JPRS ID: 10595 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/10595
17 June 1982
- WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 27/82)
CONTENTS
ASIA
BURMA
Brief s
Opium Seized in Pegu 1
PHII,IFPINES
Dogs Used in Anti-Drug Drive
(M. Silva; PHII,IPPINES DAILY EXPRESS, 18 May 82) 2
Advantages of Drug Detecting Dogs Noted
- (Editorial; PHIZIPPINES IlAILY E%PRESS, 20 May 82)...... 3
Briefs
Marihuana Plantations Raided 4
SINGA,.PORE
- Briefs
Opium Seized From Burmese Ship 5
SftI LANKA
National Narcotics Control Board Secretariat Opened
(Peter Balasuriya; THE ISLAND, 12 May 82) 6
Sri Lanka Warned on Transmitting Drugs
(DAIZY NEWS, 18 May 82) 7
St'ern Measures for Foreign Drug Dealers
(Peter Balasuriya; THE ISI.AND, 7 May 82) 8
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Drug Abuse PrEVention Plan Drafted
; (DAILY NEWS, 12 May 82) 9
Bx'ief s
Airport Surveillance Up 10
Narcotics Board Headquarters 10
THAII~AND
Khun Sa Attempts To Bargain With RTG Noted
- (SIAM RAT SAPPADA WICHAN, 16 May 82) 11
Drug Dealing Diplomat Controversy IJiscussed
(SIAM ftAT SAPPADA WICHAN, 16 May 82) 11~
Heroin Mailorder Scheme Reported .
(MATICHON, 2!~ Apr 82) 17
Columnist Hits Singapore as Source of Chemical
(Pricha Kunpricha; DAO SIAM, 3 May 82) 18
Prosecutors Told To Stiffen Control of Drug Cases
(DAO SIAM, 3 May 82) 20
Briefs
Italian Arre~ted T~'ith Heroin 21
Heroin Seized After Chase 21
Arrests Follow Heroin Seizure 21
Acetic Anhydride Shortage 22
CANADA
Cocaine Seized in Drug Roundup; Nine Charged
(THE VANCOWER SiTN, 12 May 82) 23
Briefs
Drug Cache Seized 2!~
Trafficker Jailed 21~
LATIN AMERSCA
COLOMBIA
Drug Traffickers Kill Indians
(Walter Martinez; EZ TIEMPO, 28 Apr 82) 25
Briefs
Cocaine Confiscated 26
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GUYANA
Brief s
Seizure of Marihuana 27
MEXICO
' Bri ef s
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GREECE
" BRIEFS
FRENCH HEROIN SMUGGLERS CONVICTID--In separate cases, a court in the northern
Greek town of Komotini has sentenced a Yugoslav and a French couple to long
jail terms for attempting to smuggle Turkish heroin worth more than six
million dollars into Greece, a police spokesman said. The spokesman said
Perez Attia, a 27-year-old metal-worker and his sister Hanna, 31, both
French citizens of Israe~i origin, (no hometown available), were jailed
for 20 years on Thursday. Customs officials at the Kastania border crossing
found 27 kilograms (59 pounds) of heroin valued at five million dollars
concealed in their car. The court also sentenced Sancakli Hamdi, a
45-year-old Yugoslav restauranteur resident in Vienna to 15 years for
entering Greece with seven kilograms (15 pounds) of heroin valued at
1.3 million dollars stashed under the windshield of his car. Hamdi also was
arrested after a customs search at Kastania. [Text] [NC052152 Athens
ATHENS NEWS in English 5 Jun 82 p 4 NC~
ITALIAN HEROIN TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--From the Ministry of Finance~it was
announced that agents dealing with the pursuit of customs violators arrested
at the Evros customs station two Italia~n citizens, Peton Armando and
Lorentzana Barotti, for attempting to smuggle into Greece 1,200 grams of
heroin valued at 12,000,000 drachmas. The heroin had been meticulously
hidden in the motorcar airvent. [TextJ [Athens ATHENS NEWS in English
5 Jun 82 p 4 NC]
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ITALY
OVERVIEW OF ILLICIT NARCOTICS ACTIDITIES
Rome L~UMANITA in Italian 20-22 Apr 82
/20 Apr 82 p 37
[Article by Fabio Scaramucci: "Trip to the Drug Planet, 1]
[Text] The problem of a few has become a mass tragedy.
Heroin victims have multiplied from year to year.
- A phenomenon that requires the commitment of everyone in order to obtain a
reversal.
Minister of Interior Rogxioni recently said that the drug phenomenon in Italy is
now more disquieting, more dangerous, and more deep rooted than terrorism.
That is why the government has decided to cambat it at all levels, since it
considers drugs to be one of the greatest dangers with respect to the distortion
and regression of Italian societq.
The figures, in addition to being valuable in other respects, speak clearly.
From 1973 to the present, there~has been a steady and striking increase in
drug mortality. The single victim recorded in 1973 was followed by 8 in 1974,
26 in 1975, 31 in 1976, 40 in 1977, 62 in 1978, 129 in 1979, 208 in 1980, and
230 in 1981. And these are only the official figures, which do not include
those of drug deaths that are not known because they are recorded in reports
_ that speak vaguely of cardiac and circulatory disease, of viral hepatitis,
inexplainable road accidents, or suic3des during periods of obvious absten-
tion. But how did things get to this level?
The drug calamity started to take shape in our country in 1970. One set of
statistics shows that there were about 500 drug addicts in Rame (none of the~m
heroin addicts), all less than 26 years old. But already in 1975 this reality
had radically changed. There was talk in Rome of 1,000 persons addicted to
"heavy" drugs, while in Italy as a whole there were probably 6,000. Thus, in
5 years the nature of drug dependency had changed substantially. Around 1970
the most widely distributed drug was hash~sh, followed at a distance by mari-
huana. That is, we were still in the field of "light" drugs.
