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Cyprus: Drug smuggler jailed for 15 years
John Leonidou Cyprus Mail
Saturday 11 Mar 2006 A DRUG dealer was yesterday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment after being found guilty of importing, possession and intending to sell around 24 kilos of cannabis. Police have said the case was one of the biggest seizures of cannabis from a single person. Liberian asylum seeker Ab Victor had previously told the court he had received the drugs from a 22-year-old Portuguese man who had smuggled them from South Africa. Victor was caught in a sting operation organised by the Drug Squad. The Portuguese man had pleaded guilty to the charges and was earlier jailed for 11 years. Victor, 34, had told the court he did smuggle the drugs into Cyprus but that he only did it because he was working with the police in the sting operation to catch the Portuguese man. But the court dismissed the claim, arguing it was inconceivable that the police would stitch up somebody helping their operations. In a separate case, a Limassol court sentenced a man to two and a half years in prison on charges of drug possession and intending to sell cannabis. Zoran Spasojevic, 33 from Serbia, had pleaded guilty to the charges. According to 2003 statistics from the Ministry of Health, the most popular drugs among addicts were heroin (54.6 per cent ), cannabis (30 per cent) and cocaine/crack (6.9 per cent).
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