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Mar 23, 2010
Drug gangs lure women
W. African syndicates luring women to act as drug mules
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West African syndicates from across the Indian Ocean have become a challenge for drug enforcement agencies in the region. -- PHOTO: ICA
WEST African syndicates from across the Indian Ocean have become a challenge for drug enforcement agencies in the region. In recent years, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has sounded the alarm in Singapore over these syndicates, whose members seduce women so they will act as their drug mules.
Last year alone, they duped 15 women into drug trafficking after tempting them with promises of love and money. Only three women were caught for drug running in 2008. Women in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines also have not been spared. In Manila last month, officers arrested three men - believed to be West African syndicate members - for recruiting Filipinos to work as drug couriers, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The fight against West African organised crime syndicates is a key issue which has drawn more than 20 narcotics officials from eight Asean countries here for a training course that started yesterday. The delegates, who include those from Laos and Cambodia, are here for a five-day programme that is being conducted by trainers from the Australian Federal Police and the CNB.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Mar 23, 2010
Drug gangs lure women
W. African syndicates luring women to act as drug mules
<!-- by line --> By Teh Joo Lin
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West African syndicates from across the Indian Ocean have become a challenge for drug enforcement agencies in the region. -- PHOTO: ICA
WEST African syndicates from across the Indian Ocean have become a challenge for drug enforcement agencies in the region. In recent years, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has sounded the alarm in Singapore over these syndicates, whose members seduce women so they will act as their drug mules.
Last year alone, they duped 15 women into drug trafficking after tempting them with promises of love and money. Only three women were caught for drug running in 2008. Women in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines also have not been spared. In Manila last month, officers arrested three men - believed to be West African syndicate members - for recruiting Filipinos to work as drug couriers, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The fight against West African organised crime syndicates is a key issue which has drawn more than 20 narcotics officials from eight Asean countries here for a training course that started yesterday. The delegates, who include those from Laos and Cambodia, are here for a five-day programme that is being conducted by trainers from the Australian Federal Police and the CNB.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
[email protected]
