Four people were arrested in Kenya’s
Indian Ocean port of Mombasa on suspicion of trafficking huge quantities of
heroin to the United States, police said on Monday without giving the precise
value or quantity of the drugs.
There has been a surge in the volume of
heroin trafficked through east Africa in recent years, the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime said, with Mombasa, the region’s biggest port, cited
as a major transit point for narcotics and other contraband.
Heroin is typically transported from
Pakistan and Iran to east Africa, which is known for its porous borders and
weak maritime surveillance, and onwards to Europe, Reuters reports.
Hamisi Masha, an investigator attached
to Kenya’s anti-narcotics unit, told a court hearing that the four suspects had
been linked to 98 packets of heroin seized in the capital Nairobi, and that
they were also wanted by U.S. authorities.
Two suspects were Kenyans and two were
Indian nationals.
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