Two Customs officials from OR Tambo International Airport were arrested on Sunday evening for smuggling cocaine worth R2 million. The suspects aged 29 and 35 allegedly smuggled out an unaccompanied suite case which arrived on a flight from Brazil on Sunday afternoon and left it…
In November 2009, 50-year old Liz Warren, a popular chef in the seaside town of Hermanus, was arrested in Senegal for drug smuggling. In June 2013, Gauteng businessman Gerhard Hattingh was imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling. Desperate or greedy, naïve or deceived, there are…
This week Special Assignment investigates the link between drug smuggling and human trafficking. The recent execution of eight of the ‘Bali Nine’ drug smugglers in Indonesia has once again turned the world’s spotlight on the transnational drug trade and the punishment for this crime. In…