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The COVID-19 pandemic has hit cocaine traffickers, a United Nations report has found, as global lockdowns have brought transport to a near-standstill and disrupted a business that relies on legal trade to camouflage its activities and on individuals being able to distribute drugs to consumers.
“The measures implemented by governments to counter the pandemic have thus inevitably affected all aspects of the illegal drug markets, from the production and trafficking of drugs to their consumption,” according to the report from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.
Anticipating a slowdown in trade from COVID-19, drug traffickers had increased shipments just ahead of the imposition of lockdowns, only to be trounced due to a number of seizures.
In the first three months of this year, the U.N. office helped confiscate 17.5 tons of cocaine bound for Europe coming from South America. In Rotterdam, Netherlands, confiscations shot up from 4.1 tons in the first quarter of last year to 6.6 tons in the same period this year.
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-08/cocaine-coronavirus-supply-chain
“The measures implemented by governments to counter the pandemic have thus inevitably affected all aspects of the illegal drug markets, from the production and trafficking of drugs to their consumption,” according to the report from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.
Anticipating a slowdown in trade from COVID-19, drug traffickers had increased shipments just ahead of the imposition of lockdowns, only to be trounced due to a number of seizures.
In the first three months of this year, the U.N. office helped confiscate 17.5 tons of cocaine bound for Europe coming from South America. In Rotterdam, Netherlands, confiscations shot up from 4.1 tons in the first quarter of last year to 6.6 tons in the same period this year.
Cont'd:
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-08/cocaine-coronavirus-supply-chain
