MoD probes claim that soldiers are smuggling heroin from Afghanistan
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oldiers returning from Afghanistan are being subjected to rigorous security checks amid claims that some are involved in heroin trafficking.
The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that military police were investigating a tip-off alleging that soldiers sent to fight the Taliban were buying drugs from Afghan dealers and shipping them back to Britain.
The claim is that heroin and other drugs are being smuggled in by a handful of the hundreds of soldiers returning each week to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
An Afghan farmer collects raw opium from poppies. Some drug bosses in the war-ravaged country have implicated soldiers in the trade
As military detectives launched the probe, Army chiefs ordered checks to be stepped up at the airbase.
Now all returning personnel are being subjected to greater use of sniffer dogs, body and luggage searches, and covert monitoring.
While defence officials apologised for the inevitable inconvenience to troops returning from duties in Afghanistan, they warned of the consequences for any soldiers who might be involved in drug-smuggling.
MoD officials confirmed that the tougher security would remain in force while ‘unsubstantiated’ claims that troops were buying illegal drugs and using military aircraft to ship them home were thoroughly investigated.
‘We are aware of these allegations,’ said a spokesman. ‘Although they are unsubstantiated, we take any such reports very seriously and we have already tightened existing procedures in Afghanistan and in the UK.
‘We regret any inconvenience this causes to our service personnel.
‘Any of our people found to be engaged in trafficking of illegal narcotics will feel the full weight of the law.’
It is believed that the inquiry is focused on British and Canadian personnel at airports in Camp Bastion and Kandahar.
Afghanistan is the source of 90 per cent of the world’s opium, the raw extract from poppies which is refined into heroin.
The vast majority of the Afghan opium crop is cultivated in Helmand province, the centre of combat operations for British and other allied forces.
Sept. 12, 2010
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