Notable held as 119 kg of cannabis seized in Moroni
Police in Moroni seized 119 kg of cannabis and detained the parcel's owner, described as a notable, about two days before 8 November 2012. Officers said the arrest followed a denunciation by a woman who had trusted him to sell goats on her behalf.
Police in Moroni detained a man described as a notable who owned a parcel
containing 119 kg of cannabis.[1]The seizure and detention took place about
two days before 8 November 2012.[1]The case was handled by the national
police anti-drug brigade operating at the port of Moroni.[1]Officers said the
arrest followed a denunciation by an African woman who had entrusted the man
with goats to sell.[1]They said she turned him in after he failed to hand
over the sale money.[1]
Officers recorded the seizure as 119 kg of cannabis.[1]They said traffickers
hide cannabis in coconuts, chips, oil cans, freezers and even doors to evade
checks.[1]The brigade officers said they mostly rely on intuition and tips
from accomplices.[1]They said a dispute over keeping a market alone often
leads one trafficker to denounce another.[1]
Officers described the brigade as having neither sniffer dogs nor X-ray imaging
equipment nor detectors.[1]They said the officers keep working empty-handed,
relying on the luck of the day.[1]Officers warned that in view of large
seizures, the Comoros risked becoming a transit hub for drug traffic between
East Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius.[1]
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Cannabis reported as the 119 kg incinerated at the court that week.Photo details
The article is dated 8 November 2012 and says two days after the seizure, so 6 November 2012 is used as the incident date.
The exact seizure site is not stated, so Moroni is used as the most precise named place from the port brigade context.
The full name of the detained parcel owner was not published, only described as a notable.
No court outcome for the detained owner was published.
The same article cites a three-year total of more than 2000 kg at Moroni port, a 185 kg seizure in 2006 and an 81.7 kg bribe attempt, left here as separate statistics or events and not counted in figures.
Only one accessible source for this seizure was found after searching in French and English.
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Comoros' National Gendarmerie seized 71 kg of cannabis at the fishermen's quay in Magoudjou, Moroni, on 27 July 2021 and detained two people described as members of the network. The gendarmerie said the investigation was continuing and the drug would go to the prosecutor for incineration.
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