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$ut this ~ituation did not last long~ While in 1972 the distribution of
amphetamines was alreadq a big phenomenon, it did not take long for the "new
J stuff" to~appear. First came morphine and then, toward the end of 1974, came
heroin, the lethal "white death" that decimated young lives.
Distributors carefully chose sample citi~es for their "launches"--and from
Milan, Turin, Genoa, Livorno, and Rame came the second phase of drug dependency.
It seems that at first distributors offered heroin completely free of charge,
but it is definitely known that in Milan, in December 1974, a dose (40 percent
_ pure) cost about 10,000 lire, an attractive price.
However, it took a couple of years more for the phenomenon, which in the
meantime had spread like an oil stain, to reach its present tragic dimensions.
But it is now a fact. In big cities, the distribution of heroin exceeds the
gloomiest of predictions. At the s~e time--but certainly not by chance--
amphetamines and "light" drugs are disappearing little by little fram the
market. Distributors are multiplying and now the most conspicuous person is
the victim, himself, the drug addict, forced to become a distributor in order
to obtain money for his own drugs. Deaths are beginning to be counted,
increasingly numerous and to a great eztent of very yo~ing persons. It is
estimated that there are at least 100,000 users of opiates today in Italy,
while speaking conservatively at least 600,000 persons more or less consistently
use "light" drugs. But there are also tho3e who speak of a million drug
addicts, young people in particular, fram 11 to 25 years of ag~, whose average
age wnfortunately is decreasing.
Taking, for example, the 436 official drug victims recorded from 1977 to 1980,
it is noted that until 1978 the deaths were included in the 18-25 year old .
group (63.3 percent), and the 26-40 year old group (36.7); while from 1979 on,
the phenomenon extended to other ages, both older and younger, with a much ~
higher incidence for those younger than 18. Thus, in 1980, 4.3 percent of the
victims were younger than 18 and 1.5 percent older than 40. Still in that
' year, out of 208 deaths, 182 were mal~s, but the percentage of deaths for females
younger than 18 was 15.4 percent, compared ~rith 2.7 percent for males. The
same was recorded in the over 40 group. Women represented 7.7 per.cent, com-
pared with 0.6 percent for men.
Thus, in a short time drug addiction changed from the problem of a few to a
mass tragedy. Because of the enormous n~mmber of young people involved,
because of the power of drugs to ranage phycho-physical integrity and the social
and moral behavior of entire generations, because of the waste of resources con-
nected with the use of drugs, it is a question of a phenamenon that assumes
specific political, social, and cultural importance. It requires the commitment
~ of everyone in order to attain a reversal.

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/21 Apr 82 p 37
[Article by Fabio Scaramncci: "Trip to the Drug Planet, 2"]
[Text] Heroin abo~ands in big cities, but also in small loc~lizies, and in
vacation spots. Organized crime controls drug trafficking, with enormous
profits.
In recent days, during the course of a big s~mit meeting of magiszrates, poli-
ticians, and police of.ficers, striking figures on the distribution of drug~
in Rome were made lmown. They were collected by the Drug Squad of the
_ Solicitor's Office in 2 years of full-time activity in this field. In the
capital 20 kilos of cocaine and as many of heroin are secretly sold daily to
meet the demand of at least 70,000 drug addicts, with a wholesale "turnover"
of about 2 and 1/2 billion lire. On the other hand, magistrates of the
SoZicitor's Office said that it is impossible to furnish precise data on the
distribution of "light" drugs, since the use of hashish and of marihuana "is
so generalized that Rome is literally inundated with them."
Thus, in Rome there are at least 40,000 young heroin addicts; but these preoccu-
pying levels are certainly characteristic also of other big Italian cities,
such as Milan, Turin, or Naples. However, the drug phenomenon is no l~nger
limited to big urban settlements. In fact, beginning with 1979, many small
centers--in particular, vacation spots--have exceeded every forecast in the
matter of drug sales. Mass tourism of course is among the causes of the
spreading of the phenomenon in bathing resorts. At most beaches in ~the s~mer
there is now an enormous availability of heroin, supplied not only by the usual
- venders, but also by Italian and foreign tourists who pay for their vacations
through the sale of drugs.
Along all Italian shores, the market has become very prosparous. i:t is esti-
- m~ted that last summer, on the Adriatic coast alone, the quantities of drugs
_ sold were much greater than the annual consumption in big cities. The same
phenomenon was ascertained at all of the beaches on the Tuscan coast, where
~ the drug problem, which in winter is relatively contained, assumea particular
_ virulence in summer. The traffickers, from the clearing bases at GrosePto and
Massa, supply the market with an abundance of drugs, to meet the increa Q in
aemand. However, Pesaro on the Adriatic, Naples and Salerno on the ~yrrhenian
Sea, Sanremo and Ventimiglia on the Ligurian Sea, still constitute the biggest
bases from which heroin radiates to vacationers.
A particular reference to the drug market increase in smaller centers should be
made in the case of Verona. Out of a population of 270,000 inhabitants, there
are more than 10,000 drug addicts. This means that percentage-wise, this
city of the Scala family can truly be characterized as the drug capital of our
country. Heroin comes to Verona directly from tlie Middle East (by sea or on
board the TIRs, and the i~ense quantities on the market cost less and are
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purer; they contain 20-30 percent heroin, comp2red with 5-6 percent on the
Rome "market." Daily consumption has reached 3 kilos of heroin, 90 kilos a
month, valued at 27 billion lire. Taking 15,000 lire as the base price of a
dose, it is without doubt one of the lowest in Italy.
It is well known that the biggest existing crime organizations are behind this
enormous drug trafficking. In Rome--as the magistrates of the Solicitor's
Office emphasized--the traffickf.n~ of cocaine can be traced back to South
_ American criminality, to the Neapolitan Camorra [Neapolitan secret organization],
and to the Calabrian 'ndrangheta; heroin, on the contrary, is controlled by the
Sicilian mafia and, to a lesser degree, by Arab criminality. However, the
mafia exerts an undisputed leadership in the control of trafficking, not only
with respect to the national market, but also the foreign one (West Germany,
the United States, Canada), with tremendous proceeds. It is enough to realize
that the proceeds of annual drug sales has been estimated at 20,000 billion
lire in Sicily alone.
