10 Tons of Pakistani Hash, 2007 Drug Bust Figures
wow, 20,000 lbs, good for the Coast Guard, that guy better be careful.
So a guick search indicates two tons of hashish has a street value of about USD 10 million, so this is about 50 million dollars US in street value. This is a big bust. Who funded the transaction and what of the rest of the network beyond transport? The money laundering survey found police investigation as a science is not well understood in Yemen. Law enforcement often waits for someone to hand them case which they forward to the prosecutor, according to the survey. But the Coast Guard is doing well after all the training it seems.
Yemeni Coast Guard forces seized a Pakistani ship carrying on board 10 tons of hashish. Brigadier Ali Rase, Head of the Coast Guard told “26 September.Net” that the ship seized yesterday in about 35 kilometers off Mukalla’s coast.
He noted that the crew of Pakistani ship 16 people captured for conducting investigations and taking law measures in the Security Department in Mukalla.
In addition to that during the last month the Coast Guard forces seized Iranian ship carrying two tons of drugs with the crew, which carries the Iranian and Pakistani nationalities.
On Thursday, a source indicated that Yemeni Coast Guard forces in collaboration with military ships belonging to coalition forces positioned in the Arab Sea managed to seize a Pakistani ship (Makran) boarding 10 ton of drugs.
The source added that the authorities conducted an investigation with the ship crew in preparations for completing other legal measures.
Yemen has turned into a transit country for drugs exported to Gulf countries, and the seized quantities of drugs reached by the end of 2007 115,000 kg of manufactured Hashish, 792,000 drug pills, 5 ton of Hashish and 2 kg of Heroin.
Security authorities arrested 225 smugglers in 2007 in 40 drug crimes, according to the General Administration for Fighting Drugs at the Ministry of Interior.
The administration also indicated that the number of those accused of smuggling drugs rose from 81 in 2005 to 204 in 2007. Similarly, the number of the non-Yemenis rose from 5 to 22.
In return, Yemeni security authorities face great hurdles in monitoring and controlling drug traders who use the country as a transit, especially when the country has a long coastline stretching for over 2,000 km.
