Cannabis Trail Now Target Of Organized Crime In Europe
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The Italian Mafia and Islamic State are reportedly working together to smuggle pot into the world’s richest continent.
A new investigation revealed that the Italian Mafia and Islamic State are teaming up to smuggle pot into Europe. Under Sharia law, smoking and possession of hash is prohibited for those who live in Syria and Iraq however the leaders of the Islamic State are becoming millionaires by helping to illegally transport it.
Hash Trail
Franco Roberti, Italy’s anti-mafia and anti-terror chief states that while the country’s mobsters have long ruled the illegal drug trade, they have had to work in cooperation with the Isil to pass its Libyan territory in the North African drug route. The current route where hash-compressed cannabis resin starts in Casablanca, Morocco,then works its way to Algeria,then Tunisia, and finally Tobruk in eastern Libya.
The Italian mafia were left with no choice but to forge a deal with the Isis in order to pass Syria which is largely unregulated but whose ports are controlled by the militants. The profits going to the Islamic State have reduced by 30% in the middle of last year, forcing them to think of creative ways to bring in more money needed to finance the worldwide jihad. Adding insult to injury is that the Isil have reportedly lost around 22% of its territory and are now only overseeing 6 million people instead of 9 million previously which has greatly shrunk its tax base.
The estimated yearly earnings of the Italian mafia from the narcotics trade is currently pegged at around $36 billion from which the Islamic State is now receiving a handsome cut. According to Roberti, the partnership of both groups are only in its early stages as his team just started to explore it in February 2015. He also added that Islamic militant groups shared similarities with traditional mafias of Italy, thus it only made sense for each of them to cooperate for mutual benefit. Both groups work in international terrorism and rely on criminal activities such as drug smuggling to finance its activities.
Roberti recommends decriminalizing cannabis which would make the operations of both the mafia and Islamicstate suffer. He adds that decriminalization and even legalization would make both groups suffer a serious blow as terrorists among them would make money off from it.
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