Just to get an idea of the enormous profit realized by the criminal organizations
- that control the production and trafficking of dxugs, one must realize that to
_ obtain one kilo of heroin in a well-equipped laboratory (and in Sicily no less
that 7 were discovered in recent months), 850 grams of morphine are needed;
while to obtain one kilo of basic morphine, 10 kilos of opium are usually needed.
At present 10 kilos of opium cost the trafficker about 800,000 lire, but the
full kilo of heroin that can be obtained from it, once fractionated and dis-
tributed on the international market, can amount to something like 1 billion lire.
It is thus a question of the most gigantic criminal speculation ever carried
out in any sector. It has induced big crime to definitively abandon other
classic channels of support: prostitution, illicit gambling, the smuggling of
cigarettes.
/22 Apr 82 p 37
[Article by Fabio Scaramucci: "Trip to the nrug Planet, 3"]
[Text] Italy has become an international drug trafficking crossroad. In the
face of a phenomen~n of such proportions, the ways and means of transporting
the "stuff" are varied.
Drugs start with the cultivation of poppies, from which opi~ is derived, the
main economic support of some countries. The biggest producers of opiwn are
India, the Asian "golden triangle" (Thailand, Burma, and Laos), Pakistan, ,
Afghanistan, Iran, and the Soviet Union, but the material that is trafficked
is distributed on the international market, in order of importance, from the
"gold triangle," India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Mexico.
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_ The most impartant world distribution routes of the bulk of the drugs are the
"golden triangle"--Hong Rong--the United States, the Turkish-Russian (which
transports drugs fram the Middle East to the United States, through Franee),
and the Turkish-Slavic-G~rman, bq land, through Italy. However, drugs arrive
in our country for the most part from Holland, Monaco (one of the transit
routes), Afghanistan, and Thailand.
The ways and means of transporting the "stuff" are varied, but recently
"couriers" have resorted with greater frequency to using suitcases with false
- bottoms. They have also tried to import drugs by concealing quantities in
- pictures, statues, or on themselves, in the heels of shoes, or even in their
intestines (in small containers placed in the rectum).
In the face of a phenomenon of such proportions and scope, police forces every-
where find themselves in great difficulty. Our police force for its part is
doing all it can. According to the figures of the anti-drug administrative
department of the Ministry of Interior, 15,225 persons were involved in drugs
- in 1981 (compared with 14,222 in 1980). Of these, 9,477 were denounced for the
trafficking and sale of drugs, or other drug-connected offenses (there were
7,783 in 1980); 2,500 were found to be in possession of drugs; and 3,349 were
= declared to be users. In absolute terms, the monthly average of th~se who
were denounced was notably greater compared with the preceding year: 790 in
- 1981 compared with 648 in 1980. The n~ber of kilograms of drugs confiscated
last year by the police, carabineers, and customs officers was 11,437, an
increase of more than 109 percent campared with 1980.
Without ~oubt it is a question of brilliant operation5, but which unfortunately
have an impact on only the base (the "couriers") and the ad3acent, non-carrying
structures (sellers-drug addicts) of the trafficking pyramid, while t.he top
levels remain in the shadow. It must be remembered, in fact, that the drug
- phenomenon has a great crime potential, not only because it fina~nces and sus-
tains the most dreadful of international "gangs," but also because it leads
drug addicts to crime when in search of money needed for their "debt." It is
not for nothing that the magistrates of the Solicitor's Office of Rome have
stated that about 80 percent of the thefts and robberies committed in the
capital and in neighboring areas are carried out by drug addicts. The d?-ug
"circuit" thus produces all kinds of crimes.
In a short time, chiefly because of its particular geographic location and its
coastal development, Italy has become an important internationa~. drug trafficking
crossroad. Because of its extreme seriousness (official estimates speak of at
least 100,000 drug addicts, and of 400 deaths a year, but it is well known that
= the hidden reality is even more preoccupying), the drug phenomenon has beceme
such a great political problem that it has induced the government to assume a
responsibility.
Minister Rognoni announced that a plan for intervention in various sectors
will be unplemented and that it will be articulated along four strategic lines.
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First, a eultural comanitment is enviaioned, and a co~itment to obtain the
knowledge�needed to closely prob~ all aspects of the problem; then, a co~nitment
to fight hard against the criminal circuit that prospers on drugs; finallq, a
thorough means of sensitization of pub.lic opinion, on the one hand, and of the
organization of pertinent agencies, on the other.
The customs officers, for their part, have recently concluded a camplete study
of the sub~ect, in which some financial, penal, and administrative measures
are suggested, in order to stimulate the anti-drug fight in our country.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Costa, on the other hand, has proposed that
a network of Italian investigators be established in countries from which the
drugs that are destined for our maxket emanate, in order to block the trafficking
of drugs at their source. The Foreign Affairs, Health, and Finance ministries
are working on this plan. Their intention is to equip anti-drug offices with
specialized personnel, to be supported by embassies and consulates, in about
20 countries where the greatest quantity of opium, coca, and canabis is produced.
In short, 1982 should be the year for anti-drug mobilization. But to break this
spiral that is becoming more tragic with each day, a commitment will be needed
_ from everyone, because drugs no longer are the private affair of a few. They
_ cut deeply into the social fabric and very life of the country.
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ITALY
MORE STRESS ON SOCIAL ASPECTS OF ANTI-DRUG PLAN NEEDED
- Rome AVANTI in Italian 27 Apr 82 p 8
~Article by Alvaro Benedetti: "Psychologists and Sociologists in Combatting
Drugs"~
~Text] There is one "point" in the government's plan for combatting drugs,
presented during the past few days by Interior Minister Rognoni, that is very
interesting, but not treated in sufficient depth, at least as presented.
