Kenyan cops find weapons, drugs on ship from India
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MOMBASA: Kenyan security agents have found an unspecified amount of weapons and drugs on a Norwegian-flagged ship they intercepted last week, a senior police officer said. The ship had sailed from Mumbai, India.
Kenyan authorities boarded the Hoegh Transporter, owned and operated by Norway's Hoegh Autoliners, last Thursday saying it was suspected of carrying drugs and firearms.
"We cannot tell how many weapons have been recovered because the exercise is still ongoing and we don't want to jeopardise it by giving incomplete information," Francis Wanjohi, Coast regional police commander, told Reuters late on Tuesday.
"The drugs, they have to be weighed to establish how much they are, and then tested to determine which exact type they are."
A Hoegh Autoliners spokeswoman declined to comment on the police report as the investigation was still ongoing.
In a statement, Hoegh Autoliners said its Chinese crew had been cooperating since Thursday with authorities who were inspecting cargo being offloaded from the ship at the Indian Ocean hub of Mombasa.
"We look forward to the speedy completion of the search so that our vessel can resume her sailing schedule," it said.
East Africa has become a key export route for Afghan heroin destined for Europe. Coastguards and navies from the region, short of funds and anti-trafficking expertise, have struggled to stem the flow of drugs through their waters.
Heroin is typically transported from Pakistan and Iran to East Africa, known for its poor border and maritime surveillance, and on to Europe.
In July, Kenyan police seized 341.7 kg of heroin hidden in the diesel tank of a ship, the biggest single seizure of drugs at Mombasa.
Last November, an Australian Navy warship patrolling Indian Ocean waters seized heroin worth $158 million.
Another Australian warship raided a dhow with 1,023 kg of heroin on board near Kenya in April 2014.
Mombasa handles imports of fuel and other goods and exports of tea and coffee from the entire East African region.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:22pm
recently india is being exposed of extremist views, this is another example of it.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:24pm
please indians! dont come here to mourn on this
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Sep 23, 2015 03:35pm
Wait for comments that it was actually ISI's stooges who went to India and did this :D
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Sep 23, 2015 03:35pm
What is the source of these weapons and drugs? It would be interesting to know the source, people (cartel) involved and their destined people (the actual ones who sell). That's how they can put a stop to something like this!
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Sep 23, 2015 03:36pm
@afridi fan have you read the contents?
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Sep 23, 2015 03:41pm
It's hard to check such activities especially given the vastness of world seas. I guess it's good news for smugglers.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:44pm
In a statement, Hoegh Autoliners said its Chinese crew had been cooperating since Thursday with authorities who were inspecting cargo being offloaded from the ship at the Indian Ocean hub of Mombasa.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:45pm
This explains the unrest in Africa and pakistan,Afghanistan also middle east.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:45pm
Chinese crew.........ship sailed from India to Kenya.......who allowed these weapons to upload the ship....
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Sep 23, 2015 03:57pm
waiting for indian janta's quick reply
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Sep 23, 2015 03:59pm
A Norwegian ship with Chinese crews???? The arms, drugs, must have been hidden when stopped at Mumbai.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:05pm
Norwegian ship, Chinese crew, Indian port of departure, caught in Kenya. A real international effort!
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Sep 23, 2015 04:12pm
Where did the ship arrive from when coming to Mumbai?
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Sep 23, 2015 04:13pm
as usual Indians will try to be too innocent and its just blame game,no drugs, no terrorism , India will never do such stuff. yeah right ;)
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Sep 23, 2015 04:16pm
Thr ship stopped in India and not an Indian ship .Chinese or Norwegians are to be blamed.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:34pm
Well guess the indian are now trying to spread terrorism in poor african countries.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:39pm
The secrets of booming economy.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:46pm
@aKZIs i believe that Indians read the story/article in entirety before commenting.
Rather than the headlines by some of you. The reason why they are on a growth path.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:48pm
Maritime law. Can anyone google and find out.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:48pm
AS per international maritime law ship captain and crew is responsible for this and they will be arrested...
Check the similar case http://www.seanews.com.tr/article/worldship/130312/noir-one-heroin-seized/
http://www.thetoc.gr/eng/news/article/captain-george-arrested-for-cocaine-transfer
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Sep 23, 2015 04:49pm
Ship is Norweigan, crew is Chinese. No clue if it was a halt at Mumbai or the ship started from Mumbai. But it is very clear to the readers that the stuff was all Indian. Cool!
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Sep 23, 2015 04:49pm
The ship is not Indian, the Crew is not indian, and it just stopped in India on the mid way, how come India become the host... I know peoples IQ is reducing day by day but plz put it to work and think...
