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30 October 1980
- WORLD~IIDE REPO~tT
NARC9TICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 46/80)
- CONTENTS
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, AUSTRALIA
- Briefs
Slain Heroin Importer 1
Robber Heroin Addict 1
Sydney Heroin Convictions 1
_ Suapected Cocaine Importere 2
~ ~ Bail for Heroin Suspect 2
Heroin Pusher Remanded 2
Heroin Pusher Released 2
Heroin in Stomach 3
Heroin Conviction 3
Hashish in Ic~n 3
BURMA
Briefs
Rangoon Drug Seizures 4
NEPAL
_ Government Urged To Act on Growing Drug Abuse Problem
(THE RISING NEPAL, 27 Seu 80) 5
NEW ZEALAND
Brie�s
Drug Statiatice 7
Drugs in Prisone 7
Drug Death Sentence 7
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PAKI S'I'AN
Briefs
Mandrax Consignment Seized a
Multan Charas Seizure 8
Charas Seized 8
Contraband Drugs Seized 8
THAILAND
Briefs
Australian Iieroin Trafficker 9
LATIN AMERICA
BAHAMAS
' SDP's Solomon Sccres PM's Drug Trafficking Stand
(THE TRIBUNE, 30 Sep 80) 10
~ Colombians Arrested, Charged With Drug Possession ;
(THE TRIBTJNE, 30 Sep 80) 13 '
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sARBADOS -
Briefs
Drug Convictions Increase 16
BOLIVIA
Interior Minister's Role in Cocair~e Trade Noted
(Luiz Claudio Cunha; VEJA, 8 Oct 80) 17
Briefs
Coca Production 19
Lrug Meeting Proposed 19
Cocaine Confiscated 19
BRAZIL
- International. Cocaine Trafficking Ring Disbanded in ~tio
(0 GLOBO, 24, 25 Sep 80) 20
Cocaine Seized in Lagoa
~ Bolivian Cocai.ne Trafficker Arrested
Local Drug Connection biscovered
~Z5T0 E, 20 A~g 80) 25
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Education Progratn on Drug-Related I1~~ To Be Instituted
~0 GLOBO, 9 Sep 80) 28
Briefs
- Ring Disbanded in Porto Alegre 29
Cocaine Traffickere Arreated 29
COLOMBIA
Guajira 'Drug War,' Army's Role Described
(German Manga; EL TIEMPO, 13 Aug SO) 30
Official, Police Fired Over Traffickers' Escepe
(Narciso Castro Y.; EL TIEMPO, 20 Aug 80) 36
Judge ArrestQd With Cocaine Va~lued at 200 Million Peaos
(EL TIE1~0, 13, 19 Aug 80) 37
Judge, Others Arrested, by Alvaro Caicedo
Judge Suspended by Court
- Fired Judgz Implicated in Cocaine Traffic
(EL ESPECTADOR~ 19 Sep 80) 39
Court Martial for Military Traffickers Te Begin
(EL ESPECTADOR, 20 Sep 80) 40
Traffickers, Cocaine Seized by DAS Agents
(EL ESPECTADOR, 19 Sep 80) 41
Plane, Traffickers, Laboratory Seized in E1 Valle
(Jorge E. Orozco; EL TIEMPd, 26 Aug 80) 42
Traffickers' Plane Crashes at Sea
(EL TIEMPO, 22 Sep 80) 44
Cocaine Laboratory Seized, Three Arrested
(Alvaro Caicedo; EL TIEMPO, 20 Aug 80) 45
� Briefs
Drug Traffickers Ca+:.ght 46
Traffickers in Riohacha Breakout 46
Large Marihuana Plantatione 46
Cocaine Laboratory 47
PERU
Briefs
Cocaine Traffickin~ 48
Demand To Grow Coca 48
_ Drug Arreats 48
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TURKS AND CAICOS
Briefa
Traffickera Escape Prieon 49
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
AFGHANISTAN
Briefs
Official Attends Vienna Meeting 50
IRAN
~ Resulta of Anti-Narcotic Efforta Reviewed
(KEYHAN, 10 Sep 80) 51
Interview With Khalkhali
Addict Statistics
Tehran ~.riti-Addiction Center~ Listed
~REYHAN, 10 Sep 80) 58
Briefs
Narcotics Diacovered 60
RUWAIT
Briefs
= Hashiah, Opium Case 61
Mandrax Case 61
Fl~ST EUROPE
FRANCE
Police Diacover LSD Drug Network Involving 30 Persons
(Gabriel Chakra; LE FICARO, 16 Sep 80) 62
Police Arreat Postman for Importing Over 200 Kg of Hashish
(Daniel Curzi; LE FIGARO, 18 Sep 80) 64
Better Information Sought on Student Use af Drugs
(Jacques Malherbe; LE FIGARO, I Jv~.l 80) 60
Briefs
- Drug Trafficking Ind~.ctmenta 68
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ITALY
Problems of Drug Addiction in Cagliari
(LA NUOVA SARDEGN6~, 28 Sep 80) 69
~ao Heroin Dealers Arreated in Cagliari
(L'UNIONE SARDA, 25 Sep 80) 72
Drug Dealers Ar~ested in Salerno
(Alf.onso C~trella; GAZZETTA DEL SUD, 13 Sep 80) 74
Briefs
Ceuple Possesaing Heroin Arrested 76
Drug Pusher A~rested 76
T~ao Heroin Addicts .Arreated 77
SWEDEN
Police Arreat Col.ombian Narcotics Ring in Stockholm
(Leif Datilin; DAGENS NYHETER, 24 Sep 80) 78
Stockhalm Police Arreat Over 30 Drug Sellers in Parka
(Claes von Hofaten; F,VENSKA DAGBLAD~T, 26 Sep 80) . 80
Plentiful Heroin Supply Leads To Price Wart More Usage
(Agneta Lagercrantz; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 25 Sep 80). 81
Briefs
Flight Steward Smuggled Harahish 83
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AUSTRALIA
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SLAIN HEFCOIN IMPORTER--Melbourne homicide detectives believe a man whose
bullet-riddled body was found dumped near a railway siding was murdered
as a result of an undenrorld drug feud. Detectives said yesterday they
had linked the killing to the shooting of a Me3.baurne drug dealer last
month. The latest victim was John Desmond Gordon, 31, of Inkerman
Street, St Kilda. Gordon was to have been a witness at the inquest into
the death of a St Kilda heroin dealer found shot dead on July 21. Peter
Dale Russell was killed by two men who burst into his flat in what police
� believe was an attempted drug robbery. Gordon's body was found by two
' boys near Lilydale Airport, 14km east of Melbourne, on Sunday. Detec-
- tives said he was killed elsewhere by two shotgun blasts to the back and
side. Gordon�was on bail on a charge of having possessed a machine gun. _
He was arrestgd during the inveatigation into Russell's death. Police
said there had been no attempt made to conceal Gordon's body. They said
' last night ther2 was no doubt Gordon had been killed as a result of a
drsg feud. He had a long criminal record as ~ heroin importer and user. _
~Text] [Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 26 Aug 80 p 1] -
~ ROBBER HEROIN ADDICT--A labourer who robbed a bottle shop while armed
with an cnloaded shotgun was sentenc~d to four years ~ail in the District
- Criminal Court Darlinghu.rst yester.day. John James Williams, 21, wno is
serving a sentence for stealing, pleaded guilty to assault and robbery
at Summer Hill on June �i, 1978. Detective ~~nior Con:stable I, Kennedy
of the Armed Holdup Squad said Williams was a heroin addict and at the
- ' time of the robbery was receiving methadone treatment. Judge Barbour
said $955 was taken and that Williams committed the robbery to support his
heroyn~habit. He tentenced Williams to four years hard labour and set a
non-parole period to end on April 17, 1982. [Text] [Sydr.~~y THE SYDNEY -
MORNING HERALD in English 19 Aug 80 p 9]
SYDNEY HEROIN CONVrCTIONS--A businessman who claimed a gambling debt led
him to deal in heroin was sentencec~ to nine years' jail by the District -
Criminal Court yesterday. Nyen Vui Yong, 44, company director, of Singa-
pore, pleaded not gui~ty to three charges of supplying heroin in Sydney
on May 6, May 10 and May 16 last year. ~he ~ury found him guilty last
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k~eek of all three charges of supplyin~ a total of 10 pounds of heroin.
Gerald Kron, 49, a pensioner, of Murriverie Road, Bondi North, who
appeared with Yong, was found guilty of supplying heroin in Sydney on =
May 12 last year. He was sentended to three years' jail. Judge Love- �
day commended police officer and particularly Detective Geoffrey Owens
for their work on the case, He sentenced Yong to nine years' ~ail on
each of the three charges, to be served concurrently, with a nonparole
period until May, 1983. Kron was given a non-parole period until July, _
1981. [Excerpts] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 21 Aug 80 _
- p 12]
SUSPECTED CUCAINE IMPORTERS--Two men charged with pc~sessing cocaine
with a street value said to be more than $3 million were refused bail
in the St James Court of Petty Sessions yesterda.y. Wayne Eric Johnson,
29, unemployed, of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Stephen John Thur-
ling, 30, doorman, of Glover Street, Cremdrne, were charged with possess- _
ing cncaine, reasonably suspected of being impo~�ted into Australia, at
Sydney on August 20. Mr D. Khoury, appearing For the two men applied
for bail and said they "strongly declared" tHeir i.nnocence. Mr G. Smyth,
SM, refused bail and adjourned the matter to August 28. [Excerpts]
[Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 22 Aug 80 p 14J ~
BAIL FOR HEROIN SUSPECT--A man charged with possessing heroin with iiCent !
to supply or sell it was granted bail of $10,0~0 with a$5000 surety
when he appeared in the East Perth Court on Saturday. Nathaniel Robert-
son (23), unemployed, of Penistone Street, Greenwood, did not plead to
the charge, which alleged that he had the heroin at Greenwood on Friday.
[Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 18 Aug 80 p 27~
HEROIN PUSHER REMANDED--A man alleged to have received $15,300 from sell- ~
ing heroin appeared in the East Perth Court yesterday on four charges. -
Ian Stanley Bloomfield (25), unemployed, cf Gwelup, was nat required ro -
plead and was remanded in custody till August 22. [Text) [Perth THE
_ WEST AUSTR.ALIAN in English 14 Aug 80 p 29)
- HEROIN PUSHER RELEASED--A 29-year-o1a man who was gaoled for seven years
in March for possession of heroin said to be worth $500,000 walked out ~
of the Supreme Court yesterday, a free man. Ahmet Djemal Zibillari, who
won an appeal in the Court of Crt~ninal Appeal in June, was discharged
from custody when the crown discontinued the prosecution at his retrial.
Though a jury was empanelled it was absent during almost three hours of
legal argument and was released by Mr Justice Wickham after Zibillari had
left the court. Mr Justice Wickham told the jury that there was nothing
for it to do because the crown had decided not to continue with the ~
prosecution. He said the reason was that the facts and the elements to
be proved in the case had been exactly the same as those in a charge of
which Zibillari had previously been acquitted. In Australia, a person
who had been convicted could not be convicted of the same offence and a
person who had been acquitted must not be put in ~eopardy of conviction
again for the same offence. [Excerpt] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in
English 20 Aug 80 p 4]
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HEROIN IN STOMACH--A Darwin man who brought 30.4 grams of heroin into
Australia ir his atomach was gaoled by the Supreme Court yesterday.
The Acting Chief JusLice, Mr Justice Lat�an, gaoled David Albert Lean
(30), of Stuart Park, Tiarwin, for four years with a minimum 18 month
period before parole. The ~udge said that I,ean had swallowed 35 cap-
sules containing the h~roin while on a flight from Malaysia to Perth.
When arrested, he claimed that apart from two grams he intended giving
to a friend he meant to use the heroin to satisfy his own $400-a-day
habit. [Text) [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 23 Aug 80 p 20]
- HEROIN CONVICTION--A 29-year-old masseuse was convicted in the Beaufort
Street Co urt yesterday of possession of one gram of heroin. She was
fined $500. Leanr_e Jean Smith, of Peninsula Road, Maylands, pleaded
guilty. She said the drug was for her own use. [Text] [Perth THE
inTEST AUSTRALIAN in English 30 Aug 80 p 21]
IiASHISH IN ICON--Melbourne--Resin that oozed from holes drilled in a
~ wooden icon by airport Customs officials was part of a quantity of
I~.ashish oil worth $300,000, Melbourne Niagistrates Caurt was told yester-
- day. The oil was seized at Tullamarine Airport on August 12. D~tective
_ Senior Constable Bernard Hansell, of the Federal Police, said the oil,
in Qir. plastic bags, weighed 4,034 grams. "Five capsules could be
obtained from every four giams of tne substarice and ~ach capsule would
be worth about $60 on the druo market," he said. Constable Hansell
told the undercover agent for the Narcotics Bureau before 3cining the
Federai Police. Souhala Isber, 29, of Harris Park, Sydney, ~;as sent to
tri31 in the County Court, beginning on October 1, charged with import-
ing prohibited imports (cannabis resin) and possessing prohibited imports.
She pleaded not guilty to both charges. Mr R.J. MrAllisrer, SM, refused
~ ~ail, Mr Frank Lecoutier, a Customs officer at Tullamarine told the
j court that on August 12 he processed incoming passengers for immigration
~ purposes. He said Miss Isber had arrived on an overseas flight after
changing planes at Sydney. When she was questioned about a quarantine
and Customs card she had to complete, she had replied that she did not
understand English. Mr Lecoutier said a"100 per cent search of Isber's
baggage was then carried out." Mr Dennis Anthony Grant, also a Customs
officer, said a quantity of a drug he called "hash oil" was found in a
wooden icon Isber had. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in
English 29 Aug 80 p 12]
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RANGOON L~RUG SEIZURES--A police party from Latha Police Station acting
on information, raided the house of one Gyohtaung alias Than Zaw of No
35, 18th Street on 2 October and seized a penicillin vial containing
heroin with a stree value of K 350, ten tempty vials, a packet of heroin -
worth about K 50 and K 1,089 in cas~. T~hein Han, Soe Naing, Kyaw Pfya,
Maung Tun, Kyaw Nyunt Oo, Soe Aung and Yi Yi Mya alias Moe Moe who were
in the house were arreated. Police are taking actio oseessi n)y~10(b)g -
alias T.han Zaw and seven others under Sections 6(b) (p
(sale), 11 (abetment) and 14(d) (failure to register f or treatment) of
the Narcotic Drugs Law. Similarly, 16 packets of hero in worth about
K 5,600 were seized from Maung Thein alias Lin Yone, Aung Myint and
Sein Kyi alias Aung Min at a tea-shop at the corner of Kyongyi and
Shwedaungtan Streets on 18 September evening. They were arrested by
Latha Police and transferred to Lanmadaw Police. Action is being taken
against them under Sections 6(b), 10(b), 11 and 14(d) of the Narcotic -
Drugs Law. [T~xt] [Rangoon T'dE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 5 Oct _
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NEPAL
GOVERNMENT URGED TO ACT ON GROWING DRUG ABUSE PROBLEM
Kathmandu TAE RISING NEPAL in English 27 Sep 80 p 3 .
[Excerpt] Kathuiandu, Sept. 26: Father Thomas Gafney, the director of St.
Xavier's School Service Centres has made a.plea to the society at large, to -
tr.e parents and the Government to act before l~te to deal with the ever
growir~, problem of drug abuse in Nepal, reports RSS. ~
Father Gafney made the plea present~ng a paper on Nepal's probleme of hard
drug abuse at a seminar of drug abuse and addiction here Tuesday under the
auapices of the Kathmandu Jaycees in cooperation with Colombo Plan Bureau.
Stating that the number of Nepalese addicts on hard drugs, oaly fifty about
three years ago, has increased to 500 today, he said, the numbers are small
compared to other co~~ntries such as Thai].and and Aong Kong but the number
in Nepal's case has multiplied ten times.
. Father Gafney pointPa out that there were many foreigne~s tnday invol~~ed in
drug abuse axtd salea out made clear that he was talking of hard drug ad-
dicts like opium, morphine and heroin (amack).
- Ae has personally provided treatment to 80 Nepalese nationals ranging from ~
the very rich and the rich down to the poor and ~ery poor. They included
every major caste group like Newars, Chhetrys, Brahmins, Tibetans, Tibetan
Muslims, Nepalese Muslim etc. _
Moat of the hard drug addicts that came for treatment to Father Gafney were
young men ~anging in age between eighteen and twenty-eix. There a~e some
female abuaers both in public and private seclusion but these are relatively
few.
He referred to scholarly surveys which showed that the chie~~ causea of drug
abuse were curiosity, a new for acceptance, a desire for pleasure and the
absence of healthy, alternative recreational outlete. Others ha~ve come to
the drug acene merely because it offers easy and quick money for the fi-
nancially deprived.
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Opium and morphine come to Nepal from Benares primarily, and until very ~
recently heroin has come only from Bangkok and PAttaya or Ch~.ang Mai of
Thailand either directly or via Sri ~.anka. Indian made heroin are also
- coming in with Benaree morphine and opium, he said.
