Officers of the Regional Service for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking in Annaba, a specialised police branch targeting unlawful drug trading, dismantled an organised criminal network of five people involved in dealing and seized a considerable quantity of Indian hemp together with property suspected of links to the criminal activity.[1] Algeria’s police statement on the same Annaba operation says its officers toppled an organised network that specialised in dealing drugs.[2] A second outlet likewise says the regional service toppled the five-member organised network specialising in drug dealing.[3]
According to the available information, the operation seized 14 kilograms and 175 grams of drugs identified as Indian hemp, which is cannabis, in addition to recovering a sum of money and seizing two motorbikes and three vehicles.[1] The police statement gives the identical haul of 14 kilograms and 175 grams of Indian hemp, together with the recovered money, the two motorbikes and the three vehicles.[2]
The accounts present the operation as part of the continuing security efforts to combat illicit drug trafficking and to confront the organised criminal networks active in that trade.[1] Indian hemp is the reports’ term for the cannabis seized in this Annaba case.[3]