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Sep 23, 2015 04:56pm
@Apoorva : But drugs were owned by Indians. The shipping company is fully cooperating with the authorities and this business must have been in business for a long time.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:01pm
Now it is proved India is funding terror outfits in Africa.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:07pm
@Sanjay Sharma intelligence agencies fund themselves with the sales of drugs and weapons it's an old trick.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:14pm
@M.Saeed where did the mentioned that it belongs to Indian corporation or any Indians... how do you guys get these ideas.... i wonder sometimes
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Sep 23, 2015 05:16pm
Indians are no saints if they have done any mistakes they have to face the law,
I think most of my pakistani friends never read the news content properly and Commenting just by reading headline or passing comments just by reading only comments
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Sep 23, 2015 05:24pm
The ship apparently stopped at Karachi port briefly.!
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Sep 23, 2015 05:25pm
until now, Indian media successfully kept rest of the world in dark about their dark activities.... Bombay port have 3 tiers of checking for in/out-bound ships. How did she skipped such tight security of a nuclear country..... now Indians would say these Arms/ Drugs were placed on ship once she clears their territorial waters. easy said than done. nowadays in the wake of piracy, no ship entertains unknown ships in the open seas... so, hoodlum for India and their continued drug export to rest of the world through noble shipping lines..... its beginning of a dimension how india operates drugs, smuggling, human-trafficking, narcotics, terrorism etc and blame others... this time they are caught in high seas in neutral waters, good for the world to see largest democracy ( so called ).
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Sep 23, 2015 05:25pm
something cheerful moments for Pakistan in the midst of home failing state
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Sep 23, 2015 05:26pm
How come Indian border control missed that? How come they were not checked before the ship left?
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Sep 23, 2015 05:30pm
@Q Adil
Ha ha...completely agree! A true international effort indeed!
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Sep 23, 2015 05:40pm
India is going extra mile to keep their new military-partner, Israel, happy. Basically due to Modi's extreme intentions whole India is gradually becoming a integral puppet of Israel. Hope Indians realize this fact very soon.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:51pm
India is now spreading terrorism all over the world for money now!
World should stop India for exporting terror now.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:56pm
China has been smuggling drugs to Australia and weapons to Africa for quite a while.
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Sep 23, 2015 06:07pm
There is no doubt that indian intelligence agencies are involved in terrorism activities worldwide. This is another example of it.
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Sep 23, 2015 06:15pm
Clearly the one of the countless clues that link Indians with the word terrorism.
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Sep 23, 2015 06:19pm
@Arsalan Musharraf Ship was not checked as the ship only stopped in mumbai port midway ,no uploading and onloading.Had there been uploading and onloading in mumbai port then Indian agencies would have come to active.
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Sep 23, 2015 06:26pm
India is spreading unrest in many countries.
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Sep 23, 2015 06:33pm
Norwegian Ship! Chinese crew! sounds fishy. Sailed from Mumbai does not mean anything...
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Sep 23, 2015 06:37pm
India, world biggest democracy, trying to exert it's power and interfered to many nations,
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Sep 23, 2015 06:38pm
@Sanjay Sharma , India the biggest democracy in the world
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Sep 23, 2015 06:48pm
Many of us have become investigating officers. Lay people like us who do not know anything and carry on with normal lives must at best await follow up news on this.
An incident happened and many came to wildest conclusions.
This kind of judgement is tough to be passed even by those who are trained to deal and solve such criminal matters.
So much smuggling happens everywhere in all nations. Let's leave it to experts.
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Sep 23, 2015 07:00pm
Did you guys miss the part about the ship being Norwegian and the crew being Chinese? The fact that they made a stop in Mumbai is all it needs for this to be India's fault apparently. And you wonder why the world doesn't take Pakistan seriously.
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Sep 23, 2015 07:03pm
Export of terror substance from India. What a double standard by Indians.
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Sep 23, 2015 07:08pm
The many comment here does not understand the operation of shipping. As per the Kenyan official the ship came from India which is correct since that was her last stop. However, Hoegh line voyage starts from Europe to Middle East, Karachi, India and to Africa. Drugs and gun could have been loaded on to the vessel from any of the ports. Now after Investigation we will know from where exactly the goods came from.
So till that time stop blaming any country!!
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Sep 23, 2015 07:59pm
@afridi fan ...Where does the heroin start it journey??
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Sep 23, 2015 08:03pm
Recently an expose in an online news site, The Intercept revealed how Israeli, Indian and American owned companies have been involved in heroin and arms smuggling by using billions of dollars of profits from this drug trafficking to destabilize and wreak havoc in Pakistan, Syria and Iraq.
