Sunday, February 19, 2006

Drug gangs send heroin to Britain through post / Sunday Times,

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2047367,00.html
Abul Taher
"DRUG cartels and suppliers are increasingly using the postal system to smuggle their narcotics into Britain, according to investigators. Gangs are circumventing tighter Customs checks at traditional ports of entry by transporting heroin, cocaine and ecstasy by post, which is less effectively screened. There has also been a growth in illegal internet pharmacies in Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand that sell and post restricted medicines, including the sedative diazepam.
Once delivered in Britain, they are consumed as recreational drugs. "