The DEA, in cooperation with their Afghan counterparts, conducted the investigation, which revealed that Bagcho was one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world and manufactured the drug in clandestine laboratories along Afghanistan’s border region with Pakistan. 28, 2010, after his arrest and extradition to the United States from Afghanistan in May 2009. The trial, before Judge Huvelle, was only the second under the narco-terrorism statute since its enactment in 2006.īagcho was charged in a superseding indictment on Jan. prison due to the relentless efforts of DEA, our Afghan counterparts and our prosecuting partners.”īagcho was convicted by a jury on March 13, 2012, after a three week trial, of one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States one count of distribution of one kilogram or more of heroin knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States and one count of narco-terrorism. “One of the world’s most prolific drug traffickers who helped fund the Taliban will spend his remaining days behind bars in a U.S. “This is DEA at its finest, working in close collaboration with our Afghan partners to end the long reign of this Afghan drug lord whose drug proceeds financed terror,” said DEA Administrator Leonhart. Today’s life sentence is an appropriate punishment for one of the most notorious heroin traffickers in the world.” Bagcho used the profits of his narcotics trafficking operation to support high-level Taliban commanders in Afghanistan. “In 2006 alone, he conducted heroin transactions worth more than $250 million. “Haji Bagcho led a massive drug production and trafficking operation that supplied heroin in more than 20 countries, including the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. In addition to his prison term, Bagcho was ordered to forfeit $254,203,032 in drug proceeds along with his property in Afghanistan. Haji Bagcho, an Afghan national and large scale drug trafficker, was sentenced by U.S. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Administrator Michele M. WASHINGTON – An Afghan national with ties to the Taliban was sentenced to life in prison today for conspiring to distribute heroin to the United States and for using drug proceeds to fund, arm and supply the Taliban, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A.
0 kommentar(er)
