Sunday, May 10, 2009

In Yemen, burnt drugs for 83 million dollars.

In Yemen, by a decision of the authorities destroyed four tonnes of hashish and six million tablets of amphetamine. As the AFP, the total value of drugs is estimated at 83 million dollars. Specified that banned substances had been burned.
The representative of the Yemeni prosecutor's office told reporters that the destruction of the drugs were seized over the past 16 months. He said that drug traffickers use Yemen as a transit point through which they are transporting their goods to the Gulf countries, mostly in Saudi Arabia.
The representative also told prosecutors that in cases involving the destruction of drugs, was arrested about 75 people. Part of the drug traffickers have tried: they received prison terms ranging from 25 years to life imprisonment
AFP also reports that in March, was sentenced the death penalty Pakistanis recognized Yemeni court convicted of drug trafficking. 14 podelnikov got him to 25 years in prison each.

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