TY.is was the point about psychological and social treatment of the drug
dependent after detoxification; a process which doctors and experts agree
should be maintained as one of the basic opportunities within the overall
strategy toward achieving the breaking of the drug dependency phenomenon,
obviously in combination with the strategies of combatting smuggling,
education, preventive measures among youth, and publi~ enlightenment.
Therefore, one of the four guiding principles for implementation of the
plan, which, it should be remembered, was prepared by the Ministry of the
Interior with the close cooperation of the Health Department, is a"cul-
tural and informational commitment" by the governmen~t to explore the drug
problem more fully in all its aspects, and, internally; to review "the
quality and quantity of the public and private institutional response in the
areas of prevention and treatment of drug dependency."
This is the point we find interesting: this is the new aspect. The govern-
ment, convinced until yesterday that the drug problem could be dealt with
and resolved solely by massive measures to combat smuggled goods, wholesale
or retail, and, more recently, also with the medical approach based on
methadone and morphine, has now come around to proposing new initiatives,
for example, some kind of education pr~gram for youth in the schools and
barracks.
Now, finally, the government has reached what we may call the third stage,
and has approved the plan, which is described as offering hope of providing
an overall response to a serious problem.
Therefore, there is to.be not only an intensified combat of smuggling, in-
crease in the educational campaign, and more thorough enlightenment of the
public--all, whether or not directly affected at this time--on the "problem,"
but also intensive work on the psychological and social level.
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Thus, alongside the work of the law enforcement organizations and the doctors,
there will be a greater role for the psychologists, physchoanalysts, and
social aides, who are, we repeat, the only ones capable of bringing to a
success~ul conclusion the work begun by the doctors, i.e., to psychologically
heal the~drug dependent, and convince him that he can "live without drugs";
and reeducate him to live with himself and others in the reality of daily
life (school, work, conduct, esthetic appreciation, value of money etc.), in
summary, to put him back in society.
However,tlie public organizations best able to perform this delicate and
determining role do not in fact exi~L, or rather there are some, but in
very limited number, and most of them operating on meager resources. There
are, on the other hand, a considerable number of the so-called "communities,"
most of which have shown good results.
However, strange as it may seem, nobody knows exactly how many there are
and where exactly they are located. The map showing them is notable for its
outline character, and notes that the s ituation is in constant change. How-
ever, by deciding to tackle the drug problem also on the psychological and
social level, the government in the person of the minister of health has con-
ducted an information survey of these "communities," both to determine the
number and location, and to study the structure, methods of operation, results
achieved, and experience developed.
A few months ago the minister of health assigned this research project to the
"Abele Group" study center with headquarters in Turin. It specializes in
maladaptive behavior, and should come up with a picture of the real situa-
tion, though that is subject to rapid variations.
In Italy there are about a hundred "communities," but only 27 are devoted
_ to drug dependents and alcoholics; the others are open also to other youths
who are maladaptive for various reasons.
, These "communities" are spread widely over the country in smaller or larger
concentration depending on the extent of the drug phenomenon in the various
areas: about 75 percent in the north, 20 percent in the center, and the
remaining 5 percent in the south and the islands.
They have developed in various environments: 40 in the country, 35 in the
city, and 25 in semirural areas; only 35 describe themselves as treatment
centers, the others call themselves "communities of service, of life" and
other purposes.
Overall, these "communities" can shelter 1,500 people, most of whom are
between 18 and 25 years old. Ninety percent of the communities were tlie
result of private volunteer activity, and only about 7 percent were set up
by local institutions. Overall, there are some 400 social-health workers
serving in the communities, about 40 of whom are former drug dependents.
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As for the most difficult problem, which they have to face virtually every
day, the matter of financing, half of these "communities" live off private
~ contributions or their own work (agriculture, handicrafts, and other), and
- only four are f inanced entirely by public organizations. The remaining 46
receive both public and private contributions, and of them all only 10 per-
cent request payment directly by the families of youth being sheltered.
Those "communities" are said to be able to handle about 1,500 young people,
and this means that despite their best intentions and the beneficial work that
they do with the totally disinterested contribution of several hundred social-
health workers, they are not capable, and perhaps never will be capable, to
respond to the psychological and social needs of more than 100,000 drug
dependents, particularly the 40,000 heroin addicts.
Thus, it is the state that will have to take action, on a large scale, to
establish specialized organizations. A while ago the exalted minister of
health affirmed that his ministry spends annually 2 billion of his 26 billion
budget on combatting drugs. However, as Beria D'Argentine, chairman of the
- judges association, so aptly observed, the point to examine is whether these
billions are being spent in the best way.
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NORWAY
DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS TIED TO HEROIN GANG3 IN MIDDLE EAST
Oslo ARBEIDERBLADET in Norweg ian 8 May 82 p 11
[Article by Petter Nome]
[Text] A routine m istake by one of tine narcotics syndicates in the Middle
East--this is the probable reason why four yr~ung drug users died of overdoses
in Oslo last week.
The extremely strong heroin never should have reached the market. The drugs
- must be of "high quality" and not too strong--this is the motto of the drug
_ syndicates. In this way, the customers live longer.
According to all indications, this motto is being followed.
"In Germany the number of drug-related deaths has been reduced by half in a
few years--from ov er 600 per year to 'only' 300 to 400," said Helge de Fine,
a Norwegian police off icer with Interpol's narcotics section in Paris.
More Addicts
"This is not becau se the market and drug abuse have declined. On the contrary,"
de Fine said. "But those who process the drugs have gained considerable skill.
They carefully monitor the additives to be sure they are not poisonous and they
see to it that only 'cut' heroin reaches the street market."
'"hus, all indications are that the extremely strong heroin that took the "lives
of four young drug abusers in Oslo in 1 week had slipped through the quality
controls. The drug was 70 to 80 percent pure. Normally it is about 20 percent
pure.
