, signed by
the deputies Altissimo and Zanone, proposes that those persons who buy and keep not
more than four individual daily doses would not be subject to punishment. On the
other hand, those who sell heroin or other particularly toxic drugs should be
punished more severely [than they are now under the present law). In treating
_ addicts, the bill provides for controlled dosages of heroin, to be given them in
_ centers especially set up for that purpose. The quantity of heroin and the
regular intervals at which they are to be administered would be determined accord-
ing to the mental and physical condition of each patient, and the centers would
keep all such data on file. [Text] [Milan CORRIERE DELLA SERA in Italian
13 Dec 80 p 11] 9653
HEROIN ARREST IN GENOA--Genoa--The police at the port of Genoa dealt a heavy blow
against the drug traffic when they seized 3 kilos of heroin base (value: over 4
billion lire when cut and sold at retail) aboard a Mercedes with a West German
licanse. The car was traveling on a ship inbound from the Syrian port of Latakia.
A young Turk, who turned up to claim the vehicle, was arrested. Although it is
widely believed that the port of Genoa is one of the nerve centers of Italy's mas-
sive drug trade, in the past 12 years the authorities have sequestered only so-
called soft drugs, particularly hashish, although at times in large quantities.
Such was also the recent haul of narcotics arriving from Cyprus, but on this occa-
sion the police were on the right track. A signal was relayed to them at the
moment the Mercedes was loaded aboard the "Anglia Express," of the Adriatica Line,
therefore the police agents were awaiting the vessel when it made its first stop
in Italy at Leghorn. Here the automobile, shipped as merchandise, was identified
and kept under strict watch. Unloaded at Genoa, it was perquisitioned and par-
tially dismantled, revealing the drugs hidden under the back seat and behind the
upholstery of the two sidea. Whpn the car was put back in its original condition,
the police had only to wait for the owner to appear and claim it. Yesterday, as
Suleiman Yalinis, 27, Turkish citizen, was about to step into the car, he was
arrested. [Text] [Milan CORRIERE DELLA SERA in Italian 21 Dec 80 p 13] 9653
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SWEDEN
WELFtLRE MINISTER SODER: SWEDEN TO URGE UN DRUG ACTION
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 2 Jan 81 p 7
[Article by Sven Thiessen]
[TextJ The Swedish Government is planning action in the UN to increase inter-
national cooperation in the struggle against narcotics, Karin Soder, the minister
of welfare, told the Press Wire Service (S~) in an interview. -
- She will visit the UN headquarters in New Yor'�: to convey to them Sw~den's concern
over a growing wave of narcotics.
- "We are greatly concerned that the opium harvest in the Far East has been quite
good--there is talk that it is four times larger in 1980 than ever before. As a
result we can expect an increased flood of narcotics to Europe," Mrs Soder says.
"The supply of narcotics is also increasing as a result of the troubled situation
in the Near East which has lead to a reduction in the control of cultivation, for
example, in Lebanon. We have also received alarming reports from Latin American _
_ countries, where more cocaine is being produced for sale in other parts of the
world.
"This requires, therefore, greater international cooperation in order to cope with
the problem. I think also that the UI1 must become involved in the narcotic ques-
tion more than formerly."
In cooperation with the UN, Sweden has provided funds for alternative cultivation,
so the farmers in Southeast Asia who grow opium can start with other crops.
"We are among the largest contributors to alternative cultivation, but we must get
other nations to go along with us," Mrs Soder maintains. These projects have -
shown themselves up to now to be successful and hence should be expanded.
Wants to Forbid Cultivation
::-aeden also desires increased international cooperation in the legal field in regard
to the legalization of narcotics. Sweden would prefer to see the cultivation of
all narcotics prohibited but the S~edes recognize that this is a long-term objec-
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"In those areas where new crops have been introduced, work in regard to irriga`.'_n,
health, the education matters has been undertaken," Mrs Soder says. The wb~.;.e
standard of the village's population has in this tnanner been raised. People are
helped and at thP same time the spreading of narcotics is hindered.
Despite increased efforts in recent years, narcotics remains a very big problem
in Sweden. Recent information indicates that the use of hashish or cannabis is
increasing.
~ A Dangerous Culture
"We cannot tolerate narcotics in any fox~n except for medical use," Mrs Soder main-
[ains. "I say this because there are forces in Sweden and above all abroad who
want to legalize certain kinds of narcotics, for example, cannabis. Ti~ase are
ideas against which we must defend ourselves with all aur strength.
"An increase in smoking cannabis occured in Sweden at the end of the sixties and
in the beginning of the seventies, which later went down. There have been signs
for a few years of an increase in the use of cannabis or hashish. Here, there is
a significant connection between some music and certain films which glorify
~ hashish ~moking, for example, 'Hair.' T'his is deignous and dangerous.