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DRUG STATISTICS-~Jellington (Press Assn)--There were 15 drug-related `
' deaths in New Zealand last year. The Minister of Police, Mr Couch, told
Parliament yesterday that there were 5009 drug convictions last year. Of
those, 356 were related to heroin, 13 to opiates and 64 to LSD. For the
, first six months of this year, there had been 3605 convictions and only
35 of those were heroin-related. LText7 L~Bluckland THE NEW ZE~ILA?ND HERA?LD
in English 4 Sep 80 p S7
DRUGS IN PRISONS--Justice Department attempts to intercept the entry of
drugs into ~risons have been stepped up and are pio~ving effective. This
was indicated in the annual report for the Department of Justice. In the
penal section of the report the Secretary for Justi~ (Mr J F Robertson)
said that early last year there Was cause for concern about the increase -
in the number of actual and suspected drug incidents in prisons, and es- -
pecially the involvement of visitors. Under amendments to the pena.l reg-
ulations restricti ons were placed on the kinds of items which might be
received by an inmate from outside the institution. "It is clear from
the comments of superintendents that the new provisions are having the
desired effect." /Excerpts7 LFlellington THE EVTIVING POST in English
24 Sep 80 p 147
' DRUG DEATH SENTENCE--The death of a 15-year-old schoolboy at Porirua on
September 1 led to an 18-Knonth jail sentence for a man in the High Court _
today. Robin Wikingi, alias David Paaka, 21, pipe-fitter, had pleaded
guilty on arraignment to supplying a class C controlled drug to a person
under 18, also to three charges of unlawful7.y taking cars, one of burgla-
ry and one of escaping from lawful custody. Hugh Mdriillan, aged 15, died
of an overdose of sodiwn amytal. ~xcerpt7 LWellington THE EVErTING POST
in English 19 Sep 80 p 227
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~ MANDRAX CONSIGNMENT SEIZED--The Customs staff of the airport has confiscated
a consignment of "Mandrax" worth Ra 20 lakh which was imported by a local
_ party under the name of chemicals. The consignment was imported froa~ West
Germany but since it did not had any apecific diecription, vigilance was
kept to find out the party which has imported it. The consignment arrived
here in August but no one came to collect it which further aroused the sus-
picion of the Customs staff. They took a sample from the c~nsignment and
sent it to the laboratory for chemical analysis. The test report revealed
that it is a drug the import of which is prohibited in Pakiataa and there
is controlled use of this drug all over the world.--PPI [Teat] [Rarachi
DAWN in En.glish 8 Oct 80 p 8~ _
MULTAN CHARAS SEIZURE--Multan, Oct 11--Customs Intellig~nce, Multan,
has arrested a truck driver for allegedly smuggling a big quantity of
charas, cosi:ing to about Rs two crore. According to the raiding team,
the truck driver who belonged to tribal area, was carrying bi~ packets
of charas in truck No BU-7415 for Karachi, fram where he intended to
; smuggle it to some foreign country. The alleged smuggler was trapped
near Muzaffargarh town on his way to Karachi on the National Highway.
A case under Customs and Excise Act has been registered againat him and
, further investigations are o?. [Text] [Karachi DAWN in English 12 Oct 80
p 3]
CHARA.S SEIZED--Hyderabad, Oct. 6--The Excise and Taxation staff on Saturday
arrested one Abdul Ghani and recovered 80 kilograms of contraband charas
from his possession. According to deta.ils, the Director, Excise aud Tsxa-
tion, Hyderabad, received an informatian tha.t one narcotic smuggler, Abdul
Ghani Pathan is carrying charas frcm one district to.~t~t. The Exciae
staff detected Abdul Gha.ni Patha.n near railway crossing, Taado Mnham~ad
Khan Town and recovered 80 kilograms of charas fram his possesaion. Tt?e
accused has been challanged in the court of lsw under Akbari Act and Hudood
Ordinance.--APP ~Text~ ~Karachi I~RNING NEWS in Engiish 7 OcC 80 p 3~
- CONTRABAND DRIJGS SEIZED--The Customs staff has seized a consigrnnent of
MeChaqolone, worth Rso 20 lakh recently imported b~r some businessman as
chemical from Weat Germa.ny, T'he Sea Customs sources said that thz test
report of the consignment revealed that it ~s a drug of abuse and its
import was banned in Pakistan. Imrestigations a18o revea.led that this is
a popular drug sold to the addicts after its conversion into tablets and
capsules. ~Text] [Karachi MQ1tNING NEWS in En~glish 8 Oct 80p 5~
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THAILAND
BRIEFS
AUSTRALIAN HEROIN TRAF'FICKER--Bangkok, ~ri:--An Australian acquittec' by
the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, last February was sentenced
yesterday to 13 �-ears and eight months' gaol for attempted heroin traf-
ficking. Owen W~.~dham Jones (25), an Adelaide gemstone dealer, was found
guilty by the Appeals Court of possessing 1050 grams of heroin with intent
to sell it. The Appeals Court, in reversing the Criminal Court's verdict
of not guilty, first sentenced Jones to 20 years' gaol, but because a
statement he had made to the police had helped the case, it was reduced
by a third. Jones, who was arrested in Bangkok in Ncvember 1978, is serti~-
ing a one-year sentence for possessing a small quantity of heroin in pri�-
son. [Excerpt] (Perth TIiE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 30 Aug 80 p 20]
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BAxaMas
SDP'S SOLOMON SCORES PM'S DRUG TRAFFICKING STAND
Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 30 Sep 80 p 1
[Excerpts] The leader of the Official Opposition Social Democratic
Party today questioned whether Prime Minister Pindling was serious in
his intent to stamp out drug trafficking in the Bahamas.
Mr Norman Solomon said he could not accept the present "laissez-faire
attitude" of Government to some of the things going on in the country
"if the Prime Minister is really serious about it."
Mr Solomon agreed with the Prime Minister that the ~ob (on drugs) can't
be done with available Bahamian equipment. "Of course we need assistance
- from America if the ~ob is to be done," he said.
- But, he said, if Mr Pindling were serious about the statements made in
- Washington yesterday "then he is one of the most incapable of people."
Mr Solomon said that eight years or so ago the Drug Enforcement Admin-
- istration in Florida was "actively engaged in work in the Bahamas," but
not only were Bahamian authorities not being cooperative, but they were
, downright obstructive.
"There were people--agents in the field--who told me they found it
impossible to work in the Bahamas," he charged. And he said this was
confirmed by 'higher-ups' in the DEA. "Tliey couldn't understand the
non-cooperation of the Bahamian authorities," said Mr Solomon.
The SDP leader said he raised all this matter publicly at the time but
nothing was done about it.
And Mr Solomon said he would 3.ike to ask the Prime Minister why Mr
Joe Lehder of Norman's Cay had not been deported from the country when
it was discovered what was going on at that tiny Exuma Cay? "Why was
= he not deported, but just put on the stop lisC?" Mr Solomon asked.
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He said it wds his information that Mr Lehder had been back in the
country "often" and he wanted to know if the rumour were true that the
Prime Minister, a Cabinet Minister and a government back-bencher bad
visited Norman's Cay as the guest of Mr L~hder?
"A government back-bencher told me he got the red carpet treatment when
he visited," Mr Solomon said.
Mr Solomon said the MIAMI HERALD had published the record of Mr Lehder
and government could hardly plead innocence that they had no idea of
his bac'.~cground .
"Further, I would also like to ask the Prime Minister about Mr Frank
Brady at Hawksnest, Cat Island," who, he said, was recently picked up
on a drugs charge in the West Palm Beach area and had to post $250,000
bail.
"Why is he only on the stop list? Why wasn't he deported from the
country?" asked Mr Solomon.
Mr Solomon wanted to know why the government was "just messing about"
with Mr Lehder and Mr Brady and had not closed down their operations I
and thrown them out of the country. -
"How can we believe the Prime Minister in his 'serious intent to stamp
out this (drugs) when this is allowed to go on," said i~[r Solomon.
Further, he said it was totally wrong to ascribe all the drug txaffic
to American gangsters. "What about the pushers on Bay Street?" he asked.
Surely, he said, the police could do something about that!" "But, no,
they still harass the tourists and give us a bad name, and letters get
written to the press and to travel magazines both here and abroad."
"No, I just don't believe the Prime Minister is serious about it.
There's too much of a laissez-faire attitude about the whole damn _
thing," he said.
Mr Ed Moxey, speaking as Administrative Officer of the People's
National Council, said the remarks by the Prime Minister over the
"Today" show would likely result in further damage to our already
damaged Bahamian economy.
"By implication the PM has confirmed all that the US Congressman (Harry
Yourell) had to say. But whereas the Congressman's revelation may have
reached a few thousand, the PM':s utterances have reached millions," he
said today.
And he said "If what the Prime Minister said is correct, then the offi-
cial opposition in Parliament should immediately request an emergency
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sessior.of Parliament to deal with this very damaging revelation
(that American gangsters are invading the country)."
Mr Moxey said the Ptime Mirtister owes it to his colleagues, to the 1
a oppasition and to the people of this country to explain exactly what
is happening.
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BAHAMAS
COLOMBIANS ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH DRUG POSSESSION
NassaL THE TRIBUNE in English 30 Sep 80 pp 1, 10
[Text] Three Colombians were each granted $10,000 bail for posession
of 31 crocus bags of marijuana. Two paid bail, left the country and
did not return for trial. The third, unable to pay ris bail, was sen-
tenced to 18 months in prison.
Charged were Juan Deleon, 25, Enrique Tabareo, 40, and Mario Paruz, 60,
all of Colombia. The men were charged with being in possession of 31
bags of marijuana at Guinchos Cay on March 23. Bail, originally set
at $100,000 cash each, was reduced to $18,000 cash and finally to $10,000
cash each.
- Juan Deleon and Enrique Tabares paid ba.il, and did not return for trial,
leaving an elderly Mario Paruz imprisoned in a cell for six months,
awaiting trial.
Acting magistrate Sam Campbell ruled yesterday that he found the defen-
dant guilty as charged, and sentenced him to 18 months in prison,
effective March, 1980.
- Lieutenant Allens, a navigating officer of the Royal Bahamas Defence
Force was the first to give evidence in the case. He told the court
that at 8 am March 23, he was aboard the HMBS Flamingo during a routine
patrol of the north and southwestern Bahamas when he saw a suspicious
vessel about two and a half miles from Guinchos Cay.
As he got closer to the boat he was able to see the registration
- number, FL 7913 AY, and the name 'Caballo Logo' printed on the vessel.
He said there was a large number of bags suspected of containing mari-
juana on board.
The vessel was partly submerged due to the amount of cargo on board and
the rough weather at sea. Members of the HMBS Flamingo boarded the
'Caballo Logo' where they found three Colombians on board. Lieutenant
Allens said that the men were transferred to~the Flamingo after the
'Caballo Logo' was searched.
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He said that same of the bags from the partly submerged vessel fell
off the deck of the boat into the water. Defence Force men were able
to reclaim 31 bags but were later informed by one of the Colombians
that 200 bags of mari~uana were aboard the vessel.
Allens said he was told by the Colombians that they got the drugs from
Cay Verde an~i w~re transporting it to Florida. The men were brought to
- Nassau aboard the Flamingo and charged. 'Caballo Logo' ~aas left behind
- to sink.
Lieutenant Commander R~lle of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force said in
his ~evidence that on March 24 he was co~andi;~g the officers of the HMBS
Flamingo during a patrol of the north and southwestern Bahamas when
he saw a vessel which bore the name 'Caballo Logo' two and a half miles
from Guincho:~ Cay.
The vessel was intercepted and boarded. On board were three men and a
large cargo of suspected mzrijuana. He said he questioned the captain
concerning the suspected cargo of mari3uana and wss told by the captain
that he was on his way to take the 'Caballo Logo' to the Dominican
Republic and had stopped at Cay Verde en route.
There he found a large quantity of what he suspected to be mari~uana.
The captain said that the three men decided to load the drug on their
vessel, with the intention of taking it to 1Kiami Florida. The captain
told Commander Rolle tht~t the amount was approximately 200 bags, weighed
five tons, and a had a street value of about two million dollars.
The captain said that he knew he was taking a risk but considering the
value of the drugs he thought the risk wa~ worth taking.
Commander Rolle said the vessel appeared to be dangerously overloaded
and sank shortly after interception. He said the three men were taken
aboard the Flamingo, along with 31 bags of mari~uana, which he retrieved
from the vessel.
The Colombians were brought to Nassau, handed over to CID officials along
with the bags of marijuana, and later charged with the offence.
- In his evidence, Mario Paruz told the court that when the captain of
- 'Caballo Logo' started to load the marijuana aboard the vessel at Cay
Verde, he asked him what would be the risk involved. He said he was
informed by the captain that he was the owner of the vessel and that
he knew what he was doing.
He said that it wa~ the captain and the other man who loaded the bags
of mari,juana onto the vessel and that he had nothing to do with it.
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Paruz said he was aboard the 'Caballo Logo' on a pleasure trip, en
route to the Dominican Republic.
- In his ~uling Magistrate Campbell said he found th~ Defence Force
witnesses reliable ones and thxt he did not believe the defendanr.'s
st~ry that he had nothing to do with the loading of the bags dn to
the ship. Accordingly he found the defendant guilty as charged but
- had taken the fact that Paruz is an elderly man who had been in custody
since March into consideratior~.
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BaRBAnos
- BRIEFS
DRUG CONVICTIONS INCREASE--Se::ator Dennis Hunte said that Barbados should
be concerned about the large numbers of persons connicted of drug
offences in the island. He was speaking on Bill to amend the Customs
Act, Cap 66, in the Senate. Senator Hunte said ttiat any legislation
aimed at stopping loopholes in the Act w~~uld have the support of the
whole community. He praised the Customs officers who were vigilanr at
the airport in stopping large quantities of drugs from entering the
island. Senator Hunte asked Government to consider looking at legislation
in trying to plug some of the ~oopholes contained in the Custams Act.
The Bill was passed. [Text] [Bridgetown ADVOCATE-NEWS in English
25 Sep 80 p 1] _
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BOLIVYA
INTERIOR MINISTER'S ROI,E IN COCAINE TRADE NOTED
PY161745 Sao Paulo VEJA in Portuguese 8 Oct 80 p 72
[Exclusive report by Luiz Claudio Cunha, from La Paz]
[Text] During the first week in July of this year, a twin-engined Piper
Aztec exploded over a populated area located 15 k3lometers from La Paz.
The plane's three occupants were killed. The 8olivian police found
several grips containing $2 million in $50 and $140 bills. Intrigued,
the police were examining the baggage, when a helicopter landed in the
midst of the parts of the destroyed pla~ie and the owner of the air taxi
firm to which the Piper belonged descended: It was Col Luis Arce Gomez,
at that time chief of the army's intelligence service (SIE). With
- harsh gestures Arce tore up the report drafted by the police and ordered
them to return to La Paz and maintain absolute secrecy regarding this
incident.
In this year alone, three of Arce's planes have been destroyed in _
accidents that have never been cleared up. In Bolivia, the dE~a1s of the
colonel, who has been interior minister since Gen Luis Garcia Meza
became president, are not within the reach of police investigations.
"The madman" [E1 Loco"], as his comrades in arms call him, or "Arcesino"
[play on his name and the Spanish word for murderer] to his innumerable
_ enemies, Col Luis Arce Gomez, 42, is a veteran regarding contraventions.
During the government of Rene Sarrientos, when he was a captain, he got
involved in the smuggling of leather [couro] and cigarettes to Paraguay.
While climbing the ladder of honors, he was also climbing the ladder in
clandestine traffic. Today Arce is the brain of the militarymen w~o
are involved in the billion-dollar traffic of cocaine.
Az�ce's paramour, Rosario Poggi de Qaesada, an attractive 37-year-old -
brunette, who during the 70's was one o~ the couriers between Spain
and Bolivia, is officially the general secretary of the Interior
Ministry, but unofficially she occupies the second place in the �
colonel's clandestine empire. Norberto "Bubby " Salomon, an air force
colonel and Arce's partner in air transport ent~rp`rises, is also
accumulating nosts in the government and in the illegal organization
while he ia subordinated to the Interior Ministry. After the victorious
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coup headed by Garcia Meza, Bubby Salomon was rewarded with the post
_ of ~ilitary attache in Caracas. A plane belonging to Salomon crashed
in May in an air~,ort in Beni Department with 320 kilograms of cocaine ~
on board.
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The salary of a colonel in Bolivia is $800, and yet Salomon is the owner
, of three ranches and three houses in La Paz, which he rents out . Like _
th e majority of the uniformed stars who trade in drugs, Salomon has
served in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, the center of cocaine traffic in
Bolivian territory. Rebellious generals leave Santa Cruz heading for
La Paz, and cocaine paste leaves it headed for the rest of the world.
In a meeting last June with the Santa Cruz cocaine magnates, Gen Hugo
Echeverria, commander of II Cor~,s, which is based in the city, received
a donation of $2.7 million so that he could overthrow the government
and scare away the specter of repxession against trafficking.
Ech everria promised Garcia Meza th at he and a group of friends, "my
friends from Montero," according to the general, would in some way
~ or another collect the necessary $3 billion in order to pay off the
foreign debt, Montero, 45 kilometers from Santa Cruz, is virtually
the top free cocaine zone in Bolivian territory. !
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Outside of Bolivia, Arce's friends are always expos2d to sudden shocks.
Alfredo "Cutuchi" Gutierrez, the owner of a landin;z strip located at '
Kil ometer 7 of the Santa Cruz-Cochab amba highway, wnich is encircled -
by h igh walls and is equipped with searchlights that are perfect for
landing at night, was arrested in Miami during May 1~79 while in charge
of a plane that was full of cocaine. He stayed no longer than 24 hours
in j ail, but this incident alerted Arce about the special care that must
be taken regarding Miami, the main door through which drugs enter the
Uni ted S tates .
Bolivia currently maintains six consuls in Miami, one of whom is Arce's
fath er. All of them were picked personally by the interior minister,
who is afraid of diplomatic slipups, but he seems to be convinced that
he is not exposed to eventual ecanomic reprisals from the U.S. Govern-
men t .
D~sr ing a party held recently by friends in La Paz, Arce, quite boldly
su~med up the points on which he bases his confidence. "Tin represents
$4J0 million a year, but cocaine gives us $1.2 billion," the minister
explained, "If the Americans suspend their aid, I do not make myself
responsible for the swamping of the United States with cocaine."
