Nigerian controls drug trade

Nigerian controls drug trade

JAKARTA: Police have managed to uncover an international drug
trafficking network controlled by Nigerian inmate, Nwaolisa
Hansen Anthony, who is serving a life sentence at Cipinang
Penitentiary in East Jakarta.

Chief of the drug abuse division of the Jakarta Police
Detectives, Carlo Brix Tewu said on Monday that Anthony
controlled the drug network using his cellular phone to contact
his men, even in Pakistan.

Each week, Carlo said, Anthony's men would smuggle between
four kilograms and five kilograms of heroin into the country
through three or four couriers who swallowed the packages of
heroin to thwart security checks at the airport.

According to Carlo, the heroin was smuggled into Jakarta via
Polonia Airport in the North Sumatra capital of Medan, and the
Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali.

Police have arrested six members of the network in Jakarta:
Nengsih, Fanny Cynthia alias Maya, Triyatmi alias Tri, George
Obinya alias Andy, Chukwuka Sunday Thomas alias Mature alias
Macho. --JP