SERNIC Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sernic/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 SERNIC Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sernic/ 32 32 Mozambique authorities seize more than tonne of heroin bound for Europe and South Africa https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/mozambique-authorities-seize-more-than-tonne-of-heroin-bound-for-europe-and-south-africa/ Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/mozambique-authorities-seize-more-than-tonne-of-heroin-bound-for-europe-and-south-africa/ Mozambique police and navy has seized more than a tonne of heroin off the coast of Cabo Delgado. It come from Afghanistan and was en route to Europe and South Africa. This is the first raid on heroin traffic off the Mozambique coast in more than 20 years. It was undertaken by the navy and […]

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]]> Mozambique police and navy has seized more than a tonne of heroin off the coast of Cabo Delgado.

It come from Afghanistan and was en route to Europe and South Africa.

This is the first raid on heroin traffic off the Mozambique coast in more than 20 years.

It was undertaken by the navy and the national criminal investigation service known SERNIC.

The traffickers saw the authorities approaching and set fire to the wooden dhow carrying the drug and threw themselves into the sea 50 kms off Cabo Delgado

12 of them were saved and arrested and three drowned.

About 40 tonnes of heroin reaches Mozambique from Aghanistan every year.

From there it is shipped to Europe or taken by road to Johannesburg. 

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