DISCLAIMER
Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder
An official in a court outside Kuala Lumpur says a judge convicted and sentenced Khader Waheed on Tuesday.The court official gave no further details Wednesday. She declined to be named, citing protocol. Lawyers could not immediately be reached.National news agency Bernama reported that Waheed was convicted of smuggling more than three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of ketamine at an international airport outside Kuala Lumpur in January.Malaysia hands down mandatory death sentences for crimes including drug trafficking and murder. The government said recently...
Tony Mokbel, the (suddenly self-confessed) drug kingpin, once the master of a crime outfit turning over hundreds of millions of dollars, a star of the Underbelly saga, once acquitted of murdering Lewis Moran, another murder charge earlier dropped, a big man on the horse-racing punter circuit -why, he looked in the back of the court like nothing more than a jovial uncle you might happily have around for a barbecue.He nodded and smiled at reporters and a Purana Taskforce detective, and chatted amiably to three mates.Yesterday, Mokbel was fading back...
Saudi drug enforcement agencies have arrested 478 people involved in drug smuggling and seized drugs worth more than SR1.4 billion during the first quarter of this Hijrah year 1432, according to Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman of the Interior Ministry.He said the arrested smugglers included 241 Saudi nationals and 237 foreigners belonging to 23 different countries.The drug bust took place in three phases. In the first phase along officers seized 13.39 kg of heroin, 7.64 million narcotic pills, 3,862 kg of hashish and 51,362 kg of qat.In the...
28-year-old lorry driver from Slovenia has pleaded guilty to smuggling around three tonnes of hand rolling tobacco into the UK, after it was discovered in a lorry at Ramsgate.The revenue evaded on the tobacco was approximately £455,000. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) began an investigation after UK Border Agency (UKBA) officers stopped a lorry at the port, which had just arrived on a ferry from Ostend.During a search of the vehicle, officers discovered the tobacco amongst a load of apple juice.Dusan Tomic of Celje, Slovenia, was arrested, interviewed...
German police have uncovered a scandal involving Lufthansa flight attendants smuggling scrapped euro coins back from China and bringing them back into circulation, the Bild daily said Thursday.In what the paper said was the biggest scandal involving euro coins, once back in Germany the cabin crew would then exchange the coins for notes at the Bundesbank central bank.Police have carried out dawn raids at the Bundesbank and at firms in and around Frankfurt in western Germany including at Lufthansa, the country's flag carrier, Bild said, with six...
20 visitors to Addiewell Prison were caught trying to smuggle drugs, mobile phones or sim cards into the jail last year, new figures have shown.Prison guards caught 12 people with drugs during visits to inmates at the West Lothian jail, a fall on 2009 when 24 would-be smugglers were found.One person was caught trying to bring in a mobile phone while nine were found with sim cards. figures were released in an answer to a parliamentary question by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.At Saughton Prison in Edinburgh, 15 visitors were caught with drugs...
Police say a joint Canada-U.S. law enforcement unit has shut down an international smuggling and trafficking ring that has been sneaking prohibited weapons across the Alberta-Montana border.An RCMP spokesman says the Rocky Mountain Integrated Border Enforcement Team has recovered 14 prohibited guns and assorted prohibited weapons and arrested three individuals — two in Billings, Mont., and the other in Lethbridge, Alta.“Unfortunately there are people that are using both sides of Canada and the U.S. to commit crimes and we’ve been able to cohesively...
