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Mexico's army seized nearly $15.4 million from the organization of the country's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, officials said Tuesday, marking a rare financial blow to cartels. The seizure was revealed the same day U.S. border police revealed the third discovery in a week of drug-smuggling tunnel under the border with Mexico. In Mexico, the military said it found the cash was found in a vehicle on Nov. 18 in the northern border city of Tijuana and that it was linked to Guzman's operations. The haul marked the second-largest...
Smugglers busted with heroin haulDubai cops seize huge $18m stash bound for Europe in Jebel Ali Port Heroin with an estimated street value of Dhs65 million ($18m) has been discovered in Dubai on its way to Europe. Dubai Police foiled a plot to smuggle 130kg of the drug in wooden palettes through Jebel Ali Port. General Abdul Jalil Mahdi, head of the Anti-Narcotic Department in Dubai Police, said: “We received information from outside the country that a huge drug smuggling operation heading to Europe was coming through Dubai, hidden in a container...
In a landmark verdict by the Khorfakan Criminal Court on Monday, eight Iranians and two Pakistanis were sentenced to death for smuggling 2.5 tonnes of hashish.Another Iranian accused was served with 10 years in jail followed by deportation. Three others, aged 11, 14 and 17, also Iranians, were ordered to be deported. They are the sons of the kingpin of the gang and owner of the boat. The verdict is open to appeal in 15 days, a source at the court told Khaleej Times.Presiding judge of the three-bench court Ahmed Saeed Al Naqabi ordered the confiscation...
The first passenger, H.C.S., was an African woman travelling to Kuala Lumpur via Dubai airport with 2,590 grams of methamphetamine that she was hiding in the lining of her suitcase.Malaysian authorities thanked Dubai Police for sending information about her which led to her arrest while she was trying to smuggle the drugs into Malaysia. Police had noticed she looked scared and confused during her transit stop.A European who was transiting through Dubai airport was reported to the Kenyan authorities for acting suspiciously during his stay at the...
Alfredo Aleman Narvaez, aka El Comandante Aleman, a leader of 'Los Zezas' drug cartel in San Luis Potosi state, was arrested by the army in Fresnillo as a result of a military intelligence operation. Mexico City, Mexico. 17th November 2...
Home Secretary Theresa May (Pic:PA)THERESA May was fighting for her job last night after damning new documents fuelled the scandal of lax security at our borders.Advertisement >>Leaked emails showed that thousands of private jet passengers were allowed into the UK without going through immigration or customs.They also revealed the Home Secretary relaxed checks at airports on at least 2,500 occasions this summer.And the Mirror can reveal passport...
Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted drugs baron who controlled the drug trade in South America’s biggest favela with fear and intimidation for 30 years has been arrested after a high risk undercover police operation. Photo: APAntonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, known as Nem, was captured after being discovered hiding in the boot of a car stopped at a roadblock, as police surrounded the sprawling Rocinha shanty-town in an attempt finally to wrest...
Under-pressure staff are said to be relying on false data and "massaging" official figures to mask the full extent of the immigration chaos at Britain's borders. The whistleblower, a middle manager who does not want to be identified, said UKBA staff lack the resources to track down asylum seekers. As a result, it is claimed, complicated immigration cases are being abandoned to save time, while detention centres employ a "one in, one out" policy that sees low-risk detainees released to allow more dangerous foreigners to be locked up. The whistleblower...
While one former Indo-Canadian border guard got five years for his part in a drug smuggling ring – another is currently on trial for his part in a different operation that brought millions of illicit drugs into Canada. Baljinder Kandola, a former Canadian border guard who was charged with being part of a cocaine-smuggling ring, was at a loss for words during much of his testimony on Tuesday to explain why he risked so much to help a millionaire auto-parts importer for nothing in return. Under cross-examination by Crown counsel James Torrance,...
Phil Stirling, shown here in 2000, told U.S. authorities there’s nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking, and said the States should mind its own business.Photograph by: RIC ERNST, PNGA self-described drug smuggler who walked away unscathed from two high-profile drug busts in B.C. has landed himself in hot water south of the border.John Philip Stirling, 60, is in a Florida jail after U.S. authorities allegedly seized 400 kilograms of cocaine...
