JPRS ID: 9789 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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= JPRS L/9789
12 June 1981
~ Woridwide Re ort
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 26/81)
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JPRS L/9789
_ 12 June 1981
_ WORLDWIDE REPORT
_ NARCOTICS AN.D DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 26/81)
~ CONTENTS
ASIA
BURMA
Briefs
Opium Seizure at Mongmit 1
- PAKISTAN
Briefs
Opium and Charas Seized 2
Charas Worth 2 Crore Seiz~d 2
169.2 KG Charas Seized 2
Drug Peddlars Held 2
_ Bhang Seized, Charas Recovered 3
1,239 Grams Heroin Seized 3
Charas Worth 50 I,akh Seized 3
Opium, Hash Worth 4 Crore Seized 3
Charas Seizure at Airport 4
, SINGAPORE
Plan Worked Out To Fight Drug-Smuggling Network
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 9 May 81) 5
THAILAND
Drug Control Chief Planning Suppression Campaign
(Chon~khadikit; POST, 23 May 81) 6
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' S5 Kilos Heroin Seized ~
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LATIN AMERICA
AR(~EN'f INr1
Briefs
' Cocaine Seized 8
Drug Traffickers Arreste~ 8
BAHAMAS
Bail Refused, Fines Levied in Drug Smuggling Cases
(THE TRIBUNE, 7 May 81) 9
BARBADOS
Stiffer Drug Penalties Sought by A.*_torney Gener.al.Forde
(ADVOCATE-1VEWS, 9 May 81) 10
= BELI7,E
Briefs
Death of Drug Traffickers 12
BOLIVIA
Antidrug Youth Movement Asks UN .'~id .
(EL DIARIO, 8 May 81) 13
Nation's UN Representative Pleads for Emergency Fund
(PRESENCIA, 8 May 81) 14
- Garcia Meza: Confiscated Cocaine To Be Sold Abroad
(HOY, 8 May $1) 16
Government`s Narcotics Stand Ana:Lyzed
(Andres Soliz Rada; AFP, '?2 May 81) 17
- Briefs
Withdrawal From Antidrug :c"ight 19
Cocaine Factory 19
Drug Traffickers Killed 19
BRA7. I L
Shooting of Bolivian Unravels South American Drug Connection
_ (0 GLOBO, 1, 6 May 81) 20
Bolivian Shot in Boqueirau
- Arrest Confirms Drug Routca
- Former Policeman Possessing Cocaine Arrested in Botafogo
(0 GLOBO, 20 Apr 81) 23
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- Marih~?ana Trafficker Denies Tie tdith 'Red Falange' Group
_ (0 GLOBO, 24 Apr 81) 25
Firiefs
a Border Shootouts Denied 27
Cocaine Traffickers' Arrest 27
CHILE
Three Peruvians Arrested in Arica With Cocaine
(LA NACION, 22 Apr 81) 28
~ Cocaine Traffickers Arrested, Drug Confiscated
(LA TERCERA DE LA HORA, 17 Apr 81) 3Q
PANAMA
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Briefs
Largest-Ever Drug Haul 32
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Briefs
Deportation of Venezuelans 33
NEAR EAS1 AND NORTH AFRICA
_ IRAPJ
Narcotics Police Team Makes Big Heroin Find
(ENQELAB-E ESLAMI, 5 May 81) 34
Brief s
~ Heroin Smuggler's Arrest 36
Hamadan Drug Arrests 36
~ Firuzabad Poppy Plantations 36
, Pc~lice Narcotics Seizures 36
_ Opium Shipment Seized 36
Shiraz Drug Haul 36
Drug Seizures 37
Narcotics Discovery 37
Drug Executions 37
Drug Arrest 37
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SUB-SAHARAN aFRICA
7.~MBIA
- Reported Dagga Smugglers Arrested in London, Swaziland
(T'IMES OT' ZAMBI~,, 21 May 81) 38
WEST EUROPE
AUSTRIA
Briefs
Heroin Seized 39
- CANADA
Police Drug Wars Challenged for 'Cr2ating Tougher Pushers'
(Tim Padmore; THE VANCOWER SUN, 4 May 81) 40
Marihuana Smokers Find Least Leniency in Alberta
(Jeff Sallot; THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WEEKEND EDITION, 16 May 81)... 42
Marihuana Said Losing 'Prestige' With Young People
(Roswitha Guggi; THE CITIZEN, 11 May 81) 44