~ "There are no indications that parts of the same shipment have reached other
European countries," de Fine said. "The overdoses in Oslo must be due to
chance."
The "Golden Cresc en t"
Neither de Fine nor investigators in Norway know where the deadly heroin came
from or how large the shipment was. It is believed, however, that it accidently
escaped detection in routine quality controls at one of the drug factories in
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the Middl~ East.
Ninety pexcent of the heroin con~iscated in Europe comes from the "Golden
Crescent,"`the region from Pakistan in the east to the Mediterranean Sea and
Turkey in the west. The drugs are ref ined in this same region by several
_ independent cr iminal organizations.
Maf ia
Previously, the European market was dominated by the Italian Maf ia with drugs
from the "Golden Triangle" (Southeast Asia). After lying low for several
years, the Maf ia ilow seems to be involved more and more in the production and
sale of narcotics. Since 197[omission] this ruthless organization has
reestablished laboratories in southern Europe. The d~ugs pr_oduced here go
pr imar ily to the Amer ican market .
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NORWAY
TRIAL BEGINS; MAN ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING HASHISH FROM MOROCCO
Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian 27 May 82 p 5
[Article by Helge Sorensen]
[Text] The main hearing continued Wednesday in Eidsivating superior court
with statements by all concerned and an examination of the man accused of
narcotics violations, Hakon Willoch. Along with four members of the crew
of the seagoing ship "Baby Bel," he is accused of having smuggled a total of
115 kilograms of hashish from Morocco to Norway in the period from October
1979 to June 1980. The charges against Willoch also included a number of
other serious violations. These were examined in more detail during yes-
terday's hearing.
Willoch has confessed to only one of the items in the accusation without
reservations. This involved helping to finance Einar Aarseth's stay when
he was on the run in Spain.
"Aarseth is a friend of mine and I was glad to help him. I ur.~Qrstood that
he needed money to stay in Spain and it seemed like the right thing for me
to do."
Another item on the list of charges is that Willoch and a friend twisted the
arm of 64-year-old Georg Alstad behind his back and forced him into a bath-
tub full o� water in September 1978 in Goteborg. According to the charges,
the two held the 64-year-old man's head under water until he began to lose
consciousness and then left him lying in the bathtub.
- Willoch said Wednesday that he had been in Denmark at that time and that
the story was not true.
"That is a gruesome story. I am not violent; I am a peaceful sort of per-
son. When conflicts arise, I use my mouth and not my muscles--there are
some people who have already found that out," said Willoch.
Both the friend and Georg Alstad have been called as witnesses in th~ case.
In a detailed statement to district attorney Stein Husby this February,
Hakon Willoch gave a detailed account of what he knew about the smuggling
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trips to Morocco. Willoch said in the statement that he was forced to take
that steF to clear himself of information given and accusations made by the
smuggler~gang. Willoch said in court Wednesday that he had to do that to
show how the others in the case were covering up for each other and putting
the blame on him. ~
Before the statement was sent to the district attorney, Willoch had sent
letters to the others charged in the case, strongly urging them to make
correct statements and tell the truth about his participation in the narco-
tics trafficking.
_ "The letters were a straightforward recommendation to tell the truth, but
the accusations were not withdrawn and I sent the story of the real
smugglers to the district attorney.
"I was not interested in bringing out the tru.th about them, but in bringing
out the truth about myself. They ignored that and I had no choice," said
Willoch.
In the comprehensive letter to the district attorney, Willoch said that a
woman from Drammen knew that her husband was involved in smuggling hashish
from Spain to Norway. But in the police hearing a month later, Willoch
withdrew that allegation because he felt it was pointless to create prob-
~ lems for the woman. In the written police statement, Willoch characterized
the motives for presenting incorrect information as "other than bringing
out the truth."
Willoch said in court Wednesday that he himself used hashish and he also
used the occasion to tell about the ?dniirable effects of hashish.
"I am definitely of the opinion that hashish should be legalized. It is a
pleasant intoxicant that mak~~ people talkative, tranquil and good-tempered.
_ People wtno smuggle and sell hashish have my full sympathy," said Hakon
Willoc:h.
Willoch said that ever since he was released af ter his sentence in 1977,
he had felt persecuted by the police.
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NORWAY
BRIEFS
TRONDHEIM NARCOTICS USE UP--Trondheim--Despite the fact that the Trondheim
narcotics police cleaned up a gang selling amphetamines on a large scale
last year, there are still rumors of widespread use of the substance in
Trondhim. According to the rumors, there are several small groups af people
smuggling the drug in from Sweden. This appears from the annual report of
Trondheim police headquarters which has just been released. The report
also says that LSD is again making its way onto the Trondheim narcotics
market af ter the drug was apparently rejected by addicts for a while. The
police suspect that cocaine is also being used and they think they have ~
good reason for saying that this drug is not unknown in certain artistic
and pop circles in Trondheim. In general the report from the Trondheim
police narcotics division indicates that nar.cotics abuse is increasing.
There was an increase in drug seizures last year compared with previous
years and 128 cases in all were investigated compared with 40 cases the
year before. These cases led to 31 sentences compared with 15 in 1980.
The police feel the use of cannabis has spread both geographically within
the district and to a lower age group. [Text] [Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Nor-
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� ~ SWEDEN
VIEW OF HIGHLY ORGANIZID DRUG NETWORK CHAL?.ENGID
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 28 Apr 82 p 4
[Commentary by Leif G. W. Persson: "The Narcotics Officers' Cops-and-Robber
Romanticism Has Taken Over Realitq"]
jText] All the talk about dope kings at the top of a
pyramid is sheer nonsense, says crime researcher Leif
G. W. Persson. The narcotics market is in reality a very
flat pyramid, with people moving up ~nd dawn and in and out
of the structure. The organization is dissoluble and the
individuals are easily dispensab le.
~ The narcotics king is of no more importance to the structure
as a whole than the mere user.
