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Narcotics Control Bureau arrests two Sri Lankan nationals in major operation
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The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has conducted a major operation culminating in the arrest of two Sri Lankan nationals who were allegedly key players of an international drug trafficking syndicate having links in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Australia.
The accused, identified as M.M.M. Nawas and Mohamed Afnas, had been operating from Chennai under assumed identities. “They were controlling mid-sea pick-up and delivery of narcotic drugs from Pakistani and Iranian vessels,” said the agency spokesperson, K.P.S. Malhotra. They had fled Sri Lanka following a crackdown by the enforcement agencies there.
MANILA, Jan. 22 - On January 22, U.S. Embassy in the Philippines’ Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Director Kelia Cummins joined Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary Ernesto Adobo, Jr., DENR Biodiversity Management Bureau Officer-in-Charge and Assistant Director Amelita DJ. Ortiz, and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global Programme for Combatting Wildlife and Forest Crime Regional Coordinator Giovanni Broussard for the virtual turnover of 400 Rapid Reference Guides (RRG) and 30 electronic tablets to authorities for use in the investigation and prosecution of wildlife crime in the Philippines.
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Director Kelia Cummins, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global Programme for Combatting Wildlife Coordinator Giovanni Broussard, and other stakeholders at the virtual turnover of 400 RRG on January 22.
Heroin worth Rs 1,000 cr, mid-sea ops â how NCB unearthed Pakistan, Sri Lanka-based syndicate
NCB arrests 2 Sri Lankan nationals, says the two were controlling mid-sea pick-up and delivery of narcotic drugs from Pakistani and Iranian vessels in Indian waters.
Ananya Bhardwaj 22 January, 2021 7:05 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested two Sri Lankan nationals for their alleged role in drug trafficking syndicate based out of Pakistan and Sri Lanka and has seized 100 kg heroin worth Rs 1,000 crore in the international market â the highest ever.
The two men â M.M.M. Nawas and Mohamed Afnas, who were arrested from Chennai Thursday â allegedly played a key role in the drug syndicate that also has âtentacles in Afghanistan, Iran, Maldives and Australiaâ, K.P.S. Malhotra, Deputy Director (Operations), NCB, told ThePrint.
Nigeria emerges as Africa’s primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales
by Ashoka Mukpo on 21 January 2021
Increased political buy-in for law enforcement and interdiction efforts at ports in East Africa have pushed wildlife smuggling westward to Nigeria.
Between 1998 and 2014, the top two countries associated with ivory seizures were Tanzania and Kenya. Since 2014, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo have overtaken them.
Corruption at the ports, the involvement of influential politicians, and rural poverty make Nigeria an attractive waypoint for smugglers.
When Singaporean customs officials opened a shipping container en route to Vietnam from Nigeria on April 3, 2019, they found piles of canvas sacks stuffed full of dusty, dried flakes. Packed along with nearly 180 kilograms (400 pounds) of carved elephant ivory, the flakes turned out to be pangolin scales 12.9 metric tons of them. It was the largest seizure of pangolin scales ever recorded, gathered by killing a