Inside A Narco State
By day, Guinea-Bissau looks like the impoverished country it is. Most people cannot afford a bus fare, never mind a four-wheel drive. There is no mains electricity. Water supplies are restricted to the...
View ArticleMoroccan and Spanish Nab $200 Million Cocaine
Spanish and Moroccan police seized 5,677 pounds of cocaine and arrested 24 suspects in what officials said was a blow against one of the main drug-trafficking organisations operating in Europe, Africa,...
View ArticleNew Global Players - West Africa Crime Networks
Organised crime in West Africa in its contemporary form is generally perceived to have emerged in the 1970s, with the oil price rises of that decade, the delinking of the dollar from gold, high...
View ArticleLos Zetas & Siniola Cartels Move Coke Thru Africa
The Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas are expanding their operations and gaining territory in Asia and Africa, Their goal is to control shipping ports in Asia and Africa which will allow them to create new...
View ArticleMoney Laundering Strategies
How The Drug Money Flows Into The financial SystemTwo boats pull into the docks. The first boat is full of a white agricultural product grown in Latin America called sugar. The owner of the cargo,...
View ArticleTanzania Shkuba Cartel Boss
Until February 2014 when he was arrested, Ali Khatib Haji alias Shkuba, 46, was the most wanted and most powerful drug kingpin in Tanzania.A man with deep pockets who was credited with leading a...
View ArticleMozambique New Cocaine Hub For Mexican Cartels
A recent report has highlighted the increasing role of the East African nation Mozambique in the international drug trade, adding weight to warnings that the influence of Latin American criminals in...
View ArticleNigeria Super Meth Lab
Nigerian drug agents arrested four Mexicans who were allegedly helping build a "super-lab" capable of producing billions of dollars' worth of methamphetamine, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency...
View ArticleEric ''Mika'' Walter Amegan and the Cocaine Business
Mr UntouchableEric ''Mika'' Walter Amegan In 2007, Nouakchott, Mauritania the police intercepted a minibus. On board a cargo of more than 760 kilograms of cocaine. In the vehicle, two Spanish: Miguel...
View ArticleEurozone Cocaine Routes
A new report provides insight into how traffickers move cocaine to the lucrative European market, including the key trafficking routes and smuggling techniques criminal groups have adopted to skirt...
View ArticleNarco Corruption in Africa
Lessons from Latin America and the CaribbeanThe dollar value of cocaine trafficked through West Africa has risen rapidly and surpassed all other illicit commodities smuggled in the subregion.Experience...
View ArticleU.S. Working With The Sinaloa Cartel?
According to an article by the US publication Business Insider a senior Mexican diplomat says America pretty much invited the Sinaloa Drug Cartel across the border.Leaked emails from the private U.S....
View ArticleKenya Son of Scottish aristocrat charged with trafficking 100kg
The son of a Scottish aristocrat has been charged in Kenya with trafficking nearly 100kg of cocaine in one of the country’s biggest drugs seizures in recent years.Jack Marrian, 30, who attended a...
View ArticleMauritania One Ton of Cocaine Seized at Port
A coordinated network assault by state security forces on Sunday led to the seizure of one ton of cocaine at Nouadhibou sea port, reports say.Army coast guards, military police and police forces...
View ArticleAfrica Rehab Project
West Africa is now the primary transit point for cocaine and other drugs trafficked from South America to Europe and North America. Recent developments show that West African criminal networks are...
View ArticleCameroon Seizes 100kg of Meth
On 13 October 2016, the Cameroonian customs seized a cargo of 100 kg of methamphetamines at the Douala International Airport, we learned from official sources. The cargo packaged in 20 boxes belonging...
View ArticleMartinique Record 2.5 Tons of Cocaine
French customs officers have seized more than two and a half tons of cocaine off the French Caribbean island of Martinique in two separate anti-drug operations last week.In the first operation, which...
View ArticleTangier 30 kg of cocaine and 62,000 E-pills seized
During a control operation, the customs services seized 62,660 psychotropic pills and 29 kg and 92 grams of cocaine hidden in the luggage of a Moroccan expatriate, it said, adding that the drug...
View ArticleTanzania Canadian Warship Seize 130kg Heroin
Combined Maritime Forces Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Regina has seized over 130kg of high-grade heroin off the coast of Tanzania.The illicit narcotics were seized after HMCS Regina intercepted...
View ArticleSomalia Australian navy seizes $130 million of H
A crew from an Australian warship has seized more than 400kg of heroin from pirate smugglers off the Somalia coast during a daring raid.The drugs were found on a vessel when navy personnel from HMAS...
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