Evil will b e driven out by evil. This is the thought behind the suggestions
~ of heavily increased authority for the po3.ice. The fight against narcotics is
to be paid for by our giving up fundamental principles of law and order.
First a comment.
There is no given place for the narcotics problem in a debate on law and order.
On the contrary, the discussion benefits when such questions are ignored.
Here this is, unfortunately, impossible because of the approach chosen by the
proponents of the new police methods.
It is thus necessary to examine their main argument: /that these methods will
bring such great advantages to .the battle against narcotics that they will
compensaCe for the losses in law and order/ tbold face].
~ Now something about the conditions for this battle.
- Number of Addicts
According to UNO (Narcotics Abuse Commission), there are 10,000 to 14,000
people who are "heavily addicted to narcotics." Z'he number of "occasional
_ users --present as well as rehabilitated--can, according to the same source,
be estimated at a few hundred thousand.
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uther e~perts .mention higher numbers. Nils Be~erot, for example, maintains
that we~have more than 20,OOO.heavy usex~s.
Be that as it may. In this situation~the esceptions are of less interest. A
t~alistic compromise points to the.involvement of 20,000 heavy users and
approxiaately ten times as man.y occasional users.
Together, these consume (in 1 year, for the whole country, in round figures)
tens of,-kilos of opiates (heroin, etc.), hundreds of kilos of stimulants
(amphetamines, etc.), and thousands of kilos of cannabis (hash, etc.).
Counted in money, it is a market with a turnover of some hundred million
kronor a year, or about as much as the cost of society's total effort in
fighting the problem--police control, customs surveillance and care of drug
addicCs.
_ Number of Policemen
In 1981 there were barely 400 policemen working with narcotics criminality,
evenly distribuCed across the country according to statistical criteria.
- Subtracting a quarter of the men, who are on leave of absence, ill, taking
classes or on vacation, a force of 300 remains.
The majority is behind their desks, busy inv~stigating the 60,000 narcotics
crimes reparted in 1981 or questioning the 13,000 suspects who ended up with
them during the same year.
A mathematical equation:
For each narcotics officer there are appraximately 60 heavy users and approx-
imately 600 occasional users. For each narcotice officer in the field, there
- are 200 heavy users and 2,000 occasional. ones.
The Market
So much for the conditions of the pro~ect. What structure is demanded of the
narcotics market for it to become effective? What kind of technology is
needed?
Esbjorn Esbjornson has the answer. He is the highest narcotics o�ficer in the
country and the man whe initiated and carried through the police strategy used
in this field. It is he who has chaired the different teams thaL developed the
proposals for the new police methods, and it is he who has tried to sell them
in the mass media. He is a man who ought to know what he is talking about.
At least if one looks at the purely formal.
According to Esb~ornson, the Swedish narcotics ~arket has a hierarchical
pyramid structure that is highly organized and closed to the surrounding world.
At the top are the drug kinds, surrounded by ~their courts. Below them are
different layers of distributors and salesmen. At the bottom are the cus-
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The dope is pumped through big pipelines that branch out into a network th~t
- supports the base of the pyramid. Prom there comes return flow of capital that
accumula~es toward the top of the pyramid and f inances new purchases. An
economical circulation with a turnover of amounts in the billions, yielding
enormous profits.
With the help of a group of dependable police reporters who year after year
have been gi~en unlimited space in the country's largest media, Esb~ornson and
his co-workers have taught us that we can strangle the supply of narcotics by
turning of� the faucets at the top of the pyramid. By catching a"narcotics
king," "crushing a drug syndicate," we c~n remove those means considered to be
the necessary condition for the abuse.
This is sheer nonsense.
- The King
Let us look first at the picture of ti~e dope king.
~ Using the mass media's own terminology, the police have put approximately one
dope king a month "out of action" during tt~e 15 years the fight against nar-
cotics has been underway. A closex examination of the reality behind the
headlines shows that the average dope king has amazingly much in common with the
the average basic user.
An absolute ma~ority of them are Swedish citizens, with little or no education,
- their own addiction and a criminal record.
Exchange the word Swedish for Greek, Turkish, Yugoslav...and here you have the
average foreign dope king; a person who would make ynu more depressed than
frightened and who, in normal cases, would not b e able to manage an ice cream
stand without the business folding. Not a millionaire in a s.triped suit with
restaurants, b uildings and a Swies bank account.
Firm Structure
The firm structure of the narcotics market? The inevitable need for capital
and connections in order to reach the higher levels?
Amounts in the 10,000-kronor range are perfectly sufficient for a person to
estab lish himself as a wholesaler. One's own experiences as a user or connec-
tions with such people are sufficient for learning the means and the channels
that make it possible to move up. There are no watertight doors in the nar-
cotics market; people can move readily between the different levels.
There are innumerable examples of "stnall narcotics abusers" who have suddenly
appeared with personally financed kilo lots. After a short period of
esphoria, when the money is gone or the police have stepped in one naturally
returns to one's earlier existence.
It is possible that "Sivan and Sune"--to quote Esbjornson himself--cannot tell
"hash from camel shit." But they learn. In ab out a quarter of an hour.
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Are narcotics difficult to obtain?
Amphetamines can be produced in one's own kitchen with normal distilling
abilities and ingredients available in a drugstore. Within an hour's travel
from Sweden one can get wholesale lots of heroin with the connections and the
capital mentioned earlier. Cannabis can be bought by "Sivan and Sune" and ag
long as the money lasts.
A Hundred Grams
Esbjornson speaks ironically about the hecto lots of heroin that are smuggled
in in vaginas, recCums, car tires and double-bottomed suitcases. But he
carefully avoids mentioning that 100 grams of high quality heroin is equivalent
to 3,000 doses, a year's need for 30 exceptionally intensive heroin users, and
- that the purchase price for such a lot is around 100,000 kronor,..and the
street price is more than 2 million kronor.