Now both The Intercept and this article proves this heinous information to have validity - especially since Kenya is an "operations" base for rogue companies from these three countries.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:04pm
Afghan drugs are being smuggled into Europe and Africa through India.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:28pm
OK, guys let us not get excited about the find just because the last port of call was Mumbai. Before that, the vessel started from S Korea, went to UAE. The drugs were found in some military vehicles which India does not export. So probably they were loaded at Incheon. Where did the drugs originate and who put them inside those vehicles? That is the question.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:29pm
@Azhar ...Yes we do vote to elect the PM.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:30pm
@M.Saeed How do you know that the drugs were owned by Indians? The ship's company is cooperating as they lose money. The crew could be the culprit.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:34pm
India population about 1,300,000,000 could have much more dons,much more drug pushers,much more smugglers ,much more criminals,much more poor.........etc....etc,than its neighboring saarc nations.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:43pm
I have dug a little deep into this. The drugs and guns were evidently in the tyres of UN vehicles intended for peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which would most likely be Indian peacekeepers in DRC. By virtue of being in UN vehicles, they would have been summarily cleared by customs before being shipped inland - in all likelihood the point of delivery to Indian peacekeepers would be somewhere close to DRC. It is possible for this to be an Indian conspiracy but as they say "it's not our style".
The ship begins its journey from Veracruz in Mexico (see Hoegh's website), which is heavy into drugs and paraphernalia. But if drugs began their journey there, conspirators onboard would have moved them into the UN vehicles - this is possible, and some questioning of the crew will clear it up.
Regarding weapons, it's possible that these are guns intended for UN peacekeepers without the right paperwork/declaration. Shoddy paperwork "is our style", unfortunately.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:45pm
If this Cargo/assignment was loaded at Mumbai then Indians are to behind it clearly. How did it pass Indian customs? Perhaps Afghan government is routing heroine via India now ... Clearly RAW can't find all the terrorism through state funds.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:58pm
No Wonder!
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Sep 23, 2015 09:06pm
Indian RaW terror funding of weapons and money.
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Sep 23, 2015 09:30pm
How stupid smugglers heroin cost more than gold in Mumbai and they selling in mobmasa
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Sep 23, 2015 09:31pm
Another echoing slap on India's face.
Vew proofs pou r in everyday supporting india's hand in exporting drugs and weapons.
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Sep 23, 2015 09:46pm
Norway, the land of Nobel Peace Price, fossil fuil polluter, bomber of Libya, supporter of Iraqi invasion...calling her the nation of peace :)
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Sep 23, 2015 09:51pm
@Sanjay Sharma indian immigration allowed it.
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Sep 23, 2015 09:55pm
@buskyabu You are right, but when state funded agencies want to create chaos and panic in other part of the world they use even use diamonds. It gives me clear indication that Indian agencies are supplying this stuff to their peacekeepers in Congo to assert control and prolong war their since it is in India's benefit.
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Sep 23, 2015 10:05pm
Many indians have been backed and trained to fight with or directly support ISIS. We all know indian deep state wants to keep a check on Muslim nations and divide them. They will fail, as can be seen.
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Sep 23, 2015 10:09pm
Its a Norwegian ship with Chinese crew...Think about it
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Sep 23, 2015 10:12pm
Article says and it is very well known Heroin is primarily shipped from Pakistan...This is a Norwegian ship with Chinese crew
Possibly a international drug gang which has operations in Pakistan, India and China
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Sep 23, 2015 10:23pm
Guys before blaming any country - let's understand that smugglers use small boats and move illicit items on board the ship in international waters. The crew should be questioned and held responsible for the smuggled goods.
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Sep 23, 2015 11:03pm
So now it is being claimed that the weapons that were not declared on the cargo manifest were actually loaded in India for UN peace keepers, what about the drugs? India has stopped declaring weapons and drugs going to a peace keeping missions?
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Sep 23, 2015 11:12pm
Actually it is Mody's attempt to boost exports from India. They need the funds for purchasing drones from Israel.
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Sep 23, 2015 11:44pm
@Zak...Immigration do not check what's in the boat...Customs do.
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Sep 24, 2015 12:34am
For those who seem surprised by Norwegian ship Chinese crew Indian Port things etc.. Let me make it clear that it is a normal practice in maritime business. Companies always prefer to have ships' crew with minimum wages as im a Pakistani working on Iranian ship currently engaged in trips iran-china-iran. Furthermore, it is very unlikely to say that captain and ship's other staff is aware of what is "actually" there in the box they have loaded as container always comes with seal... I don't know if this was a container ship or some other type but you can not accuse ship's staff without investigations.. Cheers :)
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Sep 24, 2015 09:43am
A Norwegian ship which doesn't belong to India !! Crew members were Chinese, They on a Multi sea route also stopped at one of the Indian port.
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