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BRIEFS
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COCA PRODUCTION--Sao Paulo--During a recent party staged in La Paz,
Interior Minister Col Luis Arce Gomez, the maste~mind of the Bolivian
military officers involved in cocaine traffie, openly stated: '`Tin
accounts for $400 million per year, but co~a gives us $1.2 billion.
If the Americans suspe~.ld their aid, I will not assume responsibility
f or the flooding of the United States with cocaine." In today's issue, -
the magazine VEJA is publishing a survey of coca ;~roduction and c~caine
' traffic in Latin America. According to the magazine, "the broad powder -
front" gathers "under the same interests Bolivian military officers,
communists of Cusco, C~lombian bus3nessmen, Brazilian indians in A1to
Rio Negro in Amazonas, and a multinational group of corrupt policemen,
nationalist politicians and technocrats of democratic governments and
dictatorships alike." [Text] [PY141945 Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL
in Portuguese 5 Oct 80 p 8]
DRUG MEETING PROPOSED--La Paz, 7 Oct (AFP)--Bolivian Interior Minister
~ Col Luis Arce Gomez announced today that Bolivia will propose a meeting
with ParagLayan, Argentine, Uruguayan, B,-azilian, Peruvian and Chilean
authorities to coordinate the struggle against drug traffic in the
So uthern Cone. The interior minister indicated that talks have been
launched so the meeting can be held as soon as possible. He emphasized
that this type of coordination already is operational with Paraguay and
~ Argentina but it is necessary to.involve the rest of the Southern Cone
countries. He recalled that U.S. President Jimmy Carter had tried to
apply psychological pressure on Bolivia by withdrawing U.S. aid for the
antidrug struggle. He said that this attitude has merely strengthened
, Bolivian efforts toward eradicating the drug traffic. The minister took
the opportunity to explain that Col Arcil Carba~al Aviles has been
appointed nati.onal director of the dangerous drugs department, replacing
CoI Jose Luis Arzabe who has been promoted to personal adviser to the
- interior minister. [Text] [PY091225 Paris AFP in Spanish 1611 GMT _
7 Oct 80]
COCAINE CONFISCATED--La Paz, 8 Oct (AFP)--It was reported here today
that the National ~Tarcotics Directorate has confiscated 14 kg of cocaine
sulphate in this city. In the heavy populated neighborhoods of
� E1 Tejar and La Portada, narcotics agents discovered a warehouse which -
contained cocaine ready for sale. The narnes of the traffickers are being
kept secret in order to proceed with the investigation, the authorities
indi cated, [Te~t] [PY192218 Paris AFP in Spanish 1734 GMT 8 Oct 80]
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BRAZIL
INTERNATIONElL COCAINE TRAFFICKING RING DISBANDF.D IN RIO
Cocaine Seized in Lagoa
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portugueae 24 Sep 80 p 17
[TextJ Some 3.5 kg of cocaine was se~.zed yesterday by a~olice aquad .
headed by Detective Ricardo Wilk of t}ie 15th Police Prec tct (Gavea)
' near the INAI~S [National Institute for Social Security .~edical Assis-
tance] hospital in Lagoa. The drug F~as f ound in a Volkswagen, license
No RS-9032, driver. by its owner, trafficker Wilson Vaeconcelos, 37 years
old. He was arrested with his accomplice, Jose Nunes de Moraes, 25
. years of age, alias Zezinho.
The drug, in 3 plastic bags, was seized in apartment 601, Rua Gilberto _
_ Cardoso 200, Leblon, rented by Zezinho and used by other traff ickers
with whom he has connections to be sold for 8 million cruzeiros to an
_ American, Tony Laurence. Tony is being sought by the police. Zezinho, ~
a Bolivian trafficker na~?ed Carlos Julio Benitez Candia, 25 years old, -
who had entered Brazil without a visa, and another known Bolivian, also
a member of the gang, were holding the drug in one of the hotela of the
South Zone where the transaction was to tal~e place.
- By Plane
' The Leblon apartment was also being used by traffickers ,Antonio Rodrigues
_ de Carvalho, 46 years old; Paulo Sergio Cunha, 36 years of age; and
Sergio Stofel de Castro, 37, although rented in Zezinho's name.
Sergio Stofel de Castro was ar:eated in Rua Joaquin Nabuco when approached
by the police who pretended to l�~ c~~:~fickers. He was the intermediary
in the cocaine purchase betwee.n the A~+ericon and the group who took the
drug to the apartment. He had written a che~ck for 135,000 cruzeiros,
- drawn on the Banco de Credito Real, which w+as to pay for 100 grams of �
cocaine; however, prior to closing the deal., he and the American wanted
to make sure the cocaine was pure, The chF:ck was confiscated in the
apartment while in the possession of Paulo Sergio Cunha, who ~as also
arreated.
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View at left shows cocaine in three plastic bags and ;
car license plates. Above, Bollvian Carlos Candia. '
Last May Paulo Sergio Cunha paid 250,000 cruzeiros to charter a plane to
. fly from ~'Iato Gro~so to Volta Redonda. The plane arrived with a shipment
of cocaine brought by the Bolivian, Carlos Julio Benitez Candia, and his :
fellow countryman who has disappeared. At the lSth Police Precinct
Paulo admitted that he was with the other accomplicea arrested in Volta
Redonda; he had brought his ~ife, Cinara Cunha, 23 years old, with him.
S:?e confirmed that she had actually been there with her husband but that :
"she did not know what was going on." She is 6 months pregnant. She
went to the police precinct accompanied by a doctor, who asked not to be ~
identif ied; he said he was helping her as a friend of the family and had '
nothing to do with the drug affair.
Automobile andWeapon
In the Volkswagen in which the cocaine was being transported, the police
found two licenae plates with the number MY-7269, which had been or were
to be used in connection with stolen cars. In a building in Rua Gilberto
Cardoso the police confiscated a Passat RT-1439 from Jose Nunea de
Moraes which had been stolen. He said he had bought it from a real eotate
broker, Claudio Roberto Ebner, 30 yeara, old, who had rented the apartment
to the traffickers. '
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Claudio denied having sold the automobi.le and said he had rented the
apartment for 2 months at 35,000 per month to sonteone named Zezinho
without knowing he was a trafficker. He admitted having bought an
American revolver, a 357 caliber Magnum (larger than tha 38 caliber), for
50,000 cruzeiros as partial payment of the rent. The weapon was seized
in his house.
Passport
In Bolivian Carlos Julio Benitez Candia's passport there was no recent
Brazilian entrance visa. The visas which were in the passport indicated
that on 20 June he had been in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia),
Carumba (South Mato Grosso) and Bogota (Colombia); on 4 Ju1y he had been
in La Paz (Bolivia) and Lima (Peru).
His passport was found in the apartment in Rua Gilberta Cardoso together
with three gold chains, two watches and a bracelet, also gold, all
valued at 1 million cruzeiros.
Yesterday Deputy Borges Fortes sent the cocaine for laboratory examina-
tion to the Carlos Eboli Criminal Institute, but there was no doubt
that it is pure. The traffickers were caught redhanded and are being
held at the 15th Police Precinct. Fortes said he contacted che federal
police yesterday to try to prevent the Bolivian, Carlos Julio Benitez
- Candia, and the American, Tony Laurance, from leaving the country.
Bolivian Cocaine Trafficker Arrested
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 25 Sep 80 p 12
[Text] Yesterday police of the 13th Police Precinct (Gavea) arrested a
Bolivian, Marcos Antonio Vasquez Lizarazii, one of the principal members
of an international gang of cocaine traffickers which had begun to break
up day before yesterday when its meeting place was discovered in Rio--
in an apartment in Leblon--and 5 of its members were arrestQd, in posses-
sion of 3.8 kg of pure cocaine.
Marcos Antonio Lazarazu, together with another Bolivian, Carlos Julio
_ Benitez Candia--the latter still a fugitive--had been obtaining large
_ quantities of pure cocaine in Bolivia and transporting it by chartered
planes to Volta Redonda. The gang has contacts with a number of Brazil--
iana in Rio from where the drug was sent to traffickers abroad; among
these was an American, Tony Laurence, to whom the shipment seized day
before yesterday was to be sold for 8 million cruzeiros.
In addition to the Bolivian, Lazarazu, the following Brazilians were also
arrested: Sergio Stofel de Castra, 37 years old; Wilson Vasconcelos,
- also 37; Jose Nunes de Moraes, alias Zezinho, 25 years of age; Paulo
Sergio Cunha, 36; and Antonio Rodrigues de Carvalho, 46.
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The police of the 15th Polj.ce Precinct said yesterday that one of them,
Wilson Vaeconcelos, has several very active bank accounts in Rio, one
of them with a balance of 978,000 cruzeiros. :Cn addition to the 3.8 kg
of cocaine seized from the gang, the police also confiscated a large
' quantity of ~ewels, two automobiles and license plates which had been
or were to be used in connection with stolen cars.
The Arrest
Deputy Borges Fortes of the 15th Police Precinct said yesterday that the
tip which led to the discovery of the gang had been given him 20 days
" ago. Someone had reported that the apartment cor~plex, "Selva de Pedra,"
in Leblon had been the scene of frequent meetings of drug traffickers and
car thiev~s. A few days later, three police officers assigned to the
~nvestigation--Arruda, Ricardo and Marquito--saw Wilson Vascancelos and
Zezinho in that area and proceeded to follow them.
Day before yesterday the police arrested Wilson and Zezinho in a
- Volkswagen, license No RS-9032, in front of the Lagoa hospital, with
3.5 kg of cocaine in plastic bags in their possession. Zezinho was in
the car, while Wilson was using a public telephone to talk with Sergio
Stofel de Castro to arrange the delivery of the shipment so that Stofel ;
could take it to the American, Tony Laurence, in the United States. '
A short time later, Sergio Stofel was arrested in Rua Joaquim Nab~ico. -
B~y interrogating the 3, the police discovered the gang's apartment, No
694, at Rua Gilberto Cardoso 200 in Leblon, where the police arrested
Paulo Sergio Cunha and Antonio Rodrigues de Carvalho.
In addition to the jewels found in the apartment, the police discovered
an additional 300 grams of cocaine in a pillowcase and documents belong-
. ing to the traffickers among which was the passport of the figitive
Bolivian, Carl.os Julic Benitez Candia, without any recent Brazilian
' entrance visa.
Chartered Plane _
Sergio Stofel admitted yesterday that he had made frequent trips between
tY~e United States and Brazil to transport cocaine. He said that the
gang had often transported the drug in a chartered plane from Santa
Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) to Volta Redonda (last May he had paid
_ 250,000 cruzeiros for one of those trips).
The police confiscat~d a check in the amount of 135,000 cruzeiros from
G?ilson Vasconcelos which he had received as partial payment for the 3.5
kg of cocaine (a sample, he said, so that the purchaser would ascertain
if the product was pure). The check was issued by Sergio 5tofel who was
the principal intermediary between the gang and traffickers abroad.
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Deputy Borgea Fortes explained yesterday that the apartment used by the
gang at Rua Gilberto Cardoso 200 ie 604, aot 601, ae reported yesterday.
Hs said that the number 601 was given infiially by the first traf~ickers
arrested "to confuse the police and enable the accomplices to eacano" but
that, day before yesterday, the de~ectives had discovered the gang in
apartment 604.
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BRAZIL
LOCAL DRUG CONNECTION DISCOVERED
Sao Paulo ISTO E in Portuguese 20 Aug 80 p 26
[Article by J.M.P. and V.M.]
[Text] When the military took power in Bolivia on the morning of 17 July
and declared a state of siege throughout the country, there was great ;
euphoria on a famous stretch of street in the center of the city of Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, known as "Wall Street" because of the enornnous volume ~
of business negotiated there daily. Smiling Bolivian businessmen embraced !
one another in the ahadows of the Cafe Comercio, celebrating their sudden !
financial fortune. Thanks to the coup d'etat, the merchandise they deal _
in--cocaine--doubled in value within a few hours. The wholesale price,
for export, reached 1 million cruzeiros per kg.
In succeeding weeks the situation proved to be doubly advantageous for the
dealers. On one hand, in a state of near-civil war gnd with the az~y in
the streets, trade can be expected to be difficult. Hence the traffickers
_ could plead scarcity and inflate the prices. Oa the other hand, there
began to emerge sure signs of connectione between individuals in the new .
~ nolivian regivae and big names i:s t?ie cocaine trau~. '~:ese signs WO:.c'.
- practically confirmed by the U.S. government when it suspended cooperation
with Bolivia in drug traffic control last Thursday, 14 August. The Ameri- ~
cans felt such collaboration would no longer be effective, which meant
greater freedom for the dealers. As for the price, what went up never
came down.
A Bil.lion Cruzeiros
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are the largest consumer markets for cocaine
in Brazil. The drug consumed here comes from Bolivia by a complicated
route, and its price has risen by 200 to 300 percent in recent weeks,
reaching 5,000 cruzeiros per gram. This is not, however, due solely to ~
the coup in Bolivia. On various operations in recent weeks, the Federal
Y'olice seized no less than 30 kg of cocaine, in Sao Paulo, Belem and
Manaus. The "merchandise" would have been sold for at least 1 billion
cruzieros.
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This unusual inflation has also affected the drug trade in Miami, where
, Bolivian cocaine obtained by routes that pass through Brazil is consumed
and distributed. In fact, the Federal Police operations revealed some
connections with the United States.
At the beginning of this month, Raul Leon Viales, a Costa Rican, was
_ detained at the Belem airport, where he was about to board a plane for the
United States. He was carrying a pouch containing 4 kg of cocaine, and he
- offered the traditional excuse: "I didn't know what I had there. They
- gave me the pouch at the hotel and asked me to bring it to the airport."
Shortly aftenaard, the police apprehended two t~merican traffickers in
Sao Paulo. They were carrying 7 kg of cocaine. They had come from Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, with stops in Ponta Por.ta, Presidente Prudente and
Londrina, and had planned to fly to Miami from Sao Paulo.
Brazili~3n Connection
The most spectacular operation became known, in part, on Wednesday,
13 September. Despite the absolute secrecy maintained by the Federal
Police, the arrest of 60 traffickers was reported, along with the discovery
of a group of four laboratories for the preparation of cocaine. Counter- ~
feit dollars, a number~ of weapons and 16 kg of pure cocaine were seized. ~
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The police are maintaining silence because the investigations are still '
contfnuing, but there are indications that Manaus is one of the major
_ centers for the distribution of cocaine to the United States and, posaibly,
Europe. This is the "Brazilian Connection," the story of which is only
beginning to be known.
In this picture, the impact of the arrest of a notorious Rio trafficker,
Renato de Sousa Santos, or "Tonelada," is substantially reduced. This
was Tonelada's fourth arrest since 1970 for the same crime. It is sus-
pected that "Tonelada" has been placing about 15 kg af pure cocaine per
month on the Rio market.
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BRAZIL
EDUCATION PROGRAM ON DRUG-RELATED ILLS TO BE INSTITUTED
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 9 Sep 80 p 12
[Text] Feeling that the "problem of drug use and traffic in the schools
exists and is obviously growing," Arnaldo Niskier, secretary of state
for education, announced yesterday that starting in 1981 all public primary
and secondary schools in the state, in regular and supplemental areas of
instruction, will develop education programs on the evils of drugs.
Niskier said: "A broad teacher-training program, primarily for science
teachers, is needed in the various municipios of the state, in order to ~
achieve consistency in educational action for the prevention of dr~:d use."
The secretary noted the seminar conducted last May in the UER; [State
University of Rio de Janeiro], regarding the Education Program in Pre-
vention of Drug Use for primary and secondary students. Teachers and
specialists offered various suggestions which will be put into practice
~ in the next school year.
In the campaign against drugs, the secretary of education intends to make
use of educational leaders, psychologists, clergymen, representatives of
national groups and teachers in the sciences, aocial studies and oth~r
disciplines.
Among the suggestions that were presented in the conference and should be
applied, Nickier noted the follawing: to give special emphasis to human
resources training; to train a teaching nucleus aimed at the creation of
a positive school environment, as an esaential condiCion in the effective-
ness program to be developed in drug-use prevention; to offer programs to
the young people to eliminate dangerous idleness and provide them with
active recreation; anc~ to bring the drug problem to the attention of
administrative officials at a11 levels and to the community in general.
At the seminar it was also suggeated that the schools avoid, insofar as
possible, the climate of anxiety created by the evaluation of student
performance, which also fosters recourse to drugs. Another preventive
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measure noted was the elimination of drug traffic in school neighborhoods.
In addition te these measures, Secretary Niskier said that information
on drug prevention and on the evils of drugs should be made available
� to students and parents.
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COLOMBIA
GUAJIRA 'DRUG WAR,' ARMY'S ROLE DESCRIBID
Bogota EL TIII~O in Spanish 13 Aug 80 p 8-A
[Article by special correspondent German Manga: "In the Sierra Nevada,
the War of the $11G Billion")
- [Text] Riohacha, 11 Aug--The first emotion one has after traveling through
the foothills of the Sierra Nevada from Cesar to ~uajira is the feeling
that for a long time the activities and operations of the Mafia have been
no secret to anyone.
Neither is the identity of the Mafia members a secret.
A taxi driver in Barranquilla yesterday offered to make a tour of the
places where the mansions of the leaders of the drug trafficking trade are
located and to provide full infonnation about the life of each one--when
he started, with whom he is connected, what legal businesses he has, and
even an estimate of his assets--for only $500, while a secondary school
teacher stated with alarm that the children spend a large part of their
recreation time telling stories about the exploits of the mafiosi and
their crimes with a profusion of details, as if they were talking about
scenes from the movies.