- 13riefs
- Heroin Charges 45
New Heroin Users Decrease 45
Montreal Drugs Seizure 45
D F. NMARK
Brief s
Drug Enforcement Measures Urged 46
- Court Stiffens Drug Sente~~ces 46
Heroin Traffickers Seized 46
= Reccrd Narcotics Deaths 47
_ Heroin Smuggler Jailed 47
� Court Feduces Heroin Sentences 47
= FINLAND

J' Police Arrest Members cf International Drugs Ring
(HELSINGIN SANOMAT, 7 May 81) 48
NORWAY
Justice Minister Skau Addresses Police on Drugs War
(Inge D. Hanssen; AFTENPOSTEN, 30 Apr 81) 50
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Police TY~roughout Country To Better Coordinate Drugs Fight
(Ulav Heltne; AFTENPOSTEN, 29 Apr 81) 52
Police Break Up Heroin Gang, Se~ze 30 Grams
(~FTCNPOSTEN, 29 Apr 81) 54
- Arctic Town Troubled by Increase in Narcotics Traffic
(Truls Fyhn Interview; AFTENPOSTEN, 14 Apr 81) 55
SWEDEN
- Hundreds Arrested in Country-Wide Narcotics Sweep
(Leif Dahlin; DAGENS NYHETER, 16 Apr 81) 59
Official Says Cut in Customs Fund To Hurt Drugs War
(DAGENS NYHETER, 12 Apr 81) 61
Police Official Reports Widespread Drug Use in Kiruna
(I.eif Dahlin; DAGENS NYHETER, 3 Apr 81) 63
vew ~tethod Used To Halt Drugs in Prisons Is Successful
(DAGENS NY:~ETER, 14 Apr 81) 65
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Customs Drugs Seizures Dror, 66
Scania Narcotics Traffic Up 66
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BURMA
BRIEFS
OPIUM SEIZURE AT MONGMIT--Mongmit, 1 May--A police party of M~ngmit People's
Police Force searched a truck bound for Mogok and ~eized five packets of opium
weighing three viss and 90 ticals belonging to Muang San Lwin and Maung San of
Mogaung-U village on 27 April. Police are taking action against Maung San Lwin
and Maung San under Section 6(b)(possession) of the Narcotic Drugs Law. On
_ information given by the two men, the police, in cooperation with Ward People's
Councillors, raided the house of Maung Khaung Daung of Lethokkon Ward and seized
an ~mpty tin with traces of opi~, some weights and K 1~,600 believed to be
proceeds from. the sale of opium. Po:lice are taking action against Maung Khaung
Daung under Section 10(b) (sale) and 11 (abetment) of the Narcotic Drugs Law.
[T ~~t] [Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE`9 DAILY in English 12 May 81 p 4]
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
~ OPTUI~t l~ND CHARAS SEIZED--Islamabad 6~1a
_ , y--The mobile squa~ No 1, Rawalpindi, today
seized over 240 kilograms of opium and 20 kilograms of cha.~.s valued at $s.5 crore
in international underground drug market near Sang Jani on Shahrah-i-Sher Shah and
held an alleged drug smuggler Gul Nawaz, son of Mir Nawaz resident of village
Marghaz District, Mardan. [Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English 7 May 81 p 8J
~
~.;1[ARAS WORTH 2 CRORE SEIZED--Charas worth over Rs 2 crore in the underworld market
w~is seized by the Pakistan Customs at Karachi airport yesterday. The drug was
- booked, for some Europedn country by a Lahore shipper, Messrs Zahid Trading Company,
as stainless steel cutlery, the value of which was shown Rs 174,960. The consign-
ment was ready to be loaded on an Amsterdam-bound foreign airlines. A strict watch
was kept on the consignment when the information was received that a Lahore shipper
fiad planned to export charas to some European country under the cover of regular
export. The Customs staff, which was posted at the apron area, suspected this
consignment shipped from Lahore for Amsterdam and took it over for examination.