"Recently there have been cases of hashish being given free to school children in
the upper grades. In this way the children would be induced into becoming custo-
mers .
"Some people are spreading the idea that hashish smoking is harmless. All research,
not least in the United States, indicates that that is wrong. Hashish remains in
the b ody longer, for example, than alcohol. Someone who smokes hashish does not
himself notice ch anges, but hashish slowly results in incurab le damage and hence
is just as demoralizing as other narcotics."
Smoking A Start
" "Do you believe that it is possible to create a Sweden free of narcotics?"
"That must be the goal, even if it seems far away. I think that with a united
effort we can reduce usage to a minimum.
"The fact that fewer people are smoking is a positive contribution to the fight
against narcotics. The person who does not start to smoke tobacco very~~likely
does not start to smoke hashish. If we can reduce the consumption of alcohol
by young people, we can also reduce the use of narcotics."
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SWEDEN
BRIEFS
NARCOTICS WORTH BILLION--Stockholm--During 1980 narcotics worth 1 bil.lion kr were
sold. More than 11 tons of hashish and marijuana was the tiotal consumption of
Swedish hashish smokers in 1980. This is the figure the police get after calculat-
ing that 5-10 percent of all the narcotics brought into and sold in Sweden in a
year is confiscated. This means that the police and customs people together con-
fiscated about 800 kilograms cannabis last year. In the same manner, the confis-
cation of 2.7 kilogram heroin in that year indicates a sale of about 40 kilograms
on the street in 1980. According to the same calculation, the consumption of am-
phetamines and fenmetralin by Swedish addicts was just over 350 kilograms last
year. Together with smaller quantities of opium, LSD and cocaine, narcotics sold
in Sweden in 1980 have a value of about 1 billion kr. Although th e quantity of
confiscated narcotics seems quite small, the incidents of confi~cation were double
those in 1979 according to the narcotics division of the natior~~1 p~lice Torvald
Nilsson says in an interview with Press Wire Service, Inc (Sw). [Text] ;Stockholm
SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 31 Dec 80 p lJ 6893
DRUG STATISTICS--Stockholm, Jan. 1(AP) Marijuana smokers in Sweden consumed
eleven tons of the drug in 1980, according to figures released by the police
Wednesday. Including some 400 kilograms of heroin, opium, LSD and other drugs
the street value of all narcotics consumed in Sweden this year amounted to one
billion kronor (228 million U. S. dollars). Police statistics also show that an
estimated 5 to 10 percent of all narcotic drugs smuggled into Sweden each year is
confiscated. [Text] [Taipei CHINA POST in English 2 Jan 81 p 3]
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TURKEY
INTERNATIONAL HEROIN RI:1G UNCOVERED
Istanbul DiT~TYA in Turkish 23 Dec 80 pp 1, 5
[Text~ As a consequence of operations conducted in Van, Diyarbakir, Lice,
Gaziantep and Kilis by teams from the Central Narcotics Division of the Direc-
torate of Public Security and from the Narcotics Section of the Adana police, a
"heroin network" has been uncovered.
It has been determined that the network which has been sending heroin to Europe
via Cyprus [see map below], with the collaboration of an Armenian organization, .
is under the leadership of Iskender Aga, son-in-law of Cihangir Aga, otherwise
- known as "Celali," headman of the "Dolkhan tribe," as well as the chairman of
the Gaziantep sports club, Halil Avar, and uustafa Bayram.
ALAI~ NYA
Heroin from Iran was , ~Ae,NSa
being smuggled from
our southeastern prov- ~
inces such as Diyarbakir ~
and Gaziantep to Cyprus ;~(a '
iSPANYA ~ i AL~A / i~
and irom there to ~ ~
various European a� ~ TURKIVE
~ ANI T4N
counGries . ~ e~' K ~DASI
, ' , Aoo h
~g~ cini -
� : r .
Key:
(a) Spain (d) Italy (g) Ku~adasi
(b) France (e) Greece (h) Rhodes
(c) Germany (f) Crete (i) Turkey
Halil Avar Flees
- Among the network's leadership, Iskendar Aga was arrested in Baskale and Mustafa
Bayram in Diyarbakir, however it has been learned that Halil Avar was able to
_ escape.
Halil Avar was arrested in Istanbul in 1974 in connection with the seizure of _
600 kilograms of hashish, however he succeeded in placing the guilt upon another
man and avoided conviction.
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Police have ascertained that Iskender Ertus Aga served the network by obtain-
ing the narcotics from Iran.
