Drug smuggling
Drug smuggling is the illegal, mostly undercover, bringing of drugs across a border . The unlawfulness already results from the fact that the contraband itself is considered an illegal substance (“drug”) in at least one of the geographical areas concerned. Other unlawful circumstances, such as the failure to clear customs , may also arise.
In a broader sense, drug smuggling also refers to the bringing of drugs to specific facilities, such as prisons in particular .
Expressions
Organized drug smuggling
In order to reduce the risk of detection, modern drug smuggling is organized according to a division of labor , with the actual delivery of the drugs being carried out by couriers , the so-called pack donkeys, who play a subordinate role within the organization.
In a special form of pack donkey, the drugs, mostly packed in finger cots, are swallowed by the pack donkey in the country of origin or dispatch or introduced into body openings ( body packing ) in order to smuggle them into the body to the destination country, where they are excreted or removed under controlled conditions become. These people often work out of financial need, receive correspondingly little pay, but at the same time bear both the legal and, above all, the health risk, because a leaky finger cot can mean death for the person concerned.
Private drug smuggling
Drug smuggling also takes place in the private sphere, that is, with drugs intended for personal use.
Legal
Aside from the illegality of smuggling per se, drug smuggling harbors certain legal risks, primarily caused by different national legislations. The term `` drug '' is not uniformly regulated internationally, and any national standards that allow small amounts of drugs to be used for personal use differ from one another. Punitive threats differ greatly. In countries in the Middle East and Asia in particular, drug smuggling is sometimes subject to the death penalty (for example in Thailand or China), while in Western Europe there is comparatively mild legislation.
In Germany , drug smuggling is a violation of the Narcotics Act (BtMG) and therefore a criminal offense . Section 29 of the BtMG criminalizes the importation of drugs . For organized drug smuggling, Section 30 of the BtMG contains increased penalties for those cases in which the offenses are committed as a member of a gang or on a commercial basis.
The same applies to the Swiss Narcotics Act .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Smuggling to Prison: Drone Drugs. In: Der Spiegel . January 24, 2015, accessed August 4, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Simone Rau: What the prison director does against drug smuggling. In: Tages-Anzeiger . December 30, 2010, accessed August 4, 2015 .
- ^ A b Matthias Thibaut: Drug Smugglers - British outraged about execution in China. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 29, 2009, accessed August 4, 2015 .
- ↑ a b J. Wedl, Schweizerische Depeschenagentur : The big business on the Schlucker toilet. In: 20 minutes . August 23, 2011, accessed August 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Beat Bumbacher: Swiss face the death penalty for drug smuggling. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 12, 2011, accessed March 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Art. 19 para. 1 lit. b BetmG. In: Systematic collection of federal laws. Retrieved March 27, 2012 .
