Three held as 200 kg of cannabis seized in Antsobolo, Antananarivo
Police stopped a car in Antsobolo, central Antananarivo, on 26 April 2011 and seized about 200 kg of cannabis packed in two sacks, detaining the three occupants. The driver told the Anosy court that a sack of about 100 kg was worth 500,000 ariary, around 185 euros.
Police in Antananarivo stopped a car in Antsobolo, in the centre of the capital,
on Tuesday 26 April 2011 as the traffickers were about to deliver their
merchandise to Andranomena, on the Ivato airport road.[1]The three occupants
of the car were detained, the vehicle was impounded and the cannabis, packed in
two large sacks, was seized.[1]
The newspaper’s page title gives the haul as 200 kg of cannabis.[1]
The driver told the Anosy court, where the three appeared the day before the
article was published, that one sack weighing about 100 kg was worth 500,000
ariary, about 185 euros.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no figure for the number of plants involved, and none could be expected in a seizure of dried cannabis.
The total weight is given as approximately 200 kg in the text; only the single sack's about 100 kg and its 500,000 ariary value are stated separately.
The 500,000 ariary (about 185 euros) valuation covers one roughly 100 kg sack, as stated by the driver, not the whole haul, so it is recorded as the value of that sack.
The names of the three detained men and the charges brought against them were not published.
The article reports the deferral before the Anosy court but no ruling, sentence or remand decision.
A Midi Madagasikara account of the same seizure appears on AllAfrica but could not be opened, so this report relies on a single source.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in LINFO.re: The sacks held about 200 kg of cannabis in total.
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