Tanzanian authorities Tuesday impounded 201 kilograms of heroin worth $5.5 million, proving once more that the war on drugs remains a daunting task. The heroin was found aboard an Iranian vessel.
The arrest came just a few weeks after the
Canadian military ship Toronto impounded 265 bags of heroin weighing
more than 280kgs aboard a vessel while patrolling the Indian Ocean.
In the meantime, a special task force dealing with transnational organised crime in Tanzanian waters has arrested 12 suspects.
Eight of the suspects held Iranian passports and
four others were found with Pakistan travel documents. The suspects are
being interrogated by police, according to the head of the Anti-Drugs
Unit (ADU), Mr Godfrey Nzowa.
He told The Citizen that the drug dealers
were arrested in the wee hours of Tuesday on board Aldahial, an Iranian
dhow. It was sailing between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar at the time.
According to police, preliminary investigations indicate that the ship ferrying the drugs was registered in Kunak, Iran.
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