The issue of drug trafficking from Afghanistan in Central Asia and proposed solutions
... estimated at 55$ billion annually. About 120 tonnes of heroin per year are transported from Central Asia to Western Europe and the Russian Federation through the ‘New Silk Road’. The Kazakh Security Committee identified 125 drug-related organized crime groups in Central Asia and data are only growing. The most well known is Lesha Gorbaty’s. As a result of the high demand and the consequentially high profits, a terror-crime nexus has developed in Central Asia. It is particularly ...
05.05.2016