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Store skibsladninger af afghansk heroin transiterer gennem Tyrkiet ind i balkanlandene og derfra ind i den Europæiske Union, sagde chefen for den Russiske Narkotikakontrol mandag.
"I dette tilfælde, falder handlen med olie sammen med handlen med narkotika, blot bliver de sendt i forskellige retninger. Hvis afghansk heroin passerer gennem Tyrkiets territorium og videre til de balkanlandene og derfra til den europæiske Union, så flyder olien ind til Tyrkiet," fortalte Viktor Ivanov journalisterne.
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Drugs infest Europe as large volumes of Afghan heroin transit Turkey to Balkans
Ivanov said that drugs from Afghanistan generate profits estimated at $150 billion annually for the people involved in the operations with them, adding that Turkey was being used to transit Afghan heroin, as well as for smuggled oil.
Earlier in December, Moscow pointed to Turkey's complicity in the trade of oil from fields seized by the Islamic State (IS, or Daesh in Arabic) militant group, which is outlawed in Russia, which it claims in being smuggled across the porous Turkey-Syria border.
Kommentar: More money trails being found pointing to Turkey once again.