7'he examination of the consignment resulted in the recovery of charas weighing
10 m~,unds from 18 out of 36 packages. The other 18 packages contained stainless
steel cutlery as shown in the manifest by the exporter. It is understood that a
Customs party has been dispatched to Lahore to arrest the exporter. Investigation
by tF~e Customs may result in another seizure of charas in the Lahore godown of the
shipper. [Text) [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English 25 May 81 p 1]
169.2 E~G CHARAS SEIZED--Contraband charas, worth Rs 9 lakh was seized by the police
Erom a hou:;e in Site on Thursday. The repo~ts said that the CIA staff, during in-
vestigation of a case, had a tip that there was charas in a house near the grave-
yard of Pathan Colony. After.� the house was raided, 169 kilos and 200 grams of
charas, was found from the h~~use of one Nosherwan. Nosherwan was later arrested by
the CLA and beoked for the offence. 7`he charas, the police said, could be estimated
~n lakhs of rupees. [Text] [Karachi MO:RNING NEWS in English 9 May 81 p 5]
DRUG P~DDLARS HE~,D--Shikarpur--Police have arrested three persons on charges of
postiessing opium and bhang from Khanpur village. The accused have been identified
as Kamal Shah, Talib Shah and Manzoor. Police seized 45 kilogram of bhang and 1,500
, ~;ram of opium from their possession.--PPI--[Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English
4 May 81 p S]
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BI~ANG SEIZED, CHARAS RECOVERID--Jacobabad--Saddar police raided a house in Railway
Colony and seized a large quantity of bhung and charas. Police have arrested one
Mohammad Siddiq in this connection.--Digri--CIA Police in a surprise raid in Tando
arrested Jan Mohammad for selling charas. Police have seized a large quantity of
charas and opium from his possession. [Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English
5 May 31 p 3]
1,239 GRAMS HEROIN SEIZID--Over 1,239 grams of superior quality heroin were seized
in a surprise raid by the Crime Investigating Agencj~ (CIA) yesterday. The heroin
was found in the possession of one Mohammad Tahir Khan, a permanent resident of
Sailkot who is stated to be a member of an international gang of narcotic smugglers.
- He has been arrested. The police also recQye~esitwo passports issued in his name.
He told an investigator that he had visited the Gulf States more than once. The
police are searching a lady who is believed to be a member of the same gang. She
frequently visited Western Europe and had been to the United States recently. The
police have sezied her passport. The CIA staff received a tip from the Narcotic
C~ntrol Board and a message from abroad about the entire operation which finally
led to his arrest. The contraband heroin was hidden in a half-pa.nt made of plastic
to deceive the electronic detectors in.stalled at modern airports. [Text] (Karachi
DAWN in English 20 May 81 p 10]
= CHARAS WORTH 50 LAKH SEIZED--Islamabad, 18 May--Charas worth over Rs. 50 lakhs was
_ today seized by the Customs Intelligence after a 50 minute hot chase and exchange
of fire between the smugglers and the Customs party at Shahrah-i~Islamabad. The
Customs high-ups nad been tipped that a gang of international smugglers will bring a
big quantity of CY:aras from Peshawar to smuggle it abroad via lslamabad. The
Customs party while on duty spotted two vehicles comin.g from the Peshawar side.
