International Herald Tribune, 16 Dec 2008, Reuters
SINGAPORE: Drug smugglers are increasingly using Singapore as a transit point to ship heroin to the United States and Europe, despite some of the world's strictest drug laws in the city-state, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Singapore's Straits Times newspaper said 46 kilogrammes of heroin were seized in the first nine months of the year, nearly three times the total for the whole of 2007, leading crime experts to suspect trafficking has increased.
The country's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) believes that 11 kilogrammes of pure grade heroin seized in the year-long haul was likely bound for the U.S. and Europe, the newspaper said
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