United States Department of Justice in collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Federal Ministry of Justice, have extradited a suspected Pakistani drug baron, Muhammad Khalid Khan, to the United States.
Khan, who is charged with attempted narcotics importation, conspiracy to import a controlled substance into the U.S., and international money laundering, was arrested at the request of the U.S. Justice Department in Nigeria pursuant to a federal arrest warrant issued in the Southern District of New York.
A statement released by the Public Affairs Section, United States Consulate General, Lagos, disclosed that Khan controlled an international drug trafficking and money laundering network responsible for trafficking narcotics to the U.S., Australia, Africa and Europe.
The statement reads: “His money-laundering network was widespread throughout the U.S., Australia, Canada, Africa, Europe and Asia. Muhammad Khalid Khan has been the target of multiple DEA investigations including those conducted by international DEA Offices in Lagos, Nigeria, Islamabad, Pakistan, and Sydney, Australia, and domestic offices in New York and the DEA Special Operations Division, as well international partnerships with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “Beginning in October 2017, DEA began investigating this Southwest Asia-based drug trafficker.
Over the course of several investigations, Khan was found to be responsible for trafficking multi-kilogram quantities of heroin and the importation of said heroin into the United States and Australia. NDLEA investigators in conjunction with the DEA Lagos Office ran a parallel investigation into Khan’s utilization of a Lagos-based Nigerian narcotics transportation network, in furtherance of distribution of southwest-Asian heroin to global markets.
“The U.S. Federal indictment out of the Southern District of New York charges Khan, 31, a citizen of Pakistan, on three counts: (1) attempting to import heroin into the United States, (2) international promotional money laundering, and (3) international concealment money laundering. “If convicted, Khan faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison on count one and a maximum sentence of 20 years on each of counts two and three.”
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