Solomon Adelaquaye, the managing
director of Sohin Security, Ghana (a private security firm) which has security
contracts at airports across the country, was charged of heroin trafficking alongside
his Colombian and two Nigerian co-conspirators,
Ghana's Narcotics Control Board
and the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said.
In February 2012, Adelaquaye used
his influence at the airport to guide a laptop packed with heroin through
security in exchange for $10 000, according to the DEA.
Then, last month, the group made new
plans to move 3 000kg of cocaine through Accra in 25kg installments. All of their negotiations, held
mainly in Accra, were caught on tape by uncover DEA agents, statements said.
Adelaquaye, 48, "who was
responsible for security at the international airport in Ghana" and the
two Nigerians - Frank Muodum, and Celestine Ofor Orjinweke - were arrested in
New York on May 9, their Colombian counterpart, Samuel Antonio Pinedo-Rueda, 72, was arrested
in on May 16 and is awaiting extradition, the DEA said.
"Drug trafficking in west
Africa has become a plague," Derek Maltz, DEA special agent said in the
June 3 statements.
Documents filed to a federal court
in New York, where the group has been charged, said the heroin came from
Afghanistan, which had been brought to Ghana by Pinedo-Rueda.
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