ANB seizes 30 kg of herbal cannabis at Pointe Larue warehouse
The Anti-Narcotics Bureau seized about 30 kg of suspected herbal cannabis, with 96 g of heroin, at a warehouse in the Pointe Larue district of Mahé on 26 December 2020. No one was arrested; the Bureau opened an investigation into the find.
Anti-Narcotics Bureau officers seized about 30 kg of suspected herbal cannabis
at a warehouse in the Pointe Larue district of eastern Mahé on Saturday 26
December 2020.[1][2]The Bureau had gone to view suspected drugs stored at
the warehouse, which one account describes as a workshop, and recovered the
cannabis together with 96 g of heroin.[1][2][3]
No one was arrested during the seizure, and the ANB opened an investigation
instead.[1][2]The Bureau called it the second-biggest herbal cannabis
seizure of the year, after 180 kg intercepted from a yacht in July whose
principal offender, a Cascade resident, received two prison terms.[2]
Case data
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Seychelles’ Supreme Court sentenced Varis Preungprasob, 24, and Rutcha Pinitkarn, 21, to five years’ imprisonment each for importing cannabis after customs and police intercepted them on an Air Seychelles flight on 2 September 2025. Officers seized about 15.9 kg from each traveller.
The Supreme Court sentenced Nico Hertel, 32, to six years’ imprisonment on 11 September 2026 for importing cannabis found on 14 March 2025 hidden in car seats inside a container at the port. Hertel, who ran an auto business in Anse Etoile, changed his plea to guilty after first denying the charge.
Anti-Narcotics Bureau and customs officers arrested five Seychellois after finding 3 kg of compressed cannabis on an Air Seychelles flight from Johannesburg. Two were caught at the airport and three more, including an airline technician, were arrested later.
Seychelles' anti-drug agency seized 18.2 kg of compressed cannabis at Cascade and 39.75 kg at Beoliere on 26 and 28 January 2015, worth almost R29 million. Four suspects aged 20 to 45 appeared in court and were remanded while the agency pursued an importation network believed to run from Madagascar by boat.