These days thousands of peasants frrnn all parts of the country are coming
to the mountains to work in gathering this year's marihuana harvest.
_ They will earn daily wages of about 1,500 pesos, and the demand for labor
is great, because at this time it is officially known that there are 50,000
hectares planted with marihuana.
If you want to see them, you can go to the following places: In Guajira
to the farm bordered on the north by the Rancheris River and on the south
- by the Badillo River, and to the farm bordered on the north by the town of
Conejo and on the south by Villa Nueva; in Magdalena to the farm bordered
on the north by the Frio River and on the south by the Tucurinca River,
and to another farm bordered on the north by the Aracataca River and on
the south by the Fundacion River. Finally, in Cesar you will have to go
to a farm located between Las Vegas and a place calYed E1 Libano.
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Complex and modern machinery is set up to press and pack the weed there.
The marihuana will go out in bundles by diffarent means of transportatxoii--
depending on the location of each farm--to the major roads. Through the
more remote or complicated paths, the loads will be carried on the shoul-
dere of more than 500 Arhuaco Indiana to intermediate paths on which the
marihuana will be tranaported in campers to places where large trucks
with a capacity of more than 10 tona can travel,in which vehicles the
marihuana will finally be carried to airports or shipping locations.
There are more than 200 secret runways in Atlantico, Cesar and Magdalena,
with the biggest number in Guajira, where there are natural landing str ips. _
Throughout tha peninsular area, to the north of Manaure, there are vast
_ extensions of flat and solid land, where without naving to dig up a single
centimeter or to carry out any technical operation, a jumbo or super-
sonic plane could land comfortably.
For this reason, the Indians there, who previously could tell the make and
model uf the contraband trucks--without seeing them--from the noise of
the motor, do the same with several types of planes by the noise of their ~
motors. ~
This year it is expected that most of the marihuana will be exported from :
these landing strips, although a significant volume will go out by sea f rom
the following ports: Galerazamba, Santa Veronica and Puerto Colombia in
the Atlantic; Peublo ~,'iejo, Papare and Santa Marts in Magdalena; Palomino,
bibulla, Camarones, Riohacha and Manaure in Guajira.
To make the trip from the farms to the shipping ports, the mafiosi will _
detail groups of inercenaries ordered to ride in high-speed automobiles at
the head of the caravans. -
Each one of these leaders is a"fly." Through modern radio equipment the
"fly" communicates with a rural and urban network of informers that the
Mafia has in order to obtain exact information about troop movements, the _
location of military reserves, open roads and other matters.
The "fly" is also in charge of "f ixing" with money any legal obstacle that
may develop, of establishing communication with the planes or ships that _
will receive the merchandise, and in ports such as Santa Marta or Riohacha,
of contracting rowers who will carry the cargo in canoes to the boats on
the high seas.
The Role of the Army
Dozens of army officers, commanding squads of 10 to 20 men, pursue the
drug traffickers in modern and high-speed cars through the drug routes in
search of shipments.
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Many times they stumble upon the "flies," but they ignore them and deliber-
ately let them pass in order to appear at the time the shipment is made.
Two weeks ago, in northern Guajira, the Indian Manuel Epinayu was awakened
from the hammock into wh ich a few hours earlier he ha3 fallen exhausted
from drunkenness with whisky by a roar that he believed was the end of the
world.
When, after several minutes of panic, he ~ould finally open his eyes, he
felt himself alone in the middle of the farm, which seemed too large with
_ its nine empty hammocks.
And when this threatening and terrible noise that seemed to come from the
bowels of the earth stopped, Epinayu went out into the desert and pronounced
the same words that his wife and relatives had said almost in unison min-
utes earlier: "It has to be the biggest plane in existence."
- They did not have time to comment about it, because suddenly they were
all lying on the ground in the midst of the crossfire of machineguns and
pistols.
Afterwards an army officer came to ask them for coffee for himself and his
men. Like robots, believing that they had awakened on a day when they
were not supposed to be alive, the Ep inayu family lit the fira and started
, their task, which would go on �:hroughout the day, of boiling water, making
- coffee and serving it to the dozens of visitors who arrived unti~. night-
fall.
In front o.f a miserable hut, an affair surrounded by cactus and covered
with a primitive roof of dry shrubs, there was a spectacle that caused
the soldiers to laugh and aroused the curiosity of the Indians from the
outskirts: a Super Constellation had landed which was the laYgest plane
the army had captured up to that momeiit in its fight against drug traf-
f icking.
That day brought to a close a pursuit lasting more than 50 hours 'hrough
rural roads that enabled a patrol of the Second Brigade to capture 2 North
American pilots and 50 ruff ians who were trying to load part of a fan-
' tastic cargo of 60 tons of marihuana into the plane. And this system,
which seems to have more the quality of a game among adults at cat and
mouse than a war between the Mafia ~nd the army, has allowed the brigade
to make--in only 1 year--one of the b iggest seizures to date of arms,
vehicles and merchandise.
More than 100 Billion a Year
In Barranquilla, in the middle of an elegant off ice with wood veneered
walls and carpeted in the best European taste, there is a stand on which
a map of northern Colo:nbia is attached with little tacks.
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On the map there appear, enclosed by green circles, the areas where 50,000
_ hectares of marihuana are f ound, with little red airplanes showing the loca-
tion of the secret landing strips and little green boats indicating the
ports of shipment for the plant.
A man with heavy �ace and hands, wearing his impecczble uniform of a gen-
eral of the republic, points out and gives information on the details
about the marihuana.
He is Carlos Guillermo Narvaez Casallas, commander of the Second Brigade,
the off icer who designed a plan that made it posaible to seize from the
drug traff ickers during the last year more than 11Q billion pesos in mer-
chandise and 4 billion in veh icles and arms, but who, probably, will never
be able t~ put an end to the Mafia.
When the people in the street accuse army officers of being sold out to
the drug traf�ickers, and when in their poor and garbled Spanish the
Guajiro Indians say that the soldiers allow the mnfiosi to operate, the
commander and several officers of the Second Brigade, seated around a
sntall table like a group of inen ready to play cards, afffrm that they know
everything about the Maf ia and that they are working against it with the ;
utmost precision and effectiveness. i
They take questions calmly, as if letting you know that they are used ~
to hearing this kind of accusation every daq: If you know where they are,
- why do you not invade the farms planted with marihuana? If you know who _
they are, why are not the capos imprisoned? Why are [here so many drug
traff ickers who go in and out of jail? Why do the people from the most -
remote town in Cesar to the northernmost town in Guajira express little
f~ith in the army's work in the fight against the Maf ia?
The answers in all cases lead to the same conclusion: the business of
drug trafficking is so cleverly set up that the official war against it is
like that of a child who is not bl~ndf olded and knows exactly where ~he
pinata is, but only has a sof t stick to break it.
- What we can say is that the Second Brigade has limited its field of action
against drug trafficking to following the caravans that carry the mer- -
chandise, and seizing the drug and the persons involved in the operation.
Thus, in a year they achieved the historic seizure of more than 110 billion. -
They conf iscated and destroyed 36,300 tons of marihuana, valued at approxi-
mately 109 billion pesos--almost t:ie amount of the budget--13 million _
Mandrax, LSD and Roret pills worth about 50 million pesos, 42 kg of cocaine
worth about 50 million pesos and 53 earthenware bottles of hashiah worth
about 160 million pesos.
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As for airplanes--from single-engine planes to the Super Constella~ion-- _
110 were seized and transferred to the Air Force in good condition and
2 in damaged condition. They are valued at approximately 1.4 b illion
~ pesos.
Regarding operations carried out in the seaports mentioned above, 87
boats were seized--from canoes to boats more than 120 meters long--worth
about 1 billion pesos. In all operations they expropriated 307 trucks, -
115 small trucks, 146 campers, 28 automobiles, 7 dump trucks and 7 tank
car~, valued at about 600 million pesos.
As a result of these operations, 2,140 Colomb ians and 261 foreigners were
arrested.
All of them were involved in drug traff icking, but very few had power.
inside the Mafia.
- The Second Bri~~~1e has established that the drug traffickers are organ-
ized according to a clever system of distributjon or division.
There is a primary hierar~hy of "capos of capos," each of whom has several
"capos" at his service. The latter supervise a network of "negotiators,"
who in turn manage the "intermediaries." This is a hierarchy of command
that seeks to confuse the origin of an order as a guarantee of invulner-
ability for the "capos of capos."
In practice it i.s the "intermedi_aries" who manage the business with the
"buyers and sellers" and who become tt:e "b igshots" who bui.ld enormous and
eccentric mansions in the towns and ci.ties of the coast and who pay the
- valley musicians considerable sums to be mentioned in their songs. The
= buyers and sellers are responsible fox the orders originating in the upper
hierarchies, and they make agreements with farmers and laborers. But in
no way do they represent the power of the Maf ia.
The Mafia has carried to absurdity the fact that t'zeLe is always proof for
arresting and prosecuting peasants, pilots, sellers ancibuyers of marihua-
na, but a testimony or a lawsuit is never obtained that is useful for
prosecuting an "important" figure in the Mafia. In the rare instances when
there is success in hitting on a member of the upper hierarchi~=s, his
= superiors cannot be traced by foltowing him, not only because death is the
price of denunciation, but becaiise very often these members themselv~s do
not know for whom they are working.
Various investigat ions have made it possible to f irmly establish who is
who in the Mafia, but there is no w~y to arrest ti7e "capos," because
although they manage the business, t:~ey have no title to or direct rela-
tion with ownership of the planea, boats, vehicles or farms.
It is believed that several of. the 50,Q00 hectares seeded with marihuana
are titled in the name of persons whom nobody l:nows or has seen in the
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region and who may be persons who died from natural causes in remote regions
of the mountains such as Narino or Cauca and whose identification cards,
according to testimony from the Indians, were previously bought cheaply.
Last year the arnry put into effect a plan consisting of breaking into the
homes of the "capos" with a view to prosecuring them, not for drug traf-
ficking but for weapons possession.
0�f the record a brigade o�f icer acknowledged that this method did not
bring good results, and he cited as an example to confirm his opinion,
the case of a capo of capos in Barranquilla who had machineguns, rifles
and Magnum pistols in his home, but who throiigh luck left his house min-
. utes before the break-in.
On the basis of the conf iscated items brigade members arrested him at the
height of a bi.g party with whiskey and accordions, but in less than a
~ month he was freed because his lawyers had proved with indisputable legal
appeals that he was a good man.
This was an upsetting developuient, since in their testimony the neighbors
aff irmed that a woman who was arrested during tYee break-in and in whose ~
- name the house was registered was the capo's wife. The women questioned i
, provided exact informstion about the appearance, the social cilstoms and I
even the routine schedule of the "capo of capos." ~
However, it turned out that the woman was his mistress, which enabled
the lawyers to snow with docu~?ents that not only did she not have any
relationship to the arrested capo but that he did not know her, just as
~le did not have anytlting to do wlth the house or therefore with the
weapon.s. Moreover, the lawyers reinforced their testimony with several
certif icates indicating that their client was a good man. The certifi-
cates were sent to the brigade commander by several members of parliament
from the coast.
- Theref ore, this year the brigade is enlisting its people to go out to the
roads, the ports and the secret runways to confiscate the packed marihuana,
since it makes no sense to remove it in the countryside. There would be
the problem of gathering it or looking for a technique of destroying the
marihuana without ruining *_he land and the planes, boats, vehicles and
arms that will be used in the service of the nat~nn. Meanwhile the jails
remain empty of mafiosi because it is futile to imprison pilots who are
freed in a few hours with lawful funds. And there is a social problem
involved in the ~xecution of peasants and poor people who live, as a last
resort, by piying their hoe iri fields seeded with marihuana, and who press,
transport or ship the plant, but who are nobody inside the Mafia.
- The real heads of the "bands" are known, and their names travel by word of
mouth from Cesar to Guajira. But they are untouchable....
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COLOMBIA
~ OFFICIAL, POLICE FIRID OVER TRAFFICRERS' ESCAPE
Bogota EL TIII~O in Spanish 20 Aug 80 p 8-A
[Article by Narciso Castro Y.]
[TextJ Cartagena, 19 Aug--the former director of the regional prison in
San Diego and three national policemen of the Bolivar division have been
found responsibile by a milf.tary court for the escape of two North
American drug traffickers.
The punishment for the persons involved sti11 has not been determined,
and is being studied by the preaiding officer of the court martial Lt Col
Guillermo Carreno Cardenas.
The events that led to the military trial took place at the end of last
~ year, wr~en polic~men Joaquin Eduardo Reyes, Agustin Sierra Meaa Isidro
Rios and Oscar Me3ia Gamboa were on duty at the prison.
The investigation established that Sergeant Leoncio Crisson Hernandez
was responsible for the escape and had authorized inmates Tarry Warge
and Steve Connol to be taken from their cells so they ~ould make a long
distance call from Telecom.
Instead of going to Telecom, the Nort~ Americans and the policemen entrusted
with guarding them went to a club known as "el nido de oro" [the gold nest]
and there, after consuming liquor, the drug traffickers disappeared.
The court marti2.1 included Lt Col Guillermo Carreno, presiding officer;
Capt Jose Manue:l Diaz, public prosecutor; Ma3 Carlos Alberto Berney,
legal adviser; and members Pablo Emilio Moratto, Lino Hernandez and Pedro
Onofre Ramirez.
The prison director, Sgt Leonicio Crisson, and policemen Joaquin Eduardo
Reyes, Agustin Sierra Meza and Isidro Rios were convicted.
Acting as lawyers for the accused were Enrique Orr_iz Pineres, Jose Velasquez
Colina, Rafael Salazar and Rafael Lopez Posso, but only Oscar Mejia Gamboa,
the client of attorney Ortiz, was acquitted.
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COLOMBIA
JUDGE ARRESTED WI'I'H COCAINE VALUID AT 200 MILLION PESOS ~
. Judge, Others Arrested
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 13 Aug 80 p 7-A '
[Article by Alvaro Caicedo]
[Text] Cali, 12 Aug--The ninth labor court judge of the circuit, Guido
Alfredo Miller Gomez, was dezained today at his home, where 150 kg of
cocaine valued at 200 million pesos were discovered.
In addition to Miller, the other persons taken into custody were: his wife, i
Bertha; the maid, Amanda Caicedo; Nelson Mendoza; and Alexander Miller,
a close relative of the judge.
The arrests were made 3t No 4C�-30 Third Street in the Santa Isabel dis-
trict in southern Cali.
The narcotics, vats with liquids, paste and components for processing the
alkaloid were found on the second floor of the two-story house.
Information obtained from informed sources suggests that the arrests are
the result of about 1 month's purauit through various locations. How-
- ever, details in this regard were not provided.
In a conversation with EL TIEMPO, the regional attorney, Ernesto Herrera,
stated that he sent a cammunique to the Cali superior court so that it
might order the provisional suspension of Miller Gomez to settle his legal
status.
- The Colombian Attiorney General's Office has taken the appropriate steps
before the National Council of the Judiciary.
Laboratory in Boyaca
- A modern laboratory for processing cocaine was discovered "this afternoon
by the authorities in the town of Umbita, southeast of Boyaca. The
alkaloid ia priced at 20 million pesos.
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The laboratory was operating a few blocks from the Umbita police station.
~ Three persons were arrested.
Judge Suspended by Court
Bogota EL TIEI~O in Spanish 19 Aug 80 p 19-A
[Text] The Higher ~ouncil of the Judiciary wi11 announce its disciplinary
decisi4n in the next fews days concerning ~udge Guido Alfredo Miller Go~?ez,
in whose Cali home were found a laboratory for x~efining cocaine and 150
kg of the alkaloid.
Miller Gomez is under arrest, fo~ which reason the Superior Court of that
judicial district iimnediately F,roceeded to snspend him from exercising
his duties as ninth labor court ~udge of the Cali circuit.
In the Higher Cuuncil of the Jud.iciary, the case fell to magistrate Rafael
Poveda Alfanso, who came to Cali to carry out the disciplinary investiga-
- tion and to hear Miller Gomez' defense. Magistrate Poveda was accompanied
on his trip by the councii's ~~r~sulting attorney, Rodolfo Garcia Ordonez.
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COLOMBIA
FIRED JUDGE IMPLICATED IN COCAINE TRAFFIC
Rogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 19 Sep 80 Sec A p 17
[Text] In a writ issued yesterday, ~he Supetior Council of thE Judicature
precipitously dismissed the eighth labor ~udge of the Cali Circuit Court,
Guido Alfredo Miller Gomez, who was arrested about a.month ago when a total
of 150 kilograms of cocaine was discovered in his residence.
The judgment on the dismissal of the Va11e del Cauca official was made by
the chairman of the Council, Dr Rafael Poveda Alfonso, who announced the i
writ yesterday and ordered the secretary of the Disciplinary Council of the I
Higher Courtr Ignacio Rene Leon, to notify the accused ~udge. ;
As a result of the verdict of the Superior Council of the Judicature, Attor-
ney Miller Gomez (who is being held in the Vil.lanueva jail in the city of
Cali) is permanently dismissed from the position of ~udge of the republic,
and therefore disquali:fied for holding public office.
Thus far this year, six attorneys and four ~udges have been dismissed, in
the course of the purging effort being carried out by the 5uperior Council
of the Judicature, whiclz was created in accordance with the reform of the
justice system and approned under the present administration.
Other Investigations
Through a bulletin issued yesterday by the Secretariat of Information and
Press of the Presidency of the Republic, it h�as reporLed that, at the
present time, investigations are.under way of n~arly 70(~ ?awyers in the
country, including 300 wkio have the statvs of magistrates.
