カテゴリー: Drugs trade
Alleged trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang escaped via a tunnel in Mexico before flying to Cuba and reportedly Russia but now finds himself on trial in a Brooklyn courtroomThe China-Mexico fentanyl pipeline: increasingly sophisticated and deadlyLike so many gre…
Zhi Dong Zhang, known by alias ‘Brother Wang’, is also wanted by US and has alleged ties to Mexican drug cartelsCuba has arrested an alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin who escaped custody in Mexico in July and is also wanted by the US, Mexican security s…
Lindsay Sandiford, 68, has been on death row in Indonesia since 2012, after authorities found 3.8kg of cocaine in her suitcaseA British woman will avoid execution for drug smuggling in Indonesia under an agreement between the two nations to repatriate …
Three charges against Duterte stem from his years-long campaign against drug users and dealers that rights groups say killed thousandsInternational criminal court prosecutors have charged the former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte with thr…
Bella Culley, 18, was arrested in Tbilisi on Tuesday on suspicion of illegally buying, possessing and importing large quantities of narcotics including marijuana. The teenager’s family had thought she had gone missing while travelling in Thailand becau…
For years many brave Filipinos have worked tirelessly, in and out of the spotlight, to expose the horrors of the deadly campaignFacing charges of crimes against humanity and hauled off to The Hague, the arrest this week of the former Philippine preside…
Former president was surrendered to The Hague amid a row between his family and that of the current presidentFew expected things to move so quickly. Supporters of the Philippines’ former president Rodrigo Duterte barely had time to protest before he wa…
Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for criminal syndicates operating online scam operations and tricking thousands into enslaved workAbout 7,000 people have been rescued from illegal call centre operations in Myanmar and were waiting to be t…
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Ex-president says he kept criminals to kill other criminals while mayor and offers no apologies at hearing investigating crackdownsThe former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has told a senate inquiry into drug killings under his leadership that he…
Heroin use has risen sharply across the country but in Pretoria, a programme of methadone and support is successfully helping people regain their livesIn the centre of the South African city of Pretoria, dozens of people mill around a dusty patch of la…
Justice department charges 24 defendants and says long investigation reveals links between Mexico’s Sinaloa gang and ChinaRevealed: how Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel has created a global network to rule the fentanyl tradeThe US justice department has accused…
Beijing says talks productive as US calls for help to fight synthetic opioid crisis responsible for hundreds of thousands of deathsExpert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisisAmerican and Chinese officials met on Tuesday to discuss joint effort…
Opium production in Afghanistan slumped an estimated 95%, according to a UN reportMyanmar became the world’s biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government’s crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations …
Under deal, China will go after chemical companies to halt flow of fentanyl while US will lift restrictions on forensic police instituteJoe Biden and Xi Jinping are set to announce an agreement for China to crack down on the manufacture and export of f…