Spartak Moscow forward Quincy Promes has been arrested in Dubai at the request of the Netherlands where he was sentenced last month to six years in prison in absentia for drug trafficking, Dutch prosecutors said late on Wednesday.

Dutch footballer Quincy Promes arrested in drug smuggling case

An Indian-origin couple in the UK has been sentenced to 33 years in prison after being convicted of exporting more than half a tonne of cocaine to Australia worth $888 million (£700mn), according to a Daily Mail report.

Indian-origin ‘Breaking Bad’ couple jailed in UK for 33 years over drug smuggling

A worldwide operation against a Serbian drug network on Saturday resulted in the arrest of nine individuals, as Belgian officials seized almost 115 kilogrammes of cocaine, according to the prosecution.

Nine arrested in international operation against Serbian drug network

US officials have arrested Prime Minister of the British Virgin Island, Andrew Fahie under charges of drug smuggling and money laundering in the US state of Florida

British Virgin Island: PM Andrew Fahie under arrest in drug smuggling case

Following outrage among public and human rights activists, Singapore high court has temporarily stayed the execution of an intellectually disabled Malaysian man who was accused of smuggling heroin into the country.

Singapore court stays execution of man with learning disabilities accused of drug smuggling

The Jammu and Kashmir Police today busted the Pakistan-sponsored narco-terror module. One terror associate was arrested while 08 kgs of heroin worth crores recovered.

Police busts narco terror module, heroin worth 500 million recovered

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday arrested two people who frequently smuggled drugs to Hong Kong concealed inside courier parcels.In a statement, the NCB said that on September 9, acting on a tip-off, they had seized 11.

NCB arrests two from Kolkata for smuggling drugs to Hong Kong

A court in southern China sentenced a former politician from Japan to life imprisonment on Friday for attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country hidden in the soles of platform shoes.

China jails former Japanese politician for smuggling drugs in shoes

An Indonesian court Monday sentenced Frenchman Felix Dorfin to death for drug smuggling, in a surprise verdict after prosecutors asked for a 20-year jail term. Dorfin, 35, was arrested in September carrying the suitcase filled with about three kilograms including ecstasy and amphetamines at the airport in Lombok, a holiday island next to Bali where foreigners are routinely arrested on drugs charges.

Indonesian court sentences French drug smuggler to death

Ten members of rival civilian self-defence groups were killed in a gun battle in the Mexican state of Guerrero, a local security official said late Sunday. Guerrero, located on Mexico's southern Pacific coast, is one of the country's most violent regions, where rump groups of criminals belonging to defeated but once powerful drug cartels fight to control lucrative drug smuggling routes.

Ten killed in clash of Mexican self-defence forces

The United States will proceed with the formal extradition from Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Canada's ambassador to the United States told the Globe and Mail, in a move certain to ratchet up tensions with China.

US to formally seek extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou: Report

Canadian sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling

The women - named, Stephanie Caprio Policarpio - was allegedly arrested by the police the same day from a hotel in Central Delhi's Paharganj area, reports said

Watch: American woman arrested in Delhi with cocaine worth Rs 10 crore

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