It was also learned that the writ issued against former 3udge Guid~ Alfredo
Miller Gomez was written in ~8 pages andconCains a d~tailed analysis of the
case, and of the grounds for the crime which comprised the legal basis for
the dismissal of the official. Since the time of his arrest, Miller Gomez
has been suspended on a precautionary basis, while the Higher Court made the
pertinent investigatioii, which ended yesterday with the immediate dismissal
from the rank of administrator of ~ustice.
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COLOMBIA
COURT MARTIAL FOR MILITARY TRAP~FICKERS TO BEGIN
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 20 Sep 80 Sec A p 13
[Text] Th~ lieutenant and three petty officers from the Army who were captur-
ed while attempting to take from the Eldorado International Airport an indi-
vidual who was carrying 20 kilograms of cocaine in his luggage, by pretend-
ing to have a warrant for his arrest, were dismissed permanently from active
service snd, within about 2 weeks, will be summoned to a verbal court martial
to answer for their crime.
- The Accused
ThP f~~ur members of the military separated from the.Arnry on the basis of a
verdi~:t handed down by the disciplinary court, presided over by Col Jorge
Enriqi~e Casilimas Castaneda, are Lt Juan Vicente Caldas Trujillo, Sgt Ma~
Ale~r,~ndro Castillo Villamarin and Vice-First Sgts Alfredo Melo Montano and
Arce$io Joven Cuellar, who are now under an arrest warrant issued by judge
106 of military penal proceedings, Dr David Trujillo Diaz.
As for the individual whom the military men attempted to take from the air-
port together with the luggage in which he was carr}ri,ng the cocaine fr~~m
- Bolivia, Carlos Arturo Martinez Perez, he was placed at the disposal ~f the
ninth judge of criminal proceedings, Dr Humberto Huertas Lopez, who has also
issued the pertinent warrant for his ar.rest for drug trafficking, so that
" he may be tried by the common courts.
The Summons
The summons of ttie court martial to try the accused lieutenant and sergeants
will be issued by the Army commander, Gen Fernando Land3zabal.Reyes, who
was appointed ~udge of'the first i~ns:tanae by the eommander.of Military Forces,
Gen Jose Gonzalo Forero DeZgadillo, because of the fact that the military
men in question belonged to different sections of the l~rmy, and hence it
was necessary for the commander thereof to serve in that capacity.
According to a report published yesterday by EL VESPERTINO, Colonel (ret)
; and former magistrate of the Military Court, Hildebrando Galvis Galvis,
~ Col (ret) Genero Nungo Mendez, former judge of military penal proceedings
Hernando Reyes Santos and Dr Gloria Virginia Avellaneda will act in the
defense of the accused.
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COLOMBIA
TRAFFICKERS, COCAINE SEIZED BY DAS AGENTS
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 19 Sep 80 Sec A p 17
[Text] A total of 16,723 grams of cocaine paste was confiscated yesterday by _
secret agents attached to the Administrative Department of Security (DAS),
after an o~eration in which two drug traffickers were captured.
The seizure of the drugs took place inside a residence bearing No 9-27, on
Highway 56 in Bogota, according to a report from the Publicity and Press i
Department of the secret agency. ~
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The individuals captured were Jose Jaime. Murillo Pardo and Javier Hernando ~
Agudelo Ortiz, who have records for drug trafficking and.were members of ~
a well organized ring operating on both the national and international
, level.
It was also learned that, together with the dr.ugs, weapons for the exclusive ,
use of the military forces were seized, including a.45-caliber Ingraham sub- ~
_ machine gun with ammunition and a silencer, a 20-caliber shotgun, a Willys
camper with license~.rlantes KD-6394 and a large amount of documentation
proving that the economic ac.tivity of the eriminal organization in various
banks in the city involves fabulous sums.
The DAS stated that the other members of the w~ll organized ring, who are
lo~ated both in the country and abroad, have been fully indentifed, ar.id that
thEir capture is imminent.
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COLOMBIA
PLANE, TRAFFICKERS, LABORATORY SEIZED IN EL VALLE
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 26 Aug 80 p 13-A
[Article by Jorge E. OrozcoJ
[Text] Armenia, 25 Aug--In Zarzal, a municipality in Norte del Valle,
army troops have captured 18 drug traffickers and have seized weapons,
a modern drug processing laboratory and an executive airplane coming from
Bolivia.
The authorities reported that the light plane was preparing to offload a
shipment of cocaine in that locality for processing; however, they did not
� confirm whether or not the drug had been found. Weapons and a Piper air-
plane were discovered on the La Olivensa and Las La.~as farms, which are
owne.d by Antonio Correa, a man alleged to be one of the biggest drug
traffickers in Colombia.
The following persons were arrested during this operation: Orlando Ramirez
Valencia; Ruben Dario Salazar Velasquez; AntoniQ Ospina Osorio; Ivan
Ramirez Valencia, an attorney from Pereira; Carlos Augusto Ramirez Salazar;
Francisco Gutierrez Mejia; Guillermo Acevedo Restrepo; Hector Alonso Reyes;
Jose Giraldo Villegas; Luis Eduardo Libreros (administrator of the Las La~as
farm); Hernan Ramos Navarro; Gregorio Oscar Ledesma; Miguel Diaz Crespo;
Daniel Montano Echavarriaga (a native of La Tebaida, Quindio); Marino Toro
Betancourt; Calos [as published] Arturo Marulanda; and Ariel Ramirez
_ Valencia.
The U.S. DC-6
In another development, Silvio Ceballos, the goveruor of Quindio, took
charge of the investigation into the violation of the Security Law by the
crew of a Douglas DC-6 cargo plane with U.S. registration which made an
emergency landing on the runway of the E1 Eden airport, in the capital of
Quindio.
The crew was made up of a retired ma~or from the Colombian Air Force,
Jorge Roa Santos, a native of Bogota, age 41; and a nationalized Colombian
from Canada, Carlos Figueroa, age 39. The authorities stated that these
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men had departed from one of tHe islands in the Bahamas Central American
archipelago and were traveling to Villavicencio, Meta.
The crew of the above-mentioned cargo plane could receive fines ranging
- from 100,000 to S million pesos, payable to the departmental treasury,
- and their aircraft coul.d be confiscated.
Refueling Center
, A clandestine refueling center for airplanes was discovered by the army
in the vicinity of Uribia, Guaj ira, duri:lg an operation designed to
neutralize marihuan.a trafficking in this department.
Troops of the Lightning Strike Task Force found more than ten 55-gallon
drums o~ gasoline and a fire engine.
The army captured five persons who we re identified as Argemiro Francisco
Martinez, Armando Rafael Castillo, Leonidas Fernandez, Fidel Francisco
Cantillo and Nelson Rosero.
The army also seized assorted weapons and ammunition. ~
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The clandestine center, whose purpose was to resupply airplanes with fuel,
was placed under military control to prevent the arrival of additional
i aircraft.
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COLOMBIA
TRAFFICKERS' PLANE CRASHES AT SEA
. Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 22 Sep 80 Sec A p 3
[TextJ Barranquilla, 21 Sep--The control tower of the Ernesto Cortissoz
Airport here confirmed tHe fact that an airplane used for drug trafficking
crashed into the sea off the coast of La Gua~ira, and its six occupants gre
adrift on a flimsy raft.
The aircraf t, apparently with Haitian registration, was a DC-b, which was
bound for one of the many clandestine runways operating in the northern
coastal area.
The plane crashed at sea the night before last. Cap.t Ospina Navia, who has
his rad~.o equipment in the aquarium opposite Santa Marta, received the
emergency signal. It was also noted that the Barranquilla Yacht Club
received the report of an airplane whose crew saw the crash of the Haitian
DC-6 .
According to an account from a ham.'.ra3io operator in Atlantico, the aircraft
was about te land on a clandestine runway in La Gua~ira, but it apparently
experienced failure and, before crashing into the sea, it man.aged to send
a message which was picked up.by several radio hamis.
A ham radio operator with the last name Donado called the control tower and
made his report.
He also noted that one ~i ~he crew members had dared to admit to him that,
"this is not a commercial plan~~ with passengers; it is a private plane
without a flight waybill, which w3s going to land on Gua~ira territory."
In the control tower they said that no plane of that type had a waybill,
adding that, "during the past S daps, we have not had any lost plane, nor
has any other country asked us about what occurred to any aircraft."
Ttzus, it was full_y confirmed that the DC-6 was a"pirate," and that it car-
ried only its crew, concerning whose fate nothing is known as yet.
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COLOMBIA
COCAINE LABORATORY SEIZID, THREE ARRESTED
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 20 Aug 80 p 8-A
[Article by Alvaro Caicedo]
_ [TextJ Cali, 19 Aug--A sn~all laboratory and 1,750 grams of cocaine were
confiscated here today from 3 persons who were arrested by officials of
the Government Attorney's Office in a house in the exclusive E1 Jardin
section south of the city.
The investigators seized acetone, ether, ammoniac, a spotlight with a 250-
watt bulb, 2 spoons to measure the narcotic, a scale, waxed paper, plas-
tics and a 9 mm Czechoslovak pistol. i
Those arrested were Harvey Le~a, 41; Carlos Guillermo Garces Castro, who '
said he was the janitor of the house; and a womsn who said her name was
Leda Pazmin de Cerezo. However, an identity card was found on her in the
name of Mariluz Castillo Perez and a passport in the name of Leida Patino
- Jaramillo.
The arrests were made by the same officers who recently seized the ninth
~ judge, Guido Alfredo Miller, who was in possession of a valuable cargo of
cocaine.
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COLOMBIA
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKERS CAUGHT--Lightning Strike Cavalry Group delivered a heavy �
blow to drug trafficking rings yesterday in the town of Hato Neuvo,
Gua~ira, with the capture of four dangerous sub~ects, including one Cuban,
and the seizure of 1,600 kg of marihuana. The captures took place following
an" intensive operation by the army pursuant to the "lightning" plan. The
ring was made up of Luis Pino, a native of Cuba and chief of the criminals;
Jacinto Nicolas 03eda; Alvaro H. Blandon Blandon; and Luis Alberto Murcia
Hernandez. The drug traffickers were traveling in two ~.ahicles bearing
Venezuelan license plates: one was a Toyota camper w3th plate number
AA-980 and the other was a Ford-350 pickup truck with plate number PA-214.
The troops took from them a large number of w~eapons and several clips for
pistols and for M-30 rifles. During the operation conducted by military
authorities in the fight against drug traffickers, two men were captured
who last month had killed an arury noncommissioned officer. Jose Vicente
Zarate and Manuel S. Puche Aguirre were seized by pereonnel of the
Lightning Strike Group in a place called Las Casitas, in the Aato Neuvo
district. Both are charged with the murder of army Corporal Luis Montoya
Idarraga. [Text] [Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 26 Aug 80 p 13-A] 8143
TRAFFICKERS IN RIOHACHA BREAKOUT--Two dangerous American drug traffickers
were rescued from the Riohacha ~ail early yesterday morning by a group of
their confederates who attacked the prison and subdued the guards with
rifles. The persons released; who had been in prison since last June on
charges of drug trafficking and illegal entry into the country, are Martin
Smibren Snipes and Robert H. Doll. Four men armed with machineguns
traveling in late-model automobiles arrived at the Riohacha ~ail at 0330 _
hours yesterday morning and, after having subdued the guards, went through '
the 3ai1 until ~hey found the two Americans. They then disappeared.
- Statements made afterward by the guards made it possible to establish
that the four assailants we~e dreased in National Police uniforms. [Text]
~ [Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 26 Aug 80 p 13-A] 8143
LARGE MARIHUANA PLANTATIONS--Santa Marta, 18 Aug--At least 6,000 hectares
of marihuana were discovered by the army during patrols in the foothi113
of the Sierra Nevada and the northern part of this department. This
information was confirmed by sources linked w.Cth the Cordoba Battalion of -
Santa ~Marta. Uniformed and intelligence groups belonging to the Second
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Brigade and supported by units of the Narino, Barranquilla, Cartagena,
Riohacha, Cordoba and Santa Mart~. bat*..alions recently entered the rugged
, regions of the Sierra Nevada where they discovered vast fields of "blond" -
marihuana, of the highest quality, which were ready for harvesting.
Veritable "seas of marihuana" were discovered in the former banana region,
particularly in ttie Riofrio area, one of the most fertile sectors of this
Magdalena farming region. Military sources estimate that in th~ last 15
days 6,000 to 10,000 hectares of this drug have been discovered in harveat-
ready condition, and the marihuana growers are getting ready to harvest
it, wi_~h lucrative offers from.buyers in the t3nited States. According to
estimates, the army has destroyed marihuana fields worth 1 billion pesos~.
[Text] [Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 19 Aug 80 p 6-C] 8143
COf'AINE LABORATORY--Barranquilla, 22 Aug--In a luxury mansion whose owners,
accordi.ig to police t~eadquarters, are alleged to have been slain by rings
of drug traffickers operating in Mfami, a small laboratory for the processing
of cocaine has been discovered, along with 400 grams of the alkaloid and
other "working" equipment. Lt Dagoberto Castillo, information chief of
the Atlantico Police Department, said that the operation was not specifically
looking for a clandestine laboratory but rather for a motorbike with which
a crime had been committed. The police received a report that the motorbike
was at a residence located at No 42-44 79th Street. When the agents arrived ;
at this address, they found a dirty and abandoned house filled with cobwebs. i
They inspected the entire house and found photographic filPS covering air- ~
ports and clandestine landing strips, flight maps, river navigation charts,
equipment and a laboratory for the processing of cocaine. The motorbike
which they were seeking and other clues led them to the conclusion that
the mansion was the property of Dotningo Cesar Concilia Viloira. According
to the police source, "This ma.n and several of his colleagues were shot to
death several weeks ago in Miami where he had traveled to collect certain
sums of money connected with drug trafficking." The same source said that
the house had been abandoned for 6 months. [Text] [Bogota EL TIEMPO in
Spanish 23 Aug 80 p 7-B] 8143
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PERU
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BRIEFS
_ CUCAIN~ TRAFFICKING--Lima, 1 Oct (AFP)--The Peruvian police have broken
up a ring of drug traffickers who found a way to 13.quefy cocaine in wine
to ship it abroad. The police have arrested Argentine citizen Juan Jose
de La Torre Romero and Peru~ian singer Alicia Lizarraga. The traffickers
shipped the cocaine to Mexico and the United States and used a centri-
fugal process to separate the cocaine. They have been operating for ~
= 3 years. [PY021755 Paris AFP in Spanish 2237 GMT 1 Oct 80 PY]
DEMAND TO GROW COCA--Lima, 13 Oct (AFP)--Peasante of the Convencion and
Lares valieys in Cusco Department, southeas tern Peru, today announced
- that they began a 72-hour strike this morning demanding com~lete
freedom to grow and sell coca. In a press confexence given in Lima
this morning, leaders of the peasant federationa of the two valleys
said that they are demanding the annulment of laws which f~rbid them
to grow this plant from which cocaine is made. They indicated that -
they request a naw ].aw, different from the ene which forbide cocaine
traffic, to regulate the production, sale and traditional consumption
_ of the coca leaf, and that the government convene an international
congress on coca. ~tao years ago , the recent military regime decided
i to eli_minat~ coca plantations and replace them with other crops in
an attempt to fight the drug traffickers. However, several peasant
and culturai organizations have been request~.ng a review of that
law, since coca chewing is a habit of the Indian population, part of
whom make a living from coca growing. [Text] [PY151756 Paris AFp -
in Spanish 1349 GMT 13 Oct 80]
~ DRUG ARRESTS--Lima, 10 Oct (AFP)--The Peruvian Investigations Police (PIP)
last Thursday broke an international drug trafficking ring and se~zed
250 kg of cocaine base worth $3.33 million, During a raid carried out
in the outskirts of Lima, eight Peruvian citizens and Colombian citizens
- 36-year-old Hernando Arreyano Jimenez, 33-year-old Jorge Catano Montenegro,
39-year-old Edgard Flores Jaramillo and 45-year-old Favio Arango Rios _
were arrested. [PY161210 Paris AFP in Spanish 0545 GMT 11 Oct 80 PY]
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= TURKS CAICOS
BRIEFS
TRAFFICKEKS ESCAPE PRISON--Grand Turks, Turks and Caicos, Saturday,
(CANA)--Two foreigners ~ailed two months ago for being in possession
of a large haul of cocaine ha~~e escaped from jail, fl prison spokesman
said. The spokesman said that the men escaped twc~ weeks ago after
serving two months of the three year jdi~ term. Sheldon Archer of
Britain and Humberto Alverez of Colombia w~re fined US $899,240 which
tre;~ did not pay as an alternative to the ,jail term for,possession 144 -
pounds of cocaine and 49 pounds of inethaqualone. Meanwhile, police
reinforced by U..S. specialists, have mounted a massive anti-drug traf-
fickin~3 campaign here. General Aviation is said by police sources to
be pla.ced under microscopie ~urv~illance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency. British Government offic3als here (the island is still a colony)
have reported some success in the campaign and said illegal drug traffic
is moving away fro~m the eight-island cluster. [Text] [Bridgetown
SUNDAY ADVOCATE-NEWS in English 28 Sep 80 p 3]
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AFGHANISTAN
BRIEFS
OFFICIAL ATTENDS VIENNA MEETING--Kabul, Oct. 6(Bakhtar).--Head of the
Criminal Department of the 1~Iinistry of Internal Affairs left for Vienna,
at the head of a delegatior. yesterday, to attend the international anti-
smuggling meeting. The meeting which will be held soon will discues is-
sues relating to preventing of smuggling of narcotics. [Text] [Kabul
KABUL NEW TIMES in English 6 Oct 80 p 4]
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IRAN
RESULTS OF ANTI-NARC01'IC EFFORTS REVIEWED I
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Interview with Khalkhali
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 10 Sep 80 p 5
[Text] The addicts of Tehran's locales have g~ne into seclusion. Now
one can walk thr~ugh Rahpeyma, .Tamshid and Qavam-Daftar streets and
their alleys. In the ncoks and crannies of Mulavi and Darvazeh streets .
few vestiges are visible of convt:lsive bodies and nodding heads. They
' no lon~er constantly whisper in the ears of passErs-by: "We've got great
- stuff here," "I'll give you a golden pipe," "We have Valium tens, Soprax,
Duridan, cheap." -
But still scmetimes in the alleys and street~, where until sev=ral months
ago hundreds of ~ddicts gathered together, you see trembling bodies
- st~:ggering along, their eyes searching nervously in every direction, ~
hoping to find the smuggler they know. But they never stop, for the fear
of being caught causes them ~o ga~her their remaining strength and aoli- ~
tarily go f rom street to alley, to alleys where until several months
ago their buddies had freely sat at the edge of filthy streams and given
their bodies over to a heroin high. -
_ But what has happened to them? Have they returned to normal life? Are -
these the dregs of hundreds of thousands of addicts? Or have they found
new refuges, still delivering their lives over to the intoxication of
~ and the cr.aving for narcotics? Where have the small smuggl.ers gone who
night and day were at the sides of the addicte, loitering in the districts?
