January 22, 2016
By Nick Ralston
Organised crime groups (click here) have become so successful at importing drugs into Australia that the wholesale price being paid for ice, cocaine and ecstasy has dramatically fallen in the past 18 months.
The NSW Crime Commission says the illegal drug trade remains the main source of income for organised crime in Australia and at present illicit substances are in "plentiful supply".
Fairfax Media has learned that the wholesale price paid by Australian criminal groups to import cocaine from overseas was as high as $280,000 a kilogram three years ago. Eighteen months ago it had dropped to $240,000 a kilogram and now sells below $200,000 and as low as $180,000....
All these drugs are also part of the income to terrorist groups. It should be taken very seriously and ended. The concern of course is the safety of the officers involved in discovering the drugs and ending the enterprise of the cartels.
I am sure I don't have to remind how serious the terrorist campaigns have been in the region.
As well as the two Australian ringleaders (click here) of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring, Indonesia executed four Nigerian men, one man from Brazil and one Indonesian. A woman from the Philippines and a Frenchman were temporarily reprieved....
The murders in paradise.
Veloso, aged 30, from the Philippines, was arrested in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2010 and found to be carrying a suitcase packed with 2.2kg (5lb) of heroin. Painted in court as a knowing drugs courier, she was sentenced to death. But her supporters say that poverty had made her susceptible to people traffickers, who promised her a job as a maid in Malaysia but instead made her an unwitting drug mule.
On Tuesday the woman who recruited Veloso for that job, Maria Kristina Sergio, “voluntarily surrendered” to police in the Philippine province of Nueva Ecija. She was wanted on charges of illegal recruitment and human trafficking....
There are more arrests and imprisonments in Indonesia than any other country in the world. It is an island country and due to the ease with which organized crime could operate within that geographical reality, it doesn't happen. Indonesia finds them.
Indonesia is so successful in ending crime and bringing criminals to the weight of law that the criminals and families are pleading to be lenient. Indonesia is not a country to allow slippage in it's laws and sentences. It is quite interesting.
The weight of Indonesian law is a shock to those arrested and tried. They never bargained for it.
...The NSW Crime Commission said expatriate Australians are playing a major role in bringing drugs into the country.
Former Sydney resident Hakan Ayik, an associate of the Comancheros bikie gang, operates a global drug trafficking network from his native Istanbul. Former Kings Cross identity Vaso Ulic is wanted over drug imports in Australia. He is currently based in Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia....
These people are known but remain out of reach. Why?
By Nick Ralston
Organised crime groups (click here) have become so successful at importing drugs into Australia that the wholesale price being paid for ice, cocaine and ecstasy has dramatically fallen in the past 18 months.
The NSW Crime Commission says the illegal drug trade remains the main source of income for organised crime in Australia and at present illicit substances are in "plentiful supply".
Fairfax Media has learned that the wholesale price paid by Australian criminal groups to import cocaine from overseas was as high as $280,000 a kilogram three years ago. Eighteen months ago it had dropped to $240,000 a kilogram and now sells below $200,000 and as low as $180,000....
All these drugs are also part of the income to terrorist groups. It should be taken very seriously and ended. The concern of course is the safety of the officers involved in discovering the drugs and ending the enterprise of the cartels.
I am sure I don't have to remind how serious the terrorist campaigns have been in the region.
As well as the two Australian ringleaders (click here) of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring, Indonesia executed four Nigerian men, one man from Brazil and one Indonesian. A woman from the Philippines and a Frenchman were temporarily reprieved....
The murders in paradise.
Veloso, aged 30, from the Philippines, was arrested in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2010 and found to be carrying a suitcase packed with 2.2kg (5lb) of heroin. Painted in court as a knowing drugs courier, she was sentenced to death. But her supporters say that poverty had made her susceptible to people traffickers, who promised her a job as a maid in Malaysia but instead made her an unwitting drug mule.
On Tuesday the woman who recruited Veloso for that job, Maria Kristina Sergio, “voluntarily surrendered” to police in the Philippine province of Nueva Ecija. She was wanted on charges of illegal recruitment and human trafficking....
There are more arrests and imprisonments in Indonesia than any other country in the world. It is an island country and due to the ease with which organized crime could operate within that geographical reality, it doesn't happen. Indonesia finds them.
Indonesia is so successful in ending crime and bringing criminals to the weight of law that the criminals and families are pleading to be lenient. Indonesia is not a country to allow slippage in it's laws and sentences. It is quite interesting.
The weight of Indonesian law is a shock to those arrested and tried. They never bargained for it.
...The NSW Crime Commission said expatriate Australians are playing a major role in bringing drugs into the country.
Former Sydney resident Hakan Ayik, an associate of the Comancheros bikie gang, operates a global drug trafficking network from his native Istanbul. Former Kings Cross identity Vaso Ulic is wanted over drug imports in Australia. He is currently based in Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia....
These people are known but remain out of reach. Why?
