South Africa is playing a pivotal role in the global drug trafficking trade. Fruit-drug law enforcement interceptions again highlight the crafty methods traffickers are using to push huge amounts of drugs around the world – and how South Africa is ...
South Africa’s prominence in trafficking networks that involve drugs concealed in containers of fruit moving between countries is becoming more apparent.
These fruit-drug interceptions again highlight the crafty methods traffickers are using to push huge amounts of drugs around the world – and how South Africa is central to these networks. The online platform Maritime Fairtrade states that “one of the main reasons drug traffickers favour concealing their illicit cargo inside shipments of perishable goods is [that] items such asAt the end of November, Spain’s Civil Guard announced it had seized more than 5.5 tonnes of cocaine at the Port of Valencia in itsThis linked to investigations launched in 2021 into criminals using fruit and vegetable imports to disguise drug consignments.
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