What has been the fate of the crusade again.st amuggling and the cure of
- addi.cts? Have narcotics been extir~ated from Iran or do we still have
' a long road in .'.'ront of us? Have the merchF.nts of death found a new
remedy?
All these and hundreds of other questions con~inced us to contact those
directly cc+ncerned with the crusade ..gainst narcotics and the cure of -
, addicts, and furthermore to go to the areas tnat were the gathering -
places for addicts and see urhat the situation was now after sever~l
months ef the crusade.
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All these and hundreds o_E other questions convinced us to contact those
directly concerned with the crusade against narcotics and the cure of
addicts, and furthermore to go to the areas that were the gathering
places for addicts and see what the situation was now after several _
montha of the crusade.
From the addicts' point of view, the situation is truly terrible. To
quote one of them: "I've fallen on hard time~, five or six months ago
we got along with 50 tumans. But now we can't with 500 tumans. Recently
i*. has gotten so that we don't know what tlney give us i.n place of the
stuif, as much as we sr;aoke we still crave a iix. It's all anti-parinen
[sic) and rice flour; who now has the courage to bring the stuff? It's
- not clear where all these smugglers have gor~e."
The decrease in smuggling and smugglers of narcotics is undeniable.
- This can be easily understood by passing through the streets that were
� the meeting places for addicts and deslers of the dust of death.
The difficulty of obtaining drugs and the dang~er of arrest, alongside
_ the new possibilities for breaking the habit that the Ministry o~ Health '
has nade available, have caused a lar.ge number of addicts tc~ consider ~
breaking the habit. Particularly since for months naw there has been
no sign of coupon-purchasable opium. !
The Coordinat3ng Staff of the Anti~addiction Crusade of the Ministry of
Health has announced that in order to help this type of addict, all ad-
dicts 50 years ~r older who have not yet used government treatm~nt ser-
, vices to break their addiction can be hospitalized and treated free of -
charge.
According to Health Ministry statistics, the number of addicts on the dole
is about 170,000 persons. Dr Seyyed Hoseyn Fakhr, supervisor of the
central coordinating staff of the anti-addiction crusade, concerning them
; said: "According to the program which this staff planned, the cure of
- addicts on the dole will terminate at the end of Shahrivar [22 Sep] of
this year. Of course we did not hospitalize them. Rather fram 15 Tir
[24 July] we gave them medicine for breaking the habit based on their
dole cards." As far as other addicts were concem~d, the treatment
program closed at the end of Esfand [20 Mar], and afterwards if sameone
were an addict, he was a criminal and had to expect punishment. The
_ possibilities of inedical treatment of addicts has increased during the
last few months, such that for thoae who have decided to liberate them-
seives from the claws of demon addiction, 10 hoepitals with Y,460 beds,
two of which are set aside for women addicts, and 43 clinics with out-
patient care, are at their disposal. The fac~.lities are such that each -
addict can use them once; by stamping his identification card repeated `
use is prevented. Simultaneously with the increase in this kind of
facility and the approprj.ation of 500 million tumans for addict treatment, ~
Ho~~atoleslam Khalkhali`s special crusading group against narcoti~s and
other institutions such as the municipal police and the gendarmarie of
the Islamic Republi.c of Iran also continue the crusade against smuggiers
and those involved in the distribution of drugs. According to recently
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published statistics, from Mo~dad [23 Jul-22 Aug] of last year until
5 Shahrivar [27 Aug] of this year, nearly 390 drug smugglers have been ~
executed throughout Iran.
Conversation with Ho~~atoleslam Khalkhali
In a conversation which we had with Ho~~atolesiam Sheykh Sadeq Khalkhali,
- concerning the effects of his several month-long crusade against smugglers -
_ and addiction, he said: "Our crusade was unlimitedly relentless, decisive
and effective, such that two months ago you saw Qavam-Daftar ~d Jamshid
streets and other places full of addicts, and you observed dealers in
groups, while now you do not even see two of them. The great number of
petitions, telegrams and letters which arrive, a11 of them supporting us,
prove our success. This victoryy after that of the revolution, was the
greatest firm step that we have made in the shadow of the sublime leader
of the revolution and our decisive imam. Several days ago I congratulated
the Imam on this success, and I said that if not for you, perhaps we
- would have been the captives of these plots, d~.sorder, and the destruction
of homes and families for another hundred years. Fundsmentally the spread
of drugs and the addiction of youChs who should be working in factories
and farms but instead loiter in the alleys and become social parasites
is one of the shameful gifts of criminal imperialism and Zionism which
has been foisted on the oppressed nations. I now request *_he people
to cooperate with us as always. Of course I am grateful to the people
because they were of great assistance to us and the special crusading
_ group by pointing out big smugglere, sessions of gambling, drinking and �
heroin-smoking, and houses of corruption. But we still expect writers
and newspapers to reflect the developments of the crusade, and to go
inside the families and write mhat misery addiction has brought to these
families. People must be aware of the depth of the tragedy, must know in
what manner four month-old babies and three year-olds cannot bear to be
without heroin, haw they have been addicted."
Shaeykh Sadeq Khalkhali added: "These things must be said and written
so that the people are aware; when their culture has risen, they will
not travel in Satan's path. But I have a complaint about the Ministry
of Health, and I have always placed my complaint about Health Ministry
officials responsible for narcotics before the presid~nt. I have said
that their work is in reality obstruction. Because one cannot break the
drug habit with drugs. They give the opium addict opium and methadone
pills and such to break the habit, which are in themselves narcotics.
- And the addicts get themselves going with this stuff and also sell it to
others. They put these very same pills in their opium p;Lpes and smoke
them. We do not meddle in medical. matters but infornied physicians have
told us that this is not the way." There are disagreements about the
ways to treat addicts among those concerned with the matter. A graup
like those involved at the Ministry of Health and some medical specialists
believe that the addict must be cured with medicine until his body is
liberated from addiction; at the same time thexe must be mental treatment
so that the patient is able to adapt himself to a new life from the social
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aspect. But another group opposing tl~em believes that the addict must
be separated from normal society for a period. One of these persons is
Colonel Mansur Bakhtegan, chief of the office o� ~he anti-narcotics cru-
sade of the municipal police o:E L�he Islamic Republic of Iran. He said in
this regard: "The environmenL in which an addict breaks his habit musti 1
be a restricted environmen~, suctz as a camp or even a prison, not con-
- nected with anyplace. Of course i_f it is feasible a habit should bP broken
with medication, but if it is not feasible, then nothing should be given ~
to the addict since most addicts are capable of overcoming their habit ~
without medication. Out-patient addictis are not able to break the habit.
Meaning that an addict is nut capable of taking medicine while staying =
at home, and not stir. Experience has proved to me that even those who -
stay in private hospitals and spend thousands of tumans, take up the habit
again after release from the hospital. So they shauld be kept in a re-
stricted environment, and work given to them during the habit-bz�eaking.
If they are able, pZaces like the reconstruction cursade are good. They '
are put to work in road-building or farm~ng se that they are under control. ~
- While they are learning a trade they are under control in that environment
for a long period, so that after a number of stages they can return to
normal society. Of course Cheir personality must be respected in society;
with a work referral they can be employed so that they do not re~urn to
the former environment." !
~
But Colonel Bakhtegan considered that the most important factor in the , .
elimination af the a�fliction of a~diction. was "that there be no drugs
in the environment." Concerning how narcotics can be taken out of the
social environment, he said: "This crusac~e that has begun has been very
effective. Now due to great fear narcotics have decreased. A number of
the big smugglers were executed, a number have fled or are in hiding.
The only smugglers that are acti~~e at the present moment are border
smugglers. This is because the bo.rders are open and are not watched.
In truth surveillance is nearly zero. If we want to prevent the border
smugglers, we must at least have a fully-equipped border guard station
every five kilometers. Which we do noC have. tde must appropriate a budget
for border control so that we can obtain the necessary capability. In
' the studies which we made, 80 percent of the narcotics problem at the
present moment arises from the openness of the borders, particularly the
country's eastern borders, meaning Afghanistan and Pakistan. If we can
control the borders, the crusade against the remainircg 20 percent who
are domestic opium smugglers will not be very difficult."
"Smugglers who formerly trafficked comfortably in Iran, no longer have
the courage for this joU, and deal their goods right in the border str.ip.
At points Xike the village Dust Moha~adkhan near Zabol or the villages
around Tayabad and Mir Javeh which are all border points, non-natives
are easily recognized."
"Domestically their possibilities for activity have become very small
as an effect of the crusade of. Mr Khalkhali's officials and ours." These
words were also confirmed by Sheykh Sadeq Khalkhali. He said: "Smugglers
must know that the special crusading group against narcotics is lying in
ambush day and night, in all the streets, deserts, in alleys behind the
alleys, and on the roads. This effort has reached the point that, as
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you observe, Iranian smuggling bands have been destroyed, and we have
gathered up from the streets the addicts who were their largest market.
They no longer have customers, nor opportunity, nor the courage for
activity."
Although the street customers have decreased, have all of them broken
the habit? Or are they obtaining the necessary drugs some other way?
A doctor concerned with narcotica said in this regard: "Addicts have
reached the point that most of them have no alternative but breaking the
habit. Of course some ~i *hem have turned to narcotic pills, and in this
fashion, by spending 50 riais, they are deranged aad high for 24 hours.
But some of them sit in their houaes and do not come to the streets to
buy drugs; however, drugs are brought to their door by smugglers aad
delivered there. The rise in the level of those contacting anti~-addiction
hospitals is another positive sign of the increase in those anxious to
break the habit." To quote Dr Fakhr, supervisor of the central coordi-
nating staff of the anti-addiction crusade: "Statistics of the activity
of an;i-addiction clinics and hospitals from the first of Shahrivar
[23 Aug] show that some clinics are accepting up to 35 nPw addicts daily.
In the city regions staff act.ions have also begun. We divided the 500
million tLmians allocated for this task among the provinces, and 60 million
tumans of it was allotted to Tehran."
The hospitals and clinics that have bent to this task are also crowded.
For example, Kamil Hospital, which has 43 beds, and which has also created
an out-patient section, began work about a year ago and up to now has
treated 4,250 patients. According to Mohsen Davari-Kia, a physician's
- assistant at the hospital, about 40 per~ent of theae had a positive
outcome. This hospital was established at the former location of Shokufe
Now. According to officials most of the addicts contacting it are persons
who cannot supply the cost of tt~eir habit in the current circumstances,
and who are also under severe presaure from the family and mental points
of view. This was true for most of *_he addicts with whom I talked, and
- they mentioned the unavailability of drugs as one of the main reasons
for breaking the habi:.
The centers which are invalved in tl-ae snti-narcotics crusade ac the
present time, i.e. the i~iin.:stry of Health, Ho~~atolesla~a Khalkhali's
- Special Group and the municipal police, although sometimes having differ-
ences of taste with each other, are on the whole satisfied with the cru-
sade of the last several months. They consider the execution of sr~ugglers
in conjunction with the provision of treatment facilities and Wor1C for
a~dicts to be the most effective path for the crusa~a. At the same time
they do not forget an alteration in social condit,'_ans which would bring
about a lack of new addiction.
According to Hamid Sha'alizadeh, a member of the Board to Determine
Jurisdiction which examines the files of drug smugglers, the cooperation
of the institutions in the anti-drug crusade is such that the ~urisdic-
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are referred to `he Revolutionary Prosecutors' Offices. The most important
reason for this was that the Ministry of Justice was not able to act
swiftly because of its restrictive laws. 0� course, so that, God forbid, ,
an innocent person not be condemned nor a penalty heavier than thP re-
quired level be considered for him, we studied a11 the files and sent
= thoae neceasary to the court."
Sha'alizadeh added: "But we have a Pardoniag Co~runittee of the Revolu-
tion Court at the side of severe punishment. If persons have broken the -
habit and *his is confirmed by a doctor, and also meet the qualifications -
as far as fa*~ily condition, they are pardoned with the final approval of -
Mr Khalkhali."
Hoj~atoleslam Sadeq Khalkhali, confirming this matter, said: "We try
to return them to a healthy life, and if they are suitab].e, we help
them. Even if smugglers come to us and turn~over their goods, we will -
treat them differently,"
Addict Statistics
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 10 Sep 80 p 5 i
[Text] From last Morda3 j23 Jul-22 Aug 79] to 5 Shahrivar [27 Aug 80] ~
about 382 drv.g smugglers have been executed. The ma~ority of them were
executed in the period from the end of Ordibehesht [21 Apr-21 May] of
this year until now, during which time Hoj,~atoleslam Khalkhali has been
' in charge of the anti-drug crusade. Of this number, 115 persons in
, Tehran, 39 in H~rnadan, 39 in Mashhad, 26 in Kerman, 15 in Tabriz, and
13 in Bandar 'Abbas were exPCUted. O~her cities had between one and 12
- persons executed for drugs.
During the four months of activity of Ho,j~atoleslam Khalkhali's special
courts, 30 tons of opium, 6 tons of hashish and 500 kilograms of heroin
were discovered.
Statistics of discoveries by the Office of the Anti-Drug Crusade of the
Municipal Police from the beginning of this year [21 Mar 80] to the end
of Mordad [22 Aug 80J were: 12.5 kilograms of heroin, about 764 kilograms
- of opium, 4 kilograms of burnt opium, a quantity of opium residue, and
2,055 kilograms of hashish. The same office during the last ten months
of last year discovere3 only 295 kilograms of heroin; comparison uemon-
strates the intensity of the crusade and the decrease in narcotics.
As for treatment facilities of the Ministry of Health, 10 hospitals
with 1,460 beds have been allocated to addicts.
Thirty-five out-patient clinics in Tehran and 10 clinics in city areas
are also at the disposal of addicts. Solely from 1 Shahrivar [23 Aug]
until 9 Shahrivar [31 Aug] of this year, 3,117 persons in Tehran have
contacted them.
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ThoEe concerned with addiction give differen~ guesses about the number
of addic4s in Iran. The Health Ministry thinks the nimtber of them between
$00,000 and one million. Dr Fakhr of the health tninistry believes there
a�re between 800,000 and one million. But Colonel Bakhtegan thinks it -
probable that Iran has about 3 million addicta. Ho~~atolealam Khalkhali's
guess is also above 2 million p ersons. But all of them said that many
- addicts have either broken their habit or are quitting, and that a show
of exact stat~stics was not pos sible.
From the beginning of Shahrivar [23 Aug] till now, the Ministry of Health
has distributed 3 kilograms of Methadone, the equivalent of 3 million
c.c., among the anti-addiction hospitals and clinics.
From the beginning of Ordibehesht [21 Aug 80] up till now 35 million pills
to break opium addiction have been given to addicts; 6 million of these
relate to the period from 1 Shahrivar to 12 Shahrivar .[23 Aug to 2 Sep 80].
Nearly 50,000 Valium pills, Largaktil [sic], Sarotan [sic] and several
other kinds of pills, which are auxilliary medicines, have been placed
at the disposal of addicts.
As a result of the drug shortage, the price of one tube of c5pi.:m has
gone up to 1,200 tumans, and one kilogram of good heroin to 6 mil?ion
tumans.
Since the beginning of Mehr [23 Sep 79], nearly 115,000 addicts over
60 ye~rs of age have received two aati-opium addiction pills daily in
order to quiet their nerves.
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IRAN
TEHRAN ANTI-ADDICTION CENTERS LISTED
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 10 Sep 80 p 9 ,
[Text] A complete list of clir,ics and antt-addiction centers in Tehran
has been announced. This list ~aas placed at the disposal of the press
following changes in the locations of some centers. The names and
addresses of these centers are as follows:
(1) Shahid Akhvat Polyclinic, Resalat (Tehranpars) Highway, R.sshid ~
intersection; (2) Ahmadi Clinic, Damavand Road, Imamiyeh stop, begin- i
ning of Kohan Street; (3) Tehran Now Psychiatric Center, Dama.vand Road,
Dariush stop; (4) Dreyfus Clinic, Hevdahhom-e Shahrivar (Shahbaz) _
Street, Kharabat stop; (5) Sadiqeh Reza'i Clinic, at Sar-e Asiab Dulab,
Saber Street; (6) Mosaddeq Clinic, Khaveran Street, adjoining Mosaddeq
Park; (7) Hedayat Psychiatric Center, Hedayat Street.
