Probe claims soldiers smuggling heroin from Afghanistan

Mail Online
September 13, 2010

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Soldiers returning from Afghanistan are being subjected to rigorous security checks amid claims that some are involved in heroin trafficking.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that military police were investigating a tip-off alleging that soldiers sent to fight the Taliban were buying drugs from Afghan dealers and shipping them back to Britain.

The claim is that heroin and other drugs are being smuggled in by a handful of the hundreds of soldiers returning each week to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

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As military detectives launched the probe, Army chiefs ordered checks to be stepped up at the airbase.

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This article was posted: Monday, September 13, 2010 at 12:54 pm

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