The number of terrorists using the Arabian Gulf to launder drug-trafficking money is on the rise and countries in the region should reinforce the sharing of their intelligence and train local police forces to prevent smugglers from succeeding, experts say. Johan Obdola, the president of the International Organisation for Security and Intelligence, visited the UAE to meet its police forces.
He wanted to spread the message that the UAE and the region were targets for such criminals, or so-called narco-terrorists. Mr Obdola said there were several narco-terrorist groups from south and central America and Mexico that were doing a lot of drug trafficking in west Africa.
“The new routes that they are developing involve the GCC,” he said, adding there were members of Colombian and Mexican criminal gangs in the UAE to supply the demand or increase it for money laundering.
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