The seized assets were sold off this month through a partnership with local bank Scheich, with the proceeds flowing into the accounts of the regional government of Hesse.
Europe must tread carefully or risk
fuelling militancy and migration
Miguel Angel ‘El Gordo’ Martinez worked for Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman in the Sinaloa cartel as a drugs big-wig in Mexico City
Police are investigating a case of murder, attempted murder and assault after raiding a suspected drug den.
After meeting a Tanzanian stowaway, Sean Christie gets caught up in a hair-raising heroin run from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town.
Iran has executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran, says a statement on the website of the prosecutor’s office.
Sheryl Cwele’s partner in crime, Frank Nabolisa, has filed papers in the ConCourt, requesting leave to appeal against his conviction for drug dealing.
Correspondence shows that Sheryl Cwele clearly knew about the plans to bring drugs into South Africa, writes Glynnis Underhill.
The mother of drug mule Tessa Beetge hopes the court will uphold Sheryl Cwele’s conviction so her daughter might be freed from a Brazil jail sooner.
Tessa Beetge.s mother now wants her daughter’s sentence reduced following the conviction of Sheryl Cwele.
Sheryl Cwele, the wife of state security minister Siyabonga Cwele, sat stony faced in the dock as Judge Piet Koen convicted her of dealing in cocaine.
Sheryl Cwele was on Thursday found guilty on a charge of dealing in drugs, or conspiring to do so, in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Sheryl Cwele was on Thursday found not guilty on two of the charges she faced related to drug trafficking.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday ruled against the state’s application to have its drug-trafficking case against Sheryl Cwele reopened.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court is expected to deliver judgement in the drug trafficking case involving the wife of the state security minister.
Drug-trafficking accused Sheryl Cwele and her Nigerian co-accused Frank Nabolisa will know their fate on May 4.
An application for drug-trafficking charges to be withdrawn against Sheryl Cwele was rejected by the high court sitting in Ramsgate on Wednesday.
Sheryl Cwele should be acquitted of drug-trafficking charges because there is nothing linking her to the crime, a court heard on Wednesday.
Sheryl Cwele will on Wednesday apply for the withdrawal of drug trafficking charges before she takes the stand at the KwaZulu-Natal High Court.
The <em>M&G</em> speaks to three women who are serving time at a Johannesburg prison after being arrested for drug smuggling.
The state intends producing intercepted calls between drug-trafficking accused Sheryl Cwele and convicted drug mule Tessa Beetge, a court has heard.
The state on Monday called a Brazilian chemical expert as a witness at the drug-trafficking trial of Sheryl Cwele.
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/ 15 October 2010
It was a process more drawn out, and only marginally less painful, than trying to pass a 5kg block of the "devil’s dandruff".
Tessa Beetge, the KZN woman imprisoned in Brazil for drug trafficking, was recruited by the wife of the state security minister, a court has heard.
The drug-trafficking trial of the state security minister’s wife could not continue on Tuesday because a state witness was in a poor emotional state.
Three Brazilians will testify in the drug-trafficking case against Sheryl Cwele, wife of the state security minister, a court heard on Monday.
Jamaican forces claimed control of a slum in an offensive to capture an alleged drug kingpin late on Wednesday, with at least 44 deaths reported.
Battles between Jamaican authorities and gunmen turned Kingston into a warzone on Monday, as the hunt for an alleged drug kingpin intensified.
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/ 1 February 2010
Bail application papers for Sheryl Cwele (50), wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, will be filed on Tuesday.
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/ 3 September 2009
At least 18 people were killed on Wednesday when gunmen stormed into a drug treatment centre in Mexico’s violence-plagued city of Ciudad Juarez.
The booming narcotics trade via West Africa is a ”shocking” problem that could further destabilise fragile states in the region.
Ephedrine worth an estimated R15,6-million on the street was seized at OR Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park on Friday, said police.