Incineração de 410 Kg de droga do tipo anfetamina no Aterro sanitário de Maguaza, Distrito de Moamba, aprendida palo SERNIC da provincia de Maputo (Foto arquivo)
Maputo, 29 May (AIM) – The largest number of drug traffickers arrested in Mozambique came from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) and São Paulo (Brazil), according to the Mozambican Tax Authority (AT).
According to AT spokesperson, Fernando Tinga, in terms of routes the most worrying flights are those that that pass through Pakistan, China, India, and Brazil.
“The connecting airports that are our main concerns are Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam and Sao Paulo, because these are the points through which drugs are transported to Mozambique”, Tinga said recently in Maputo, during the presentation of the annual report entitled Evolution of Consumption and Illicit Drug Trafficking, released by the Central Office for Prevention and Fight Against Drug Trafficking.
In terms of seizures, Tinga announced that in 2022, at Maputo international airport, “20.5 kilos of cocaine were seized, which were brought by three individuals coming from Brazil; one carried three kilos, one 11.8 kilos and the third 5.7 kilos.”
“Of these three traffickers, two were South Africans and one Costa Rican”, he said, adding that in Ponta do Ouro, in Maputo province, on the border with the South African province of Kwazulu-Natal, there was a seizure of 211 cans containing methamphetamine.
For his part, Elone Chichava, representing the Mozambican Justice Ministry, said that 1,030 drug trafficking and consumption cases were filed in 2022, compared to 716 in the previous year, an increase of 43 per cent. In 831 of these cases, suspects were charged.
The annual report on the Evolution of the Consumption and Illicit Trafficking of Drugs, from the Central Office for the Prevention and Fight against Drugs, says that in the same period, over 15,000 people with mental and behavioural disorders, resulting from the consumption of psychoactive substances, were treated.
(AIM)
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