The drivers of the vehicles were signalled to stop for checking, but in return they
opened fire on the Customs party and sped away. The Customs party fired back and
started chssing the cars. After 15 minutes of hectic efforts the Customs party
succeeded in holding chree smugglers: Haji Hamesh, Zahir Gu1 and Abdul Karim and
recovered I77 kilogram of Charas from their possession. Further investigation is
~ in progress. [Text] [Karach DAWN in English 19 May 81 p 1]
OPIUM, HASH WORTH 4 CRORE SEIZID--Islamabad, 6 May--A large quantity of opium and
hashish worth over Rs. 4 crores was today intercepted by a customs party after a
20-minute chase of a Toyota car near "Sangjani," some 10 kilometres from here. The
- Customs authorities had been tipped that a considerable quantity of opium and hash-
ish would be brought from Peshawar by a Toyota car No 3315 and would be smuggled
abroad by a foreign airlines. A Custams party with necessary equipment was clan-
destinely sent to a specific spot following the tip. The party while on duty spotted
two caLs aprParing suddenly on the road. As tney came closer the car drivers were
signalled to stop for checking. The drivers of both cars did not apply brakes. In-
stead they sped away. As Customs mob~.le unit, which was already th~re to deal with
such tactics, however, succeeded in in.tercepting one of the cars. After a hot chase,
the driver of the other car made ~ood his escape. The Customs authorities arrested
driver Gul Nawaz of the first car and recovered several packets of narcotics from
his car. The packets when opened, showed 241 kilograms ~f opium, 40 kilograms of
hashish and many other small packets filled with other narcotics.--Over one maund
of charas valued in the international market at Rs. two crores was seized this after-
noon by the Peshawar Airnort Customs team from a passenger bound f or Karachi enroute
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to Saudi Arabia. One of the two accusE~d viz.Fazle Ghafoor was arrested minutes
before the baggage was going to be boar.ded on the PIA Boeing flight. to Karachi, The
other accused Zahir Shah made good his escape leaving behind his baggage as soon as
the Customs officers ordered them to halt and have their belongings checked. Fazle
~hafoor also tried to run away but wss chased by the Customs men who foiled his
attempt to disappear. He was trying to conceal himself under a car parked outaide
the t.erminal building from where the Ciistoms people�~took hold of him. [Text]
[Ke~achi DAWN in English 7 May 81 p 1]
CHARAS SEIZURE AT AIRPORT--Karachi Customs have seized 195 kilograms of charas,
2,764 grams of pearls and 696 grams of palladium valued at over Rs. 12 miZlion in
- four different raids. Four persons have been detained in this connection. The
contraband pearls and palladium in the form of chains were seized from two shops
lucated in Saddar following secret information. A Customs spokesman said that the
_ market value of the pearls and the precious metal was estimated at Rs. 1 million.
Three men from the Saddar shops were dt.tained while search for the real smugglers
is on. The trio is under intensive interroga.tion. Another raid near the eastern
coast of Karachi yielded 180 kgs of un~~laimed charas. The Customs said the ~ontra-
band was abandoned at a creek, apparen~ly, for shipment abroad. The value of the
charas was estimated at over Rs. 10 million. Efforts are afoot to trace the
"carriers" and the owner. Meanwhiie, the Flying Squad of the Drug Enforcement Cell
of the Customs caught one Heinze Rooby, holding a Netherlands passport, minutes be-
fore he was to board a flight for Copeuhagen at the Karachi Airport with 15 kgs of
charas hidden in his suitcase. The international market value of the contraband
~ was estimated at over Rs 1 million. Further investigation i~ in progress. [Text]
_ [Karachi DAWN in English 8 May 81 p 1]
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SINGAPORE
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PLAN WORKED OUT TO FIGHT DRUG-SMUGGLING NETWORK
Rangoon THE WORICING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 9 May 31 p 5
[Text] Singapore, 8 May--A top-secret inter-government
plan has been worked out to fight the multi-million-dollar
illicit drug-smuggling network operating between Thailand,
rialaysia and Singapore, it was repor'ted here today.
Crime sources said that the new strategy, worked out following signs of renewed
drug trafficking in the three countries following a bim?per opium harvest in the
source area, called for the coordinated roundir_g-up of suspected smuggling king-
pins.
A list of suspected bigtime traffickers has reportedly been compiled and circu-
late3 to top-level narcotics authorities in the three nations.