2. C entral District
(1) Iranshahr Polyclinic, Ayato~lah Taleqani Street, beginning of Iran-
shahr; (2) Abureyhan Polyclinic, South Felestin Street, Sazavar intersec-
tion; (3) Vila Clinic, Enqelab Street, beginning of Ostad Ne~atolahi _
Street, Vila Hospital. -
3. Southern District
(1) Shahr-e Rey Polyclinic, Feda'yan-e Islam Street, Varamin intersec-
tion; (2) Harondi Polyclinic, beginning of Feda'yan-e Eslam Street; -
(3) Shush Polyclinic, West Shush Street, Takhti intersection (Khaniabad);
(4) Razi Polyclinic, Feda'yan-e Eslam Street, beside the chintz fac-
tory; (5) Number Three Shush Clinic, Shush Street, opposite Maham High ;
School; (6) Sizdahhom-e Aban Yad Avaran ~linic, below the gasoline i
station; (7) Number Five Khazaneh Clinic, Qazvin Street, Qapan inter-
aection.
4. Northern District
(1) Manzariyeh Niavaran Clinic, No 2 Manzari;ieh; (2) Seyyed Khandan
(Psychiatric) Center, Dr Shari'ati Street, op~.~osite Bisim, Eshraqi Alley;
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(3) Torab Clinic, Dowlat Street, Heahat intersection; (4j CS.inic of
Imam Khomeyni Hospital, Dr Shari'ati Street, Reza'i stop, Nabavi Alley;
(5) Clinic of Vali'asr Hospital, Ara~ intersection, next to Padgan-e
Ag-dasiyeh.
i
5. Weatern District
(1) Qasemabad Clinic, 20 kilome ters on the Saveh Road; (2) Farmafarma'
yan Clinic, West Heshmatoldo].leh Street, Bastan intersection; (3) Abuzar
Clinic, Bist Metri-ye Fallah Road, next to the Youth Pavilion;
- (4) Gharb-e Hashemi Clinic, Hashemi Street after Sepahi Square, opposite
'Ali Akbar Mosque; (5) 'Abbasi C linic, Shirkokhorshid intersection,
South 'Abbasi Str~et; (6) Qasemabad-Shahi Clinic, 18 kiloa?eters on the
Saveh Road.
In connection with the Jehad [Reconstruction Crusade]
(1) Aryashahr Clinic, Aryashahr Circle, next to Imam Ja'far Sadeq
Mosque; (2) Shahid Harondi Clinic, 'Edam Square, Ghar Street, next to
the Park; (3) Kargar Clinic, Kargar Street, next to Ruzbeh Hospital;
(4) Park-e Shahr Hospital, District A1o 9 Komiteh.
7. Hospitals
(1) Khaneh-ye Omid, Pasdaran 5t reet, Farmanig.eh Street, opposite Neda
Alley; (2) Professor Motahhari Hospital No 1, Kargar Street, Lashgar
(for women) intersettion; (3) Professor MoCahhari Hoapital No 2, Tale-
qani Street, Vesal (for men) intersection; (4) Jehad Clinic No 1,
Kargar Street, Lashgar inter~ec tion, next to Ruzbeh Hospital;
(5) Jehad Clinic No 3, Khazaneh Park, next to the park; (6) Jehad Clinic
1 No 4, Park-e Shahr, Behesht Street, District No 9 Neadquarters;
(7) Clinic No 5 of the Reconstruction Crusade, Fasham intersection;
(8) Clinic No 6 of the Reconstruction Crusade, Damavand Street, Office
of the Reconstruction Crusade; (9) Clinic No 7 of Reconstruction Cru-
sade, Varamin Street, Office of the Reconstruction Crusade.
It is hereby explained that the Yaftabad and Vila Hospitals are as
before busy carrying out their duties.
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IRAN
BRIEFS
NARCOTICS DISCOVERED--Shiraz drug squad personnel have discovered
168 grams of opium and hero3n as we11. as 19,800 Winston cigarettes
in the last 24 hours, [GF161757 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian
1500 GMT 16 Oct 80 GF]
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KUFIAIT
_ ' BRIEFS -
HASHISH, O~I1~ CASE--The drug control authorities have arrested 4 drug suspects:
Mahmud, 'Ala' al--Din, Ibrahim and Marzuq. The arrest wa.s based on the results of
investigations which proved that the first suspect was dealing in druge, assisted
by other individuals who functioned as distributQrs or pushers. The director of the
~ department of criminal investigations, Lt Col Fahd Ah~mad al-Fah, who supervised the
I whole operation to trap and arrest the suspects, said that the tight trap to arrest
~ the first suapect was placed in his residential area, al-Salimiyyah, where he works
as a security guard in a building. This was done through one of the secret contacts
who was able to purchase a large piece of hashish from the suspect for 50 dinars.
A criminal investigations officer arrested the suspect who admitted selling drugs.
. , During a search of his room, the second auspect was seen there. Upon searching the
! latter, a piece of hashish and 2 joints were found on him. The first suapect
' admitted that he had purchased drugs for 100 dinars and had given part of the pur- _
chase to the second suspect. The latter confirmed the story. The first suspect
also mentioned that the third suspect was the source of the drugs and led the
~ authorities to him. Upon arrest of the third suspecr, a piece of opium was found
' in his briefcase. He claimed he had purchased it from an Iranian whose ~ame and
address he did not lmow. The second suspect :.lso claimed that he bought the piece
of hashish found on him from a person whose name and addreas he did not know. -
He had purchased it from the fourth suapect whc has been arrested. The suspects are
under investigation pending trial. [Text] [Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arabic 14 Sep 80 p
2] 9455
MANDRAX CASE--The drug control authorities arrested a suspect named "al-Sayyid"
while he was trading "drug pills:"' The arrest was under instructions from the director
of criminal investigations, based on information related to the suapect. A complete
plan for his arrest was made. Af ter obtaining a search and arrest warrant, one of
the investigators posed as a buyer of the banned Mandrax pills. The suspect was
willing to provide the buyer with 90 pills, or 9 rolls, for 45 dinars. The plan
succeeded, as the investigator and the force accompanying him were able to arrest
the suspect as he handed over the pills. Upon eearching him, 2 rolls of the same
kind of pills were found on him. The suspect admitted that he was dealing in these
_ pills, and claimed that he acquired [hem from an Egyptian person whose name and
address he did not know. Investigations are under way to find the source of theae
drug pills. The aeized drugs were confiecated. [Text] [Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arabic
17 Sep 80 p 5] 9455
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FRANCE
POLICE DISCOVER LSD DRUG NETWORK INVOLVING 3C PERSONS
_ Paris LF FIGARO in French 16 Sep 80 p 13
[Article by Gabriel Chakra "Marseille: and now LSD..."]
- [Text] Following an investigation lasting several weeks, the drug unit
~ of the Marseille SRPJ has just dismanteled a drug network in the Hautes-
Alpea and the Bouches-du-Rhone. Thirty young LSD amateurs, mostly stu-
~ dents and office clerks, were indicCsd by P ierrc~ Michel, examining magis-
trate at Marseille's superior court.
LSD is back. Eclipsed by hashish and heroin, it was relegated to the rare
drug shelf under the name of lysergic acid diethylamide. This hallucinogen
seemed to be outmoded; it was the acid of the California and its co~nuni-
ties of the sixties.
After so long, LSD has returned to France, in one of its most peaceful
cities, Gap, where police have m;3naged to break up a drug ring led by some
_ 30 people. The eff ects of this ring reached succeasively Martigues, Ai~: en
Provence, Salon and Marseille, keeping the latter's image of a pivotal
drug center intact.
Apparently rhis was a structured ring, s:ince it has been affirmed that
through dealers the ring has already put some 20,~J00 LSD capsules on the
market; several hundreds of these were seiz ed by polir_e. "Faced with the
_ risk which this dangerous syntYietic product, LSD, represents, sold in such
massive quantities, it was imperative that we find the leader of this
_ traffic," exp].ained one inspector.
~ The police, was aZerted to the problem when they noticed that the number
of cases helped by drug abuse centers was multiplying. Parallel to this
phenomenon, a number of young people were caught in possession of the _
- capsules. Among them, boys and girls of all eocial strata. T'~eir pri~ici-
pal supplier was quickly located: a certain Robert Pauluus, age 30,
_ already known to the police. Without a struggle, without anger, prostrated,
Pauluus confessed. An adept voyager into artificial paradise himself, he
also knew how to profit fro~ his experiences through the organization of
_ a well-paying traff ic.
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A notebook seized by investigators revealed that the capsules were sold
for 25 FF apiece. Based on an estimated traffic of 4,000 capsules, his
profit should be in t~~~ neighborhood of 100,000 FF. Where does this drug
come from? Amstezdam probably, where merchandiae bought at a low price
is then sold at a high price in France. But the dismanteling of this
network probably won't d~ninish the frightening progression of the drug.
Twp thousand drug addicts in 1968, 25,000 in 1980: two f igures that need
no comment. `
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~ FRANCE
POLICE ARREST POSTMAN FOR IMPORTING OVER 200 KG OF HASHISH
Paris LE FIGARO in French 18 Sep 80 p 14
- [Article by Daniel Curzi "The Postman's Network"]
[Text] His name is Michel Pineteau. To all his colleagues at the central
post off ice 3n Antibes, he was a model postman, 42 years old, "above suspi-
sion". In 6 months however, he allowed his accomplice and boss Francois
Ben Mokhtar, an Algeriar~ Frenchman, to bring more than 200 kilos of hashish
into France.
, Ben Mokhtar's system was simple. His suppliers sent him the drug from
- Morocco in 15-20 kilo packages, making use of the 'poste re~tante'. These
packages were a2dressed to imaginary people, supposedly living in Antibes.
The packages were to be called for at the post office where Michel Pineteau
worked. Using the confidence he en~oyed with his colleagues to his advan-
tage, he lifted the packages as soon as they arrived. He explained to them
that he was "doing a small favor for a friend who could not get around."
New BMW
The traffic has been going on since March. The police were alerted by some-
one at the sorting center in Antibes. This person found the shipment of -
these packages repeatedly from Morocco to be a bit strange. Opening one
of them, inspectors found hashish. They decided to set a trap for the cen-
tral post office. They were, to say the least, surprised to find the model
worker Pineteau interested in these packages.
Once arrested, Pineteau readily revealed the name of his boss to the police.
Ben Mokhtar was then arrested at home. The mailman received 4,000 FF for
each ,r,ackage he delivered. ThreE packages were seized by ;~olice at the
. central post office. Pineteau confessed to having delivered seven packages
to Ben Mokhtar since March. 2'he hashish was then immediately put on the
- market on the Riviera, at the price of 100 FF for a 3g bar.
Michel Pineteau explained that he had accepted Ben Mokhtar's pr_~posals in
order to buy a fancy car. Recently, he had been driving a r.ew BMW, prudent-
ly bought under the name of a friend.
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The two men were incarcerated in the Grasse prison on drug trafficking
charges. In addition, Ben Mokhtar was charged with illegal possession
of arms. While searching his home, a.luxurious residenr_e in Cassis, in
the Bouches-du-Rhone, police found several pistols.
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FRANCE
BETTER INFORMATION SOUGHT ON STUDENT USE OF DRUGS
. Paris LE FIGARO in French 1 Jul 80 p 10
[Article by Jacques Malherbe: "Urugs in the Eigh Schools: Better Informa-
tion Hoped for by Christian Beu~lac"]
:
_ [Text] Though a nation-wide iaquiry by the National Institute of Health
- and Medical Research recently showed that only seven percent of French high
school students have sampled ill~egal drugs already, eome observers fear that
the situation will get worse in years to come, along the lines of the Ameri-
can mode. That is why, "in the absence of any crisis situation, and in col-
laboration with the ministers of health and the interior," Christian Beullac ~
and his colleague Monique Pelletier, minister for the condition of women
- and for family affairs, but especially responsible for coordinati~a of anti-
drug activities within the government; at�e observing a"constant low-key
policv" in educational circles. They exp:!ained their philosophy and their
metaods yeste;rday during a press conference.
The minister of education and his coileague agree in feeling chat where drug
addiction is concerned, "uproar does not lead to progress, and no solution
can be recommended as effective for certain, because every case is an indivi-
dual one."
Drug information "is important, of co~irse, but it does not solve the problem
of a youth who really requires an individual response related to the tempta-
tion of drug use that might confront him." It is therefore appropriate to
start a dialog with the young people, to create an atmosphere of trust that
will make it possible to understand them," so as to foreaarn them of danger
and perhaps to help them.
- This position suggest that Christian Beullac and Monique Pelletier prefer,
~ wher.e young drug users are concerned, preventative to punitive rneasures,
"which, however, does not preclude cooperation with health, ~ustice, and ~
police services," described as "indispensable partners." On the contrary,
the ministers are clearly calling for "a firmly resolute" attitude, "deter-
~ minzd action against traffickers."
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"Anti-drug" organizations have been gradually introduced at all levels of
national education: in every technical and graunnar school, the head of
the institution has assembled a few volunteers from among teachers, doctors,
and parents. The team establishes regular contacts with the city or depart-
ment specialists, so as to have all the necessary support that enables it
to {nfo~, advise, and perhaps help atudents who are involved or troubled.
_ We note that the ~ninistry has at its service a"Mrs Antidrug," Dr Sentilhes,
special advisor to Christian Beullac, who has practised in this field for
- 6 years, at the Yvelines departmental center for assistance to drug addicts.
In addition to her duties of developing overall policy in this area, she may
intervene "at the request" of institutions to settle "particularly difficult
situations."
The f ight against drug addiction in secondary education is also being waged
within the framework of "health clubs," organizations that have been started
since 1977 to gather together students interested initially in health edu-
cation. In these clubs, with the aid of some interested teachers and even
people from outside the educational milieu, discussions and presentations
bear upon the problem of drug addit3on, and also on abuse of inedicines,
alcoholism, tobacco addiction, pollution, and so on. ;
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FRANCE
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKING INDICTMENTS--Grenoble--A network of drug traffickers and
pushers has just been b�,~~ken up by the territorial police of Grenoble,
Chambery, and Saint-Jean de Maurienne (Savoie). Grenoble was the start-
ing point of traffic involving relatively large quantities of hashish, as
well as morphine and heroin, The main supplier, Denis Guillot, aged 30,
has been arrested and imprisoned. Thirty-two other persons, from 17 to 28
years of age, have appeared before the Chambery and Albertville examining
magistrates appointed to hear this case, accused of narcotics dealing and
drug use. Five persons have been charged and two others are presently
being soug:~t. The arrest 3 months ago of hasish puahers at the Valloire
(Savo3e) station and at Saint-Jean de Maurienne enabled the territorial
police to trace the connections to Guillot. [Text] [Paris LE MONDE in
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ITALY
- PROBLE:1!~IS OF DRUG ADDICTION IN CAGLIARI
Sassari LA NUOVA SARDEGNA in Italian 28 Sep 80 p 9
[Text] Cagliari The lack of any public (medical and social)
facilities has doomed Cagliari's 2,000 drug addicts to the ten-
der mercies of organized crime. Because of that lack a city-
wide racket has taken over complete control of the drug traffic
in this city. Anybody looking for "the stuff" must seek out one
of the pushers licensed by the organization that won~t take "No"
for an answer. The pusher i~ not always {make that almast never)
willing to settle for cash, which means the addict is forced into
cri.me: he must rob, snatch bags, or break into a houae, and turn
over whatever he comes up with in exchange for his fix. Gold ,
chains, necklaces, rings, and all sorts of precious or valuable
objects wind up with the fences. Addicts are fux~ther exploited
by being forced into pushing, which means they are consta~titly
on the lookout for young recruits to addict ranks.
The volume of business is enormous: estimates place it as high
as 2$0 million lire every day. Bluntly put,.organized crime stays
safely in the rear, and mana its hazardou~ front lines with the
addicts, in whom it has found both the day-laborers and the vic-
tims of its nefarious activities. And the rear-echelon people
actually run far less risk tha~ their pushers, because the an-
cient law of "omerta~~ [silence under questioning] prevails
out of fear or out of necessity among addicts.
Apparently this cozy arrengement has been shattered recently, be-
cause somebody has talked: the police at last have managed to
blow the cover on some of the pawns of the rackets, wit~ess the
recent arrests of a number of cri.mi.nals already rumored to have
ties with prostitution and with the fences. Tullio Pilato, the
notorious jailbird captured a week ago at Elmas airport with
300 grams of uncut heroin (street value an estimated 600. to�. 8.00
million lire for 60,000 doses) is considered one of the lead-
ing figures in org~nized crime in Cagliari. '
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"Addicts are left completely to their own devices, thanks to the
total indifference and lack of interest on the part of the autho-
rities," says Dr Franco Oliverio, a physician on the metabolic
disease staff of the public hospital, who has special.ized for
years on the probiems of drug addic ts. "There is a total vacuum ,
- hexe" says Oliverio, "and on 10 October the Aniasi methadone
[treatment~ decree is sugposed to go into effect. There is no
way to apply it here, though, precisely because we lack the sup -
porting structures. To get a prescription for methadone you need
a certificate of addiction, but nobody knows what to do to get
one, who is responsible for organizing the system nobody is
doing a damn thing."
The clin~cs and emergency rooms are totally unprepared to cope
with the innovations prescribed in the health minister's decree.
Th~ treatmeut center here has yet to open its doors not one
has opened in all of ~ardinia so far, for that matter-- even
though the center directors have been appointed and the premises
are available, This is the situation, we would point out, 5
years after the law went into effect. The regional comrnittee
for prevention of drug addiction has not Tr:et for 8 months. Its
members, wh~se terms expired with the end of the regional legis- '
lature, have been replaced, but nothing has yet been done. j
"Even so," claims Dr Federico Palomlaa, juvenile court judge, "the
committee did the job it was appointed to do, and came up with
a plan for inte~�vention to prevent and cure drug addiction. Im-
plementation of that plan seems to have bogged down somewhere
along the line." The committee's plan was approved by the regio-
nal government in May 1978, but took effect only in February of
' 1979 after a favorable vote from the regional council. A year
- and a half has gone by since then, and we have yet to see the
- final for*ns of implementation of the agreements with the bodies
singled out by tiie committee to administer the program: the
provinces, the communes, th~ universities, and the hospitals.
