DEC arrests1,279 people in the first quarter of 2019 for various drug related offences

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in the first quarter of 2019 arrested 1,279 people for various drug related offences countrywide.
This is against the total of 1, 376 arrests that were recorded in the same period in 2018.
And the Commission says 35 people were arrested for money laundering activities involving a total of K13, 937, 421.61 and $199, 300 US dollars.
DEC Spokesperson Theresa Katongo said the Commission further arrested eight people for being in possession of counterfeit notes amounting to K6, 600 and $100 respectively.
Meanwhile Katongo said the common trends observed included an increase in theft by public servant and fraudulent false accounting as predicate offences to money laundering.
Katongo further said other typologies noted included increases in self and third party money laundering mostly involving the acquisition of real estate and motor vehicles in the names of the suspects and other persons.
She said of the total arrests recorded for drug related offences 1, 206 comprised males and seventy-three (73) females as well as 78 juveniles.

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