Bitcoin Helped Smuggle $100,000 Worth LSD From US To India
India has arrested five people including two students who allegedly smuggled seven mln rupees’ ($108,000) worth of LSD from the US using Bitcoin.
According to local news publication Times of India, the group, operating in Mumbai, used the virtual currency ship postage stamp-style blots of the drug via courier services.
LSD is colorless and odorless, making it hard to detect. Much like Bitcoin, however, its pseudo-anonymous qualities are no longer a match for sophisticated tracers.
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“Our team had received information that this gang has been actively involved in smuggling and supplying LSD or party drugs to several others including celebrities," inspector Sunil Mane of the Mumbai police’s anti-narcotics cell commented.
The operation comes the same week as India’s government reiterated warnings about virtual currency. On Tuesday, Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said that assets such as Bitcoin “could subject the users to unintentional breaches of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism laws.”
His comments set off a chain reaction in the media, with commentators fearing businesses could be operating illegally.
In response, local exchange Zebpay prepared a dedicated statement on the matter, in which it said it “believed Bitcoin is not illegal” in India.
“Many new technologies stroke fear especially among regulators as it is their responsibility to protect us. And the same is with bitcoins. We appreciate genuine concerns of our regulators and politicians,” the statement added.
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I ve read many news about "Harmful Drug" that still being as seurious problem in Indonwsia. Beginning in 2012, the Indonesian people were surprised by several drug cases that occurred in this country. Still fresh in our minds, a pilot caught on a cake in Makassar some time ago. Not to mention coupled with the death of Afriyani death accident, which claimed 9 innocent lives.
Everyone certainly does not run out, how can a pilot who is responsible for hundreds of lives can arbitrarily shabu party. Or, in the second case, everyone would be angry and furious, because someone could be riding deliberately under the influence of drugs, to eliminate many lives.
The emergence of a series of drug cases that surfaced, of course people ask what the police and National Narcotics Agency (BNN) do, so that tragic events occur.
Therefore, the event of the capture of the shabu pilot and the Afriyani case has given wisdom to all parties that we must take immediate action and take steps to prevent a more fatal danger.
Eradicate National-International Drug Network
Closing the year 2011, in order to implement the program of Prevention and Eradication of Drug Abuse and Illicit Circulation (P4GN), BNN has shown maximum performance in the eradication field. This can be seen from the success of BNN in uncovering many networks of drug syndicates, be it a national and international scale. Total network BNN has revealed in 2011 as many as 97 networks, with the number of suspects as many as 159 people.
The disclosure of networks involving the most spectacular and prominent international syndicates is the disclosure of the Surya Bahadur Tamang case, aka Boski, who controls the illicit trafficking of drugs from behind bars in Nusa Kambangan prisons to large Iranian cities arrested by Thai police as well as Obina cases, prisoners in Cipinang prison that controls its network from within Cipinang Prison.
The crime perpetrated by the Boski syndicate is not only in the dimensions of drug trafficking, but the crime committed by the network has been widespread in money laundering crimes.
Another prominent case related to drugs and money laundering is the arrest of Narcotics Prison Chief in Nusa Kambangan, Marwan Adli, who allegedly facilitated the commission of drug crime in the prison environment and received a flow of funds from the proceeds of drug transactions. Now, after going through a fairly tough trial, Marwan Adli has been sentenced to 13 years in prison, by the Cilacap District Court, on December 27, 2011 last.
In an effort to break the network and prevent the entry of international drug networks to Indonesia, BNN not only awaits the entry of its drug or narcotics network to Indonesia but also takes aggressive steps abroad by cooperating and exchanging information with apparatus in several countries and following various International organizations in the field of P4GN. One of the concrete evidence is that BNN and Portuguese police have succeeded in uncovering the identity of members of international drug syndicates from Bulgaria who went to Indonesia, to Tegal, Central Java, to recruit the crew assigned to smuggle 1.8 tonnes of cocaine to Portugal. They were finally caught by the Portuguese security apparatus. Currently the captain of the ship and interpreter of Indonesian citizens are still curled up in Portuguese prisons.
Optimization of Rehabilitation Therapy
In order to realize Indonesia towards a drug-free country in 2015, BNN can not necessarily rely solely on the eradication or termination of syndicate networks, but must be balanced with maximum rehabilitation therapy.
Of the total number of drug abusers who reached 3.8 million in 2010, only 18 thousand of them are newly undergoing rehabilitation therapy. When viewed from this figure, then BNN has a great homework to encourage the addicts to undergo rehabilitation so that it can recover from drug dependence.
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