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Police say they seized $4 million worth of the drugs during raids in three Sydney suburbs yesterday, but the group had planned to import hundreds of kilograms of drugs.A total of 2 kilograms of ice and 2.1 kilograms of heroin were allegedly found at the properties in the Sydney CBD and at Cabramatta and Hurstville, in the city's south-west and south.Police say the men travelled to Australia for the express purpose of setting up a trafficking network in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast.Officers from the NSW Asian Crime Squad pounced yesterday...
Turkish police have seized large amount of hashish in the frames of an operation carried out in Istanbul, the Anatolian Agency informs.It is believed that the drug haul has been imported from Diyarbakir.Three people have been arrested, charged with drug trafficki...
A man in his 30s has been sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling around four kilogrammes of amphetamines to Iceland. He is charged with having smuggled the drugs to the country with intent to sell and distribute them.Benedikt Palmason took possession of the amphetamines from an unknown person in Rotterdam, Netherlands on the 6th June and took them to Iceland aboard the Eimskip container ship, Godafoss. The charged man was a crew member on board the ship, DV reported.He hid the drugs in front of the back seat of a car which was being transported;...
The man, who was executed on July 30, was identified only by the initials H.D.The report in the "Kayhan" newspaper did not say whether the execution was carried out in public.The latest hanging brings to 173 the number of executions reported in Iran so far this year, according to media and official reports.Iranian media reported 179 hangings last year, but international human rights groups say the actual number was much higher -- ranking the Islamic republic second only to China in the number of people it executed.Tehran says the death penalty...
