Anti Narcotics Bureau in deep slumber ! Cocaine makes its way out freely passing Customs barriers ; AMRO Co. licensed smuggler?

(Lanka-e-News- 24.July.2016, 9.00PM) The infamous sugar importing Amro Co. has got down a second consignment of  cocaine weighing 301.325 kilos making Sri Lanka a hub for cocaine business . Believe it or not , this detection was made by accident confirming again the inefficiency of  the Police anti Narcotics Bureau  which is  asleep at the wheel. 

The first consignment of 80 kilos of cocaine was detected by the Police STF on 20 th June in a private container of sugar imported from Brazil. It is to the anti Narcotics Bureau any contraband detected by any security division is handed over.

Lanka  e news exposed  the corrupt Director S.S.P. Kamal Silva of the anti Narcotics Bureau when  he was conducting the investigation into the first detection most neglectfully and shakily, and while the  probe into this is still not over, an outsider giving a call to the Anti Narcotics Bureau on the 21 st July  informed that the same Amro Co. has got down a further consignment of sugar , and when the goods were being unloaded , a quantity of cocaine  was detected.

By that time the Customs had scanned the container and released it with the  cocaine contained in it to the container yard at Nuge road , Peliyagoda. Following the phone  call ,when the Anti Narcotics Bureau went to the venue , 301.325 kilos of cocaine in full were detected .This contraband was stored along with the sugar under the symbols: No. 888, alphabet O and Eagle.

Can you beat that ?  After the first container of cocaine was detected last month , about 20 more containers have arrived in the country between then and 21st, and have gone past the Customs barriers without any hindrance or obstruction  . A high rung police officer told Lanka  e news it is suspected more cocaine had gone out along with those containers.

The utter  inefficiency and incompetence of the Director of the Police anti narcotics Bureau is borne testimony to by the simple fact that while the investigations are  still under way pertaining to the previous detection involving the  Amro  company that smuggled the cocaine , a further container load of cocaine threefold more in quantity had been smuggled in by the same Co.

What ‘s more ? until somebody accidentally  saw the contraband being unloaded and reported , the Anti Narcotics Bureau was in the dark and without a clue !! Neither the Anti Nracotics Bureau chief nor the IGP has taken any action to prevent this smuggling operation at least while the investigation is on. Neither was  any other legal action taken to ensure against a repetition.

According to information reaching Lanka e news , though heroin addiction is widespread in SL , cocaine is not. Hence such large quantities of cocaine are being smuggled in because SL is now fast becoming   a hub for onward transmission of this contraband via SL.

It is therefore a matter for deep regret that while SL is being used as a hub for cocaine smuggling , the Anti Narcotics Bureau and  the Customs are in a deep slumber going by the accidental discoveries.

It is a pertinent question : how did the quantity of  cocaine find its way  out of the Customs barrier so freely ?

The chief of the STF , Ranjith Perera when he made the first detection made a clear accusation that the Customs officers are involved.  Intriguingly and shockingly until today , not one culprit has been apprehended.

In the circumstances the people are rightly  questioning with concern whether Amro Co. has been issued a license to smuggle cocaine ?

(In the photo is  IGP Poojitha Jayasundara who arrived on the scene after everything was over to examine the quantity of cocaine )

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by     (2016-07-24 15:17:09)