Earlier this week, a top-level team of Malaysian narcotics agents, led by the
Malaysian Criminal Investigation Department's Anti-Narcotic Division chief Dato
~ Mohamed Jaris Bin Haji Ali, came to Singapore for a one-day meeting with narco-
I tics officials here.
Their Thai counterparts will be briefed on the meeting which took stock of the
situation following the crippling of a multi-mi~lion-dollar drug-trafficking
syndicate last week. In what was se2n as a major breakthrough in the anti-drug
war, agents seized more than 50 kiiogrammes of raw opium in Kuala Lu*.npur and about
- 15 kilo~ in Singapore.
'lhe STRAITS TIMES said today that the Malaysian Government, which is deeply
concerned with the escalating drug menance in the country, had decided to wage
an all-out war against drug traffickin~ and abuse.
Tlie paper said the Anti-Narcotics Division of tLe Malaysian CID was being
strengthened and would be headed by a director-general who would have regional
commanders posted in the states to coordinate enforcement action.
'The division, with its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, would also be expanded
from 200 to 2,000 agents.
- ~tore rehabilitation centres would also be built by the Social [delfare Ministry.
The opium harvest .in the source area is reported to be exceptionally good this
- year, abotit four times more than last year's 200 tons. NAB/AFP
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_ THAILANll
_ DRUG CONTROL CHIEF PLANNING SUPPRESSION CAMPAIGN
" BK230736 Bangkok POST in English 23 May 81 p 20
_ [By the Chongkhadikit]
[Text] Deputy Prime Minister Prachuap Suntharangkun will go to Chiang Mai today to start
a concerted campaign against the flow out of the "Golden Triangle" of heroin from a record
crop of 600 tons of opium. As chairman of the Narcotics Control Board, he will later visit
Burma, Malaysia and Singapore to obtain close cooperation in an intensified drive. He is
prepared to combat all forces producing, manufacturing, transporting and trading in
narcotic drugs.
Among suspected groups are minorities from Burma like the Shan United Army of Chang Chi-f.u
alias Khun Sa and certain sections of the Kuomintang Army irregulars whose bases like that
at Tham Ngop in Chiang rtai are central distribution points on drug transit routes.
Ceneral Prachuap is expected to move against elements from the Supreme Command stationed
in the north alleged to have been involved in the narcotics trade.
,Jliile in Chiang Mai, he wants to find out why the superiors of Police Colonel
Niranawit Ayawuthikun, superintendent of the Logistics Unit, Zone 3 Provincial Police,
Viad not acted on the warrant for his arrest for alleged connection in the case of the
recently seized 58 kilogrammes of heroin base at Liberty Hotel in Bangkok.
; With Burmese cooperation, General Arachuap hopes to do something about the dozen or
so heroin refineries along the common border. The opium from the poppy crop in the
"Golden Triangle'L-areas bordered by Thailand, Burma and Laos--is transformed into heroin
- to facilitate smuggiing. He has also taicei~ 5tepst~ control the flow of acetic anhydride,
a chemical viral for heroin manufac~ure, into the country.
He believes that without the Burmese Government's cooperation nothing effective could
be done about halting the narcotics trade. When he goes to Rangoon, he will do so
~aith the reputation of having been responsible for the capture of Lo Hsing-han,
_ then opium kingpin of the "Golden Triangle," and handing him over to the Burmese
authorities. General Prachuap was then director-general of police. The Burmese Govern-
ment was interested in Lo as a major rebe~l leader and he was sentenced to a long
prison term from which he was only recently released.
Tn ~ialaysia and Singapore, General Prachunp will discuss with their officials ways
and mcans of intercepting narcotics en route through their territory to the United
States, Europe and other inarkets.
General Prachuap believes that he has an efficient, honest and tough assistant in
, Police Major-General Phao Sarasin, secretary-general of the office of the Narcotics
- Control Board.
IJhile in the north, he will inspect the c~op substitution projects assisted by the
United Nations and designed to encourage the hilltribes to stop growing poppies. The
bumper crop this year is reported to be successfui, due to favourable whether conditions.
~tost ~f th~ "Golden Triangle" opium will