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Govt Officials among Six Convicted of Drug Trade
[Quqnoos] Six Afghans, including an army officer and a soldier, have been convicted of drug trading and sentenced to up to 16 years of imprisonment The Afghan servicemen were arrested in Kabul's neighbouring southern province of Wardak, where they they facilitated a drug deal, according to a court statement. "They were each convicted and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by an Appeal Court of an Afghan Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF)," the statement further noted. A local farmer, a driver and two others were also found guilty by the court for smuggling heroin and opium into different parts of Afghanistan -- the largest drug producing country in the world. The drug traffickers were sentenced to between 8 and 16 years imprisonment, according to the CJTF statement. Experts have criticised the counter-narcotics efforts of the Afghan government and the international community over the past seven years, as Afghanistan still remains the top of the largest drug producing countries. The Afghan court has sentenced at least 82 people for smuggling drugs and facilitating drug trade over the past four months.
Posted by: Fred 2009-08-14 |
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