"Drug trea+ment centers," says an official in the regioIlal health
o~fice, "can start work the moment all the agreements are signed.
We think that will be done by the end of the year. We are way
behind, but as of now we are just about ready to start work."
The regional Board of Health gets more than 100 million lire a
year to combat drugs.
"Most of the financing," says an official, "has never been com-
mitted, but all funds have been appropriated. In S years, prac-
tically speaking, nothing has been done. A glan for dealing
with addiction has been rirafted, and has received such widespread
recognition that other regions have asked for copies: but that~s
as far as things have ;one. It really leaves you speechless to
think of all that could have been done and to x~ealize that only
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$ years ago thcre was scarcely any heroin to be had in Cagliari.
In 1975 the 'drug party~~ scandal broke in the city. Involved
were some 30 or so young people who used to get together to
smoke hash. We were still at levels lik~ that then, and it
would have been easy to work out and adopt a serious policy of
prevention aimed at halting the spread of hard drugs. Nothing
- was done then, and now there are more than 2,000 Cagliari young-
sters hooked on heroin, and their numbers are unfortunately
growing every day."
_ We are looking right now at a major milestone: th~ implementa-
tion of the Aniasi decree.
"Methadone," says Dr dliviero, �is certainly not a panacea, but
at least it will keep addicts from stealing to pay for a fix.
What we really need is to get organized and not to throw this
chance to do something about the problem down the drain."
"Another reason," offers Gianluigi Gessa, a pharmacologist, "is
that methadone has already been shown to give good results if
it is given in proper doses and under medical supervision. Now
there is the danger that it may be misused and that when that
happeiis, partly becau~;P of the heated controversy, it will not
- do what we hoped it would, and that it will be banned again."
Public indifference prevails where methadone is concerned as well.
"In view of the Aniasi decree," argues Prof Gessa, "we have asked
the regional board o~ health to arganize regular training courses
on the use of inethadone for physicians wishing to take part in
addict treatment programs. So far we have had no response at a11."
Like the addicts who have been lef�t to their own devices are the
handful of physicians (five or six of them in the entire city)
who are volunteering their services to help addicts. "They are
all at the end of their tethers," says Dr Oliviero, "and they
simply cannot handle the load of the hundreds of kids asking for
help. Under these conditions, the only thing these volunteers
can do is to keep addicts from stealing ev~ry day just to feed
their habits. But, unfortunately, there is no way they can main-
tain any sort of control.
There are two small detoxification centers doing a splendid job
in the city. Both are private.ly operated. One is run by a monk
who is a psychiatrist, the other by laymen. Many addicts have
- been treated by them and have recovered their will to live.
That makes the nth time it has been practicaZly deraonstrated
should there still be any need of demonstr3tion that a great
- deal can be done.
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ITALY ~
TWO HEROIN DEALERS ARRESTED IN CAGLIARS
Cagliari Z~�U17I4N$ SARDA in Italian 25 Sep 80 p 6
~Text] Two more drug pushera have taken up residence in Buoncammino
prison since yesterday. One was arrested as he was waiting to board a~et ,
for Rome from Elmas airport, where police last Sunday put the cuf~s on ,
Tullio Filato, the Cagliari-born ea-convict who xas caught in posaeasion ;
of 302 grams of uncut heroin. The other was picked up in a town in the i
northern. part of the island. Their names have not been made publlc, and ;
police have in fact clamped a tight ssarecy lid on the entire investiga- ~
tion.
"Their names? I forget," said Dr Gianni Pesce in reply to a reporter's
queation. "All I can tell you is that they are big fish, as big as
- Pilato.~
Drug dealers on a large acale, then, according to the investigators who
over the past 2 months have mapped out a11 the heroin "mini-markets" in
the city and in Campidano toans, arid performed a census of local addicts
on the bssis o~ inYormation extrscted Yrom some oY the 26 pushere they
have 3ailed in the course of the probe. The contact points for users ,
einnd d~alers are no longer to be found in the old spots on Via Scaano,
Piazza Giovanni JCXIII, or Monte Urpinu. Folloxing repeated police eMeeps
of those haunts, the puehere and addicts h~,ve moved out to the outskirts
of town: no~? they meet at Is ~irrionis, on Via La P1aiR, at Selaxgius,
Quartucciu, and Quartu. ~
"Their numbers are steadily ~rowing," eaid Poliae Chief Peece: "we have '
, around 2,000 of them in the city, and another 500 or so in the ama11 towns ~
of Campidano."
The chief under$cored the point that heroin use has reached about a ki1~
a day (heroin cut with other drugs, chalk, or painkillers, that is).
"Our eetimatee ahow that 300 grams of uncut heroin will bring a pusher no
less than 60,000 P~xea, which means several kilos of goods,01 Pesce added.
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There is a total blackout of newa on the inveatigation: the chief re-
Pused to answer any question whataoever. Ylf~ile admitting that the hurit
is on, island-wide, and that it is aimed primarily at the bossea of the
"snow"-pushers' organization, he would not say whether or not he expects
= ma~or developments say time eoon. "All I can tell you ie that we made
two arreete yesterday. I have nothing to add to that," said the chief.
Security was equsl.ly stringent at the Hall of Justice: Deputy Proaecutor
Ettore Angioni made it cleax that information would be released only phen
- the investigation was complete. He r?ill alsmost certainly pay a call at
Buoncammino prieon tomorrow to question Pilato. Still awaited for today
is the return from Rome of the police ofYicer who delivered the heroin
siezed in the arrest to the experte at the Central Police Laboratory.
We shall find out then what kind o~ drug it was that the Cagliari pusher
was hiding in his ~ockey ehorts when he was arrested at ~lmas airport.
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ITALY
DRUG DEALERS ARRESTED IN SALERNO
Messina GAZZETTA DEL SUD in Italian 13 Sep 80 p 12
[Article by Alfonso Carella: "Drug Raid Nets Seven Arrests"]
jText] Salerno-lfao youths from Cassano Jonio in the Coaenza district,
Giovanni Oriolo and Antonio Morelli, both 23 years old, we~e arrested
and confined to Cosenza`s Colle Trj.glio Prison while waiting to be trans-
ferred to Salerno to be tried as part of a drug ring. The narcotics
raid, carried out particularly in the Salerno area, led to the arrest of
seven young drug puahers and to a warrant for the arrest of.two other
Salerno youths for the same offense, already in custody on other chargea.
A few evenings ago, a unit of the Salerno flying aquad apprehended a
_ boy of 16 and a girl of 21 who were "shooCing up"; they were in the
corridor of a building in Via dei Principati in th~ center of the city.
The two were arrested and taken to the police statioa. During the
interrogation it was learned that the girl had been initiated in the use
of drugs by two Cassano Jonio yauths, Oriolo and Morelli, while they
= were vacationing in Calabria. At the request of the Salerno police and
in pursuance of a warrant for their arrest issued by one of the j udges,
the two young men were arrested in Cassano Jonio by officers of the
Cosenza flying aquad.
The investigation further revealed that certain Salerno drug addicts,
who had become puahers in order to obCain drugs for themselves free of
charge, were frequently supplying Calabrian youth wiCh varioua narcotics
(heroin, morphine and cocaine). Thus, from a few arrests made expedi-
tiously, it became apparent that considerab],e skill would be required
= to pull off the operation which took place yesterday morning at dawn
resulting in the arrest of the aeven youths.
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ITALY
_ BRIEFS
COUPLE �OSSESSING HEROIN ARRESTED--Alghero--During an antidrug operation,
an Alghero mobile police unit arrested two young people for illegal
possession of heroin. The two were identified as Giuseppe Pischedda of
Alghero, garbage collector, 29 years old, married and the father of four r
children, and his accomplice and girl friend, Maria Pittalis, 20 yeara of
age, employed as a maid in Alghero and residing in the Tanca Farra area.
After being stopped at the Piazza Sulia sCation while ri3ing in a
Giuiia GT and subsequently identified, the two were released by the
police. Afraid of being searched, Pischedda and Pittalis i~ediately ~
got rid of a matchbox in which the police laCer discovered 12 doses of
heroin wrapped in tinfoil. Bq the Cime Che officers retri.eved the box ~
containing Che drug from the ground, the two suapects had already gone '
- on their way. Marshal Meloni, in charge of thepolice squad, discovered
the drug in the matchbox, gave chase, and the two suu~pects were sub~e-
quently caught. Upon investigating the matter in detail, the police
learned that Pittalis had thrown the matchbox out of the car window when
- the two were first being cheeked. The police are treating the affair with
discretion. [Text] [5assari LA NUOVA SARDEGNA in Italian 14 Sep 80 p 7]
8568
DRUG PUSHER ARRESTED--A drug pusher was arrested yesterday afternoon in
Villa Sperlinga. He was identified as Luciano Bertolino, 21 years of
age. The po~ice found him to be. in possession of 2 grams of heroin '
divided intc four packets. Bertolino was arrested by one of the mobile
police units which carry out antidrug operations particularly in the
public park which, despite tens of arrests last m~nth, continues to be
the meeting puint of add3.cts and pushers. The arrest took place in the
usual manner. Two policemen saw a young fellow cautiously approach a
group of well-knQwn heroin addicCs, became suspicious and ordered him to
stop. The suspect attempted to flee but was overtaken and seized. The
narcotic was found in his pocket. Luciano Bertolino--who has a previous
record �or theft--is a waiter by trade. Until a short time ago he was
working at the "Johnny Walker" in Carini but is now unemployed, he says.
He is living with his pregnant wife at 36 De Cosmi St. jExcerpts]
jPalermo GIORNALE DE SICILIA in Italian 17 Sep 80 p 6] 8568 ;
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TWO HEROIN ADDICTS ARRESTED--Sassari, 17 Sep--7~ao drug addicts were
arrested 'hiesday afternoon by the police department's narcotics aquad
and charged with possessing and selling drugs. The two are Attilio
~ Cadoni, 23 years old, of Torralba, and Laura Sanna, 22 years of age.
Arrested in the vicinity of their own home and taken to the police
station, the two were found to be in posaession of 41 doses of heroin.
The investigation had been touched off by a tip received by the nar-
cotics squad commanded by Marshal Barbalinardo, according to whom the
_ two young people had allegedly purchased the "merchandise" from ~mbers
of the underworld (prostitut~:on in particular) for subsequent resale.
Cadoni, known as "Largone," is said to be one of the �irat to traffic
heroin in the city. However, his young friend has a"political" past,
having been in sympathy with the rightist movement, "Aryan Sieterhood,"
which laeted only a few months. The two were confined in San Sebastian
prison where they are awaitin g further action by the court. Meanwhile,
the investigation is continuing and seems to be directe3 toward Porta -
- San Antonio, a well-known meeting place of organized crime, which is
_ slowly taking over the hard-drug market. It ia not known whether useful
information emerged from statements made by the two individuals arrested.
However, a slowdown in the supply of drugs was allegedly observed in the
piazza d'Italia market that same day, and this has caused panic among
heroin addicts; meanwhile, police headquarters states that further
developments will be forthcoming. [Text] [Cagliari L'UNIONE SARDA in
Italian 18 Sep 80 p 10] 8568
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, SWE'~EN
POLICE ARREST COLOMBIAN NARCOTICS RING IN STOCKHOLM
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 24 Sep 80 p 28
[Article by Leif Dahlin]
[Text] Part of a Colombian narcotics organization was uncovered by the
regular police force in Stockholm. Detective Superintendent Hugo
Nyberg of the national police narcot~~s section suspects the Colombian
couriers were smuggling in a large quantity of cocaine for ~he so-called
home market in Stockholm. One hectogram w.3s seized. The arrest of
_ three men and one woman, all from Colombia, has been requested.
Through Interpol the national police got a tip 3 weeka ago that ~~olombian
cocaine smugglers were on their way to Sweden ~rith a large amoun " De-
tectives also managed to identify a leading figure who lived at a h~~tel
in Vasastan. The man was shadowed and seve~~al other addresses where
South Americans live were placed under s~rveillance. Up to last Thursday
the detectives still had n~ reason to make a move. It was an off day
for surveillance and it was then that two patrolmen in a radio car came
_ into ~he picture.
While patrolling the town they observed a truck they had seen before in
connection with a crime. They decided to drive after it. They had also
seen that two men with South American features sat ~n the front wlzile a
small child was in the back seat.
The police saw that the men became uneasy but they stopped on Lu:~dagatan
at the request of the police.
While the drivEr of the police car ~ot out ~nd asked to see the man's
driver's licence the South America�.i's comrade got out of the truck on
the other side. The second poli::eman, who had remained sitting in ~he
car, suddenly saw in his rear view ~air~ror that the man outside had begun
to rip and tear up a plastic bag behind his back. ~'he policeman saw
something white drifting down between his legs. The policeman jumped
. out and managed to grab the bag. The police fouad a hectogram of cocaine.
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~ "I think the patrolmen should be commended for their actions because I'm
not so sure we would have found anything on these experienced smugglers
otherwise," said Superintendent Nyberg.
Both men were taken into custody. The chiid was turned over to the c:~il-
dren's protection authorities and a Colombian man and woman were seized
at another address.
One of the men says that back home in Colombia he had heard that there
was a lot of money to be earned on the Swedish drug market. But he de-
nies having brought in the confiscated cocaine.
Cocaine hauls are not very common. During the first half of this year
- only 4.5 hectograms ~f cocained were seized in eight incidents in the
whole country.
Cocaine is supposedly an ag:~rodisiac and costs around 1200 kronor a gram.
The hectogram just seized is thus worth more than 100,000 kronor.
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~ ~
SGJEDEN
STOCKHOLM POLICE ARREST OVER 30 DRUG SELLERS IN PARKS
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 26 Sep 80 p 14
~Article by Claes von Hofsten]
[Text] In all about 30 drug dealers have now been arrested in the Stock-
- holm police force's systematic raids in parks and outside schools.
At the same time some 60 people have been caught buying drugs. But in '
general they had so little on them that it came under the heading of
"supplies for personai use," meaning they were not charged.
"The surprising thing is that regular 'Svenssons' not previously known
_ to us as drug abusers turned up as buyers to a much larger extent than
we had expected," said Superintendent Rune Unered who led the raids.
When the raids began a month ago the police started out with Vitaberg
Park. After several return raids the police now regard the park as rela-
tively 10clean." But further checks will be made in Vitaberg Park.
The police have not made any big drug hauls in the course of these raids.
That was not the primary goal either. The aim is to annoy "street
dealers" and thus make it more difficult to find opportunities to sell
drugs.
- If resources permit the raids will continue during the fall in other
parks frequented by the public and in the vicinity of schools.
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SWEDEN
PLENTIFUL HEROIN SUPPLY LEADS TO PRICE WAR~ MORE USAGE
Stockhoim SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 25 Sep 80 p 18
[Article by Agneta Lagercrantz]
[Text] The big dealers on the heroin market have started a price war
that could have serious consequences in Scandinavia. The street price
for heroin has fallen to 850 kronor a gram in Denmark. ,
"In Sweden heroin has cost around 2500 kronor a gram for the last 5
years," said Detective Superintendent Hugo Nyberg of the national police.
No price war has yet hit the Stockholm street market.
One of the reasons for the dumping prices is that there is a surplus in
Denmark where morphine pills are still attractive. But in Sw~eden heroin
quickly edged morphine out on the market.
Bad Harvests
A conflict is also going on between the two big drug areas in the world
according to international information received by the head of the Qslo
police narcotics section, Arne Huuse. The big shipnenis from the so-
called Golden Triangle--Thailand, Burma and Laos--have been interrupted.
by several years of rrop fa~.lure and poor harvests. The former drug
capital, Amsterdam, has been abandoned in favor of Yugoslavia where most
big drug hauls are now made. About 90 percent of the narcotics there
- come from Turkey, Hugo Nyberg said.
"In Sweden we hava had reports that heroin from the Middle East is
_ cheaper. A s~,urplus here could also lEad to dumping prices and a risk
that abu5:: would increase." ~
New Triangle
Most of the heroin now comes from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. . This
year Iran is expected to account for the lar6est heroin production in
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the world. This new triangle sells its batches at dumping prices to out-
compete the Golden Triangle which in turn has further reduced its own
- prices.
~ There is a constant movement of heroin out of Yugoslavia and it reaches
Scandinavia via Germany. Norwegian police have recently found cle.ar
indications that international drug rings are operating their ocJn deliv-
ery routes to Scandinavia. The market here is regarded as very attrac-
ta.ve since the price level here has traditionally been high.
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SWEDEN
BRIEFS
FLIGNT STEWARD SMUGGLED HARHISH--A 31-year-old Swedish flight steward ,
was seized Thursday at Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen when he ~ried to
smuggle in 34 kilograms of '.ashish in a double-bottom suitcase. On the
illegal market the drugs seized would be worth around 2 million ~cronor.
On Thursday chief prosecutor Carl-Gusta~ Pfeiff asked in Helsingborg for
the return of the 31-year-old man to Sweden. The man resides in Skane.
The flight steward arrived on an SAS plane from Thailand. After he ~
finished work he took out his suitcases but was arrested by Danish po- ;
lice soon af terward. Thursday evening Pfeiff would not reveal any de- !
tails related to the smuggling attempt. For example he would not say if ~
~ the arrest was made af ter a tip to the police or if any other arrests
can be expected in Sweden following the incident at Kastrup. According
to narcotics experts with the Ma~mo police force the current "street
rice" for hashish is between 50 and EO kronor per ram. ~Text]
~Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 26 Sep 80 p 18~ 6578
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