- And he is very careful not to mention that all available experience, among
other things his own confiscation statistics and his own work results, shaa
that it is lots of that size and smaller that essentially support the heavy
users in this country.
The narcotics market is in reality a very flattened "pyramid" where people
move up and down in and in and out of the structure, where the organization is
_ dissoluble, the availability relatively high and the uncommunicativeness
proportionately low, where the individuals are easily dispensable and the
narcotics king is of no more importance to the structure as a whole than the
pure user and where the addicting drugs seep through the structure in a very
finely branched distribution system.
The Lever of Belief
It is a structure that contains one unavoidable part, if one looks at the
abuse itself: namely, the 20,000 heavy narcotics users. Moreover it conta�~ns
one essential component, if one looks at the economics of the same market: the
200,000 occasional users who feed the b lackest part of the market with capital.
With t?-~is description of the problem, it is simple enough to understand why
Esbjornson and his friends-in-purpose insist on presenting ~he narcotics
market as they do. They have to, if their resources, their strategies and
their technological demands are not to stand out in all their absurd idiocy.
Unfortunately, one is at the same time pursuing a policy that is not without
consequences.
In the first place, it is an obstacle for seriously intended and effective
measures against a considerable eocial problem. And it will remain an obstacle
as long as enough people believe in Esbjornson's an3 the others' promises and
assurances.
In the second place, it brings great risks to the policemen who are to be used
in the battle: lowered credibility, wasted resources, corrupt legal practice
and plain corruption.
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Impossible Task
In the third place--and now I have returned to what this debate is actually
about--it brings a serious hollowing out of law and order, without giving us
anything in return. Esb~ornson's task is impossible, irrespective of new
technology and new methods.
Please get Esbjornson's article of 17 Maxch and reread it. It mainly contains
half a dozen police station stories, an assurance that we must count on the
good intenCions of the police and a concluding statement that man is even
more awful than Esbjornson believes.
Totally apart from the fact that it does not have to be like that because
Esbjornson thinks it is, this is not what the question is about. Instead, it
is a question of ordinary problem insight and co~anon sense, qualities that in
- this case can b e used with advantage to produce a society with a lessened
need for drugs and to give us functional care of those who are already users.
� We already have enough police knawledge. It is only to return to the o1d-
fashioned, strict and legal methods that were practiced before the agent and
the cops-and-robber romanticism was allowed to take over raality.
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' SWEDEN
MAXIMUM SENTENCES SEEN FOR AMPHETAMINE SMUGGLERS
Stockhc,lm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 17 May 82 p 6
[Article by Sune Olsson]
[Text] Two big drug dealers from the early 1970's are
back in custody. ,They will be tried Monday [17 Piay] for
deals involving at least 40 kg of amphetamines, and public
prosecutor Bo Josephson is asking the court to adjudicate
10 million kronor in compensation for the profits on their
businesses. The men risk 14 years' imprisonment.
Behind the action against the men lies a complicated and difficult investiga-
tion which also includes an extensive alibi check in Spain. The prosecutor
and the narcotics police investigator, Criminal Inspector Bengt Widlund, to- ,
gether with the Spanish criminal investigation police, carried out a big in-
vesti~ation, which broke down the alibi offered by one of the men. A Spanish
e~amining magistrate, a Spanish hotel-owner, and a Spanish journalist also
participated in the investigation.
~arl~ in tt~e 1970's the two men.got long terms for serious narcotics offenses,
one of them near the maximum term. That means that they are in the immediate
risk zone under the new system of penalties that was introduced when intern-
ment as a penalty was abolished a year or so ago. At that time special rules
were introduced for persistent offenders, where the importance of Protecting
society is regarded as taking precedence over the rehabilitation aspects.
In the present case the rules mean that if the men'$ guilt is considered
proved the court can sentence them to up to 14 years' in prison. Public pros-
ecutor Josephson says that he will demand the maximum penalty in court.
The unmasking has its origin in the story of the Netherlands truck driver who
was seized in Skane in February when he was about to deliver a truck tire
packed with 42 kg of amphetamine. The man, who was later sentenced to 9 years
in prison, confessed that on 11 November of last year he had also trans~orted a
- spare tire filled with at least an equal amount of narcotics and delivered it
in Skane.
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Not a Member of the Ring
The police's problem, however, was that the truck driver was not really a mem-
ber of the ring. He received the tire and contents prepaid from members of the
_ league that were unknown to him down on the continent. He found out where he
was to deliver the tire in Sweden, but he did not know the Swedish recipients.
How the police got on the track of the two men now involved is not reported.
They have been in custody for weeks while the investigation was being conducted
on a large scale both in Sweden and in Spain. In Sweden the police found in a
safe deposit box belonging to one of the men gold, jewels, and loose precious
stones worth nearly 200,000 kronor altogether. In 1981 the man had only
32,000 kronor in officially declared income, but he declares a capital of
300,000 kronor in round numbers.
~ The man was released after his previous imprisonment in 1977 and at that time
had debts from earlier narcotics deals of several hundred thousand kronor. He
paid off these, too. In a bank account that is now empty, a relatively short
time ago the man had nearly a quarter of a million [kronor]. And t~hat accoLnt
showed plenty of large deposits and withdrawals, the largest in the 100,000
kronor class. ~
Both Deny Guilt
In the other man's safe deposit box ttie police found only the equivalent of
50,000 kronor. But they also found a receipt for payments in Portugal made in
Swedish kronor. Two items were involved, amounting together to 50,000 kronor.
The man admits that much, and several deposits cannot be proved although there
~ are suspicions. But that is also the only admission. Both deny that they
tiave dealt in narcotics.
The man with the declared capital accompanied his denial with an alibi. He
says that at the time of the narcotics shiPment in November, which the prose-
cutor blames primarily on him, he was not in Skane but in Spain, where he was
held because of a traffic accident. It was a collision that occurred on 8 No-
vember, and because the Swede did not have a green card the automobile was
held.
