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India-Pakistan
Enormous three-tonne haul of heroin from Afghanistan worth £2BILLION is seized at Indian port after it arrived via Iran
2021-09-22
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Two Indians were arrested after the heroin was found by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at Mundra Port in the western Indian state of Gujarat

  • The heroin was kept in two containers marked as carrying talc which originated from Afganistan and was shipped from a port in Iran to Gujarat

  • The shipment of heroin was estimated to be worth 200 billion rupees (£2 billion)
Posted by:Skidmark

#1  By an age-old rule of thumb, every 10 tons of raw opium reduces to one ton of heroin. In other words, the worldwide opium output in 1996 translates into 430 tons of heroin. About half of that is destined for the United States.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-09-22 09:26  

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