DEA NEWS: HAJI BAGCHO SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON ON DRUG AND NARCO-TERRORISM CHARGES

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*DEA NEWS: HAJI BAGCHO SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON ON DRUG*
*TRAFFICKING AND NARCO-TERRORISM CHARGES*WASHINGTON – An Afghan
national with ties to the Taliban was sentenced to life in prison
today for conspiring to distribute heroin to the United States and for
using drug proceeds to fund, arm and supply the Taliban, announced
Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's
Criminal Division and Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA).                 Haji Bagcho, an
Afghan national and large scale drug trafficker, was sentenced by U.S.
District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle in the District of Columbia.  In
addition to his prison term, Bagcho was ordered to forfeit
$254,203,032 in drug proceeds along with his property in Afghanistan.
  "This is DEA at its finest, working in close collaboration with our
Afghan partners to end the long reign of this Afghan drug lord whose
drug
proceeds financed terror," said DEA Administrator Leonhart.  "One of
the world's most prolific drug traffickers who helped fund the Taliban
will spend his remaining days behind bars in a U.S. prison due to the
relentless efforts of DEA, our Afghan counterparts and our prosecuting
partners."                           "Haji Bagcho led a massive drug
production and trafficking operation that supplied heroin in more than
20 countries, including the United States," said Assistant Attorney
General Breuer.  "In 2006 alone, he conducted heroin transactions
worth more than $250 million.  Bagcho used the profits of his
narcotics trafficking operation to support high-level Taliban
commanders in Afghanistan.  Today's life sentence is an appropriate
punishment for one of the most notorious heroin traffickers in the
world."               Bagcho was convicted by a jury on March 13,
2012, after a three week
trial, of one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more
of heroin, knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported
into the United States; one count of distribution of one kilogram or
more of heroin knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully
imported into the United States; and one count of narco-terrorism.
The trial, before Judge Huvelle, was only the second under the
narco-terrorism statute since its enactment in 2006.
Bagcho was charged in a superseding indictment on Jan. 28, 2010, after
his arrest and extradition to the United States from Afghanistan in
May 2009.               The DEA, in cooperation with their Afghan
counterparts, conducted the investigation, which revealed that Bagcho
was one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world and
manufactured the drug in clandestine laboratories along Afghanistan's
border region with Pakistan.  According to information
presented at trial, Bagcho, who had been operating his heroin
business since at least the 1990s, sent the drug to more than 20
countries, including the United States.  Proceeds from his heroin
trafficking were then used to support high-level members of the
Taliban in furtherance of their insurgency in Afghanistan.
  With the help of cooperating witnesses, evidence showed that the DEA
purchased heroin directly from Bagcho's organization on two occasions,
which Bagcho understood was destined for the United States.  They also
conducted several searches of residences belonging to Bagcho and his
associates, recovering evidence consistent with drug trafficking.
During one search, ledgers belonging to the defendant were found and
were later introduced at trial.  One ledger, cataloguing Bagcho's
activities during 2006 alone, reflected heroin transactions totaling
more than 123,000 kilograms, worth more than $250 million.  Based
on heroin production statistics compiled by the United Nations Office
of Drugs and Crime for 2006, the defendant's trafficking accounted for
approximately 20 percent of the total amount of heroin produced
worldwide that year.               Over several years, evidence at
trial established that Bagcho used a portion of his drug proceeds to
provide cash, weapons and other supplies to the former Taliban
governor of Nangarhar Province and two Taliban commanders responsible
for insurgent activity in eastern Afghanistan, so that they could
continue their "jihad" against western troops and the Afghan
government.               The case was prosecuted by Trial Attorneys
Matthew Stiglitz and Marlon Cobar of the Criminal Division's Narcotic
and Dangerous Drug Section.  The case was investigated by the DEA
Special Operations Division in the United States, with assistance from
the DEA's Foreign Deployed Advisory Support Team and
Kabul Country Office in Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, and
in close cooperation with Afghan law enforcement.  The Criminal
Division's Office of International Affairs and Asset Forfeiture and
Money Laundering Section provided invaluable support.
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