Afterwards the man tells how he took care of the affair in Spain with the help
of a woman, a receptionist at a hotel, as interpreter. He reports an interro-
~ation by the Guardia Civil [Civil Guard], a meeting with the other party, and
a settlement on 17 November in Barcelona. But also an appearance before the
examinin~ magistrate in Santa Colomne, who decided on 19 November that the
automobile should be released. Thus the man could not have received any ship-
~nent of drugs in Skane.
Prosecutor Josephson and Criminal Inspector ~�Jidlund, who speak fluent Spanish,
established to~ether with the Spanish criminal investigation police:
iJever Saw the Man
The examining magistrate, who was shown a photo of the Swede, declares that he
has never never seen the Swede before. From the court proceedings it appears
that the traffic accident did take place, that the Swede was summoned to a
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hearing on 16 November, but that he did not appear at the hearing. He showed
up in January 1982. But then the other party came forward and declared that
he had been paid by the Swede and~had no further claim.
. The other�party, a Spanish journalist, was also contacted during the investi-
gation. He confirmed the collision on 8 November and stated that he had been
offered on the spot and had accepted 150,000 pesetas in compensation. The
Swede had been very insistent on an immediate settlement. Since that time
. the journalist had not seen the Swede.
Afterwards the Swedish investigators and the Spanish criminalists visited the
hotel. It was learned that the director and his wife had owned the hotel for
5 years. On the other hand the female receptionist that the Swede had spoken
of did not exist. The hotel director backed that up with his payrolls, etc.
The whole Spanish iavestigation is now available in the form of copies of the
proceedings, attested by Spanish authorities.
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TURKEY
- ' BRIEFS
NARCOTICS SEIZEI3--Seventy kilograms of base morphine and 258 kilograms of
hashish from foreign countries have been seized in Van since the beginning
of the year. Van Gojrernor Behcet Bren has said that nine persens were
arrested in connection with the seized narcotics. [Text] [TA021640
Ankara Domestic Service in Turkish 2100 GMT 1 J~ 82]
BASE MORPHINE SEIZED--Diyarbakir (HHA)--Follo~ing the "lightning triangle"
operation carried out in the Diyarbakir, Hakkari and Van Provinces, 59
kilos of base morphine, worth 300 million liras in foreign markets, has
been seized and 14 persons have been detained. It has been learnt that
these 14 persons belong to an international network engaged in narcotics
smuggling to Europe and the United States through the Greek Cypriot sector
of Cyprus. A high-ranking official has stated that the names of the
members of this network will be disclosed in the next few days. [NC081621
Istanbul HURRIYET in Turkish 4 Jun 82 p 3 1~C]
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UNITED KINGDOM
LENIENT SENTEN~E FOR HEAD OF DRUG-SMUGGLING RING
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 15 May 82 p 3
[Article b;~ lan Henry~
- [Text ]
1~H.i~I.ET BEI{IR, 43, head The judge told them all that
of a hu;e dru~- the greedy people incolved in
smuggling ring, smiled at drug smuggling played for high
the Old Bailey yesterday stakes and had to receive
as the judge told kum that deterrent penalties.
because of his ill health, Overseas fortune
his 12-S~ear jail sentence
~vould run concurrently In fact, 8ekir, who lived in
~rith a 14year sentence a council flat at Portland Rise,
' imposed in January, also Finsbury Park, �is believed to
have amassed a personal for-
for drug smuggling. .tune in Canadian and American
.Tudqe U?iDERHILG, Q C. said banks as well as having invested
.he was showing " some degree ia the property market.
of leniency " in orderin; a con- ~ His gang handled upwards of
current sentence because of �38 ~3niliion worth oP heroin
- serious injuries Bekir received ~efore customs of6cers broke his
in a r.ar crash in Turkey E~hile ogeration. A Reet of cars, in,
on one of his srnuggling runs. c}uding Rolls�Royces, Jag~uars
Bekir, who used his North and'Roi~ers; bYought in an esCi~~
London pickle factorp as a mated �30 tai}lion worth of
front for his drugs dealings, heroin within a ~�ear. At least
was one oF seven gang mem� 1~1 trips were made before the
bers jailed for their part in gaag was smashed.
smuqgling heroin into Britain His sentence in January was
in cars though Dover. for consp~racy to smuggle
Three men were each jailed heroin throu~gh Heathrow.
for nine vears, two for six years .
and one for four years.
~ Jailed for nine years were Sedit Sonmez, 22,,clothing shop owner, of Riga
House, Shandy Street, Stepney; Bekir~s brother, Fuat Bekir, 26, clerk of
Antill Road, South Tottenham; and Rifat Halluma, 27, sausage maker, of Otway
Court, Granville Road, Finsbury Park.
Jailed for six year.s were Ibrahim Must"fa, 36, lorry driver, of Horle Walk,
- Lilford Road, Camberwell; and Sedat Ka~;~tepe, 22, cafe worker, of Thoresby
House, Clissold Road, Stoke Newin~~on.
Hilme *~fustakalli, 25, factory worker, of Gabriel Street, Forest Hill, was
jailed for four years.
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~ UNITED KINGDOM
BRIEFS
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AIRPORT SPOT FINES PLANNEI~-On-the-spot fines for travellers caught with
small amounts of cannabis at sea and airports are being planned by the
Customs and the Home Office in an experimental scheme. ~reliminary tests
are expected to begin at Heathrow by early next year, and will be adopted
at other ports if successful. The scheme will avoid costly court
appearances for travellers and busy customs inve~tigators and police. It
is believed that a 25 pounds' fine for possession of up to 10 grams of
cannabis has been discussed but final figures have yet to be agreed. The
scheme will involve travellers both arriving and departing from Heathrnw
and include internal and overseas travel. If po~3ession is denied then
_ existing laws will come into operation and trave~.ers will make a court
- appearance. Lawyers believe that it will only need a change in Customs
_ regulations to bring the scheme into being. [By John Weeks] [Text]
[London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 28 May 82 p 11]
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