The duties of Halil Avar and Mustafa Bayram within the network were to trans-
port the goods to foreign countries.
Authorities stated that members of the network, who had been placed under sur-
veillance, were arrested in Adana with 5 kilograms 550 grams of heroin. It was
further stated that additional elements of the network will be brought to light
as a result of documents seized in the course of the operations and that the
evidence obtained to date will be further developed.
Police Officer Who Collected Heroin Money
Certain documents obtained from Mustafa Bayram shed light on a hitherto unre-
solved incident. A police officer, Mehmet Bayram, who had been arrested a short
while earlier on a robbery charge, was found not to have been engaged in a
robbery but to have been forcibly taking a$3-million payment for heroin owed
- to his older brother, Mustafa Bayram, but not paid.
Names of network members arrested as a consequence of the operations carried
out are as follows: Ali Riza Eyisan (brother of heroin manufacturer Dede
Ibrahim), Dogan Eyisan, Ismail Dogan, Huseyin Dogan, Kemal Kapli, Sabah Kurto- _
glu (previously convicted narcotics smuggler Suphi Bakirkol, who had his name
officially changed to Sabah Kurtoglu), Haci Mahir Gundogo (stated to have been
known for years, and to be the owner of a large store in Kilis selling smuggled
goods, but to have successfully avoided arrest until now). Mehmet Zait Taruk,
Celal Taruk, Iskender Ertus, Mustafa Bayram, Fettah Halitoglu, Idris Akkoyun,
Mahmut Akkoyun.
Network members Halil Avar and Mehmet Akdemir are still at large, but efforts
are continuing to track them down and arreat them.
9353
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UNITED KINGDOM
CANNA.BIS SMUGGLERS SENTENCED TO JAIL TERMS
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 17 Jan 81 p 3
[Article by Colin RandallJ
[Text]
PL~N to smuggle Also jailed for their part in
the con~piracy were: Hc~tPHneti�
C a n n a b i s ~~'orth go(.~.~ho. ,i8, commercial artist
~ �JJO,000 into Britain in a of ~talaQa, four ~~cars; :~~av
_ y~acht from ~Iorocco, �~as Bo~rorr. ;~3, boatbuilder, oF Gol-
" watched from the word borne Road. Ladbroke Gr~~e,
go " by Customs men, a three years; a0d RAY~tOND HC~t-
court heard yesterday. PHRIES. S5, freelance cachtmaY
And Che well-laid pians went ter. of Townsend Terrace, Ea;t
further astray when the yacht. Allingtoa, Devon, four years.
the Aurac, in the face of wind �10,000 yaCht
and c~rreats, arrived on the
South Devon coast instead of Hu~uphries, won a scholar-
her destinadon in Sc~tland. 5hip to the Royal Navai College, ~
and the intended Euglish bu> er at Dartmouth, but resigned 6is -
refused to accept the consign� eommission as a sub lieuteaant.
ment. Bolton became involved after
According to Mr St~oN his ' lucrative business takina
QUADRAT, defending one of five t;ourists for sailing trips off
well educated and highly m- Jamaica collapsed when bis
telliqent " conspira[ors a[ Plp�- facht sank.
mouth Cro�~n Court, who w~ere Hollaad's common law wife.
arrested last September ��ithin ~'(aRGARET CORDER. 33, a clothes
five days of landing in Brita~n, designer and former music tea-
the venture ` never had a ~her. was given an . 1R month
starter's chance." sentence. sucpended for two
- He w�as defending PETER vears. All admitted being con�
WE[SEA 30, son of a ~ew York cerned in the illeqal importa-
busines~man, wno ~vas ja~led tion of the drug.
for sis years after bein� des� , ~ir H.IROLD HEBRON, prosecu-
cribed by Judge A`('fHONY tin~, said that Weiser appeared
_ Gaoon~.t as a ringleader in the to 6ave beea the organiser of
plot. the venture in Morocco and
_ \Ir Quadrat said that Weiser. recruited Holland and Bolton.
who lived in Tangier wit6 his Holland, in turn, a roached
English wife and three child� Aumphries and t6ese t~vo
ren. became involved aftcr
bein~t appr.oached bv t~so sailed the yac6t, which had
Moroccan businessmen when been bought for �10,000 b~�
his craftwork erport business ty~~r specifically for the
ran into financial prublems. drugs run to Britain.
But the ventive was not par- Judge GOODALL said: "This
~ ticularly nrnfessional and ~+'as importation of drugs on a
Weiser was lPft �ith more than lar~e scale and tbe sentences
SQO lb of cannabis must be deavy. You played for ~
high stakes and S�ou must pay
the penalty."
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