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Iraq: Drug dealer sentenced to 150 years

M & C

Saturday 14 May 2011

Mosul, Iraq - An Iraqi drug dealer was sentenced to 150 years in prison in the northern city of Mosul, an official at the drug control police department said Saturday.

In its verdict, the Mosul criminal court also ordered the confiscation of his assets by the state, the official, Bashir al- Jabouri, told the German Press Agency dpa.

Sufian Keji was arrested in April 2010 on charges of growing and selling marijuana. The police subsequently burnt his cannabis field.

Since the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq has witnessed a rise in the trafficking of drugs, which were largely unavailable earlier because of leader Saddam Hussein's strict laws against narcotics.

Smugglers have exploited both the ongoing violence and the country's porous borders to use Iraq as a transit route for drugs.

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