Washington calls for joint crackdown on drug trafficking
MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart has called for a joint crackdown on drug trafficking at the 30th international law enforcement conference in Moscow.
She emphasized that not a single country was able to succeed in the anti-drug fight on its own, as drug dealers were using global communication and financial networks. Approaches may differ but there are also some common elements, she said, noting that coordination and mutual wish for professional partnership were important.
Leonhart proposed to build on the joint success. Drug dealers choose the path of least resistance: they go wherever law enforcement is weak and there is no rule of law, she stressed.
The DEA administrator recalled cooperation between U.S. and Russian drug control officers, which helped block a heroin channel between Afghanistan and Russia. A dealer supplying heroin to Russia was recently arrested in Dubai, she said.
The Federal Drug Control Service reported the detention of Tajikistan's native Atobek Gulmamadov in Dubai on suspicion of preparing to sell a very large batch of heroin in Russia on December 27, 2012. Drug control officers seized more than 900 kilograms of high-concentration heroin on the Russian territory. Gulmamadov personally supervised the transportation of nearly half of that amount, approximately 400 kilograms of the drug.