Africa-Press – Angola. The Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) announced this Friday the opening of an inquiry to investigate the alleged involvement of the body’s staff in illicit drug trafficking.
In a note, SIC explains that the investigation results from complaints circulated on social networks about the existence of an alleged cocaine trafficking network, made up of its staff and senior officials.
According to this body, assigned to the Ministry of the Interior, the investigative process was immediately triggered, after the denouncements, to verify the veracity of the information.
In its communiqué, SIC reaffirms that it is strongly committed to combating drug trafficking throughout the entire national territory, especially in border areas.
He stresses that the operational work, carried out in cooperation with other defense and security bodies, has produced satisfactory results, which have already led to the apprehension of large amounts of drugs, in the Port of Luanda and 4 de Fevereiro International Airport.
In addition to these products, brought from outside the country by travelers who tend to use Angola as a transit point, several intermediaries and others involved in the trafficking chain were arrested.
The SIC, on the other hand, calls for the continuous collaboration of citizens in presenting complaints or providing information related to drug trafficking, as well as other types of crimes.
It should be remembered that in 2020, the Provincial Court of Luanda sentenced the Angolan citizen Waldir Carlos, 47 years old, to four years in prison for cocaine trafficking.
The so-called “Drug Baron”, detained at the time by the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC), was part of a network whose members coordinated the distribution of narcotics.
In 2022, SIC seized, at 4 de Fevereiro International Airport and Port of Luanda, more than 140 kilos of cocaine from Brazil, disguised in boxes of frozen chicken, detergents, luggage and in capsules in the stomachs of passengers.
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