Iran, hanged as the Crocodile of the Gulf for drug trafficking

TEHRAN - a Fugitive for years and usually use a variety of disguises and pseudonyms, the drug trafficker year old known as "The Crocodile of the Persian Gulf" was arrested and hanged in Iran. The man was executed with an accomplice. To report the news, quoted by the news agency of iran Fars, was Ali Salehi, the chief public prosecutor of Hormozgan, which, however, has not revealed the names of the two men, but only their initials: A. Z. and M. H.

"The Crocodile was captured while moved more than a hundred tons of drugs in international waters," said Salehi. The investigation went on for at least four years and the last year have led to the capture of the man and the dismantling of an international network of drug trafficking. 18 other people were sentenced to five years in prison or heavy fines in the context of this operation, referring to the site Mizan Online. The ganges riciclava money and used the proceeds of drug trafficking to purchase real estate, some of which were seized by the government. The death penalty in Iran In Iran are sentenced to death each year, hundreds of prisoners, but iran does not publish official statistics on executions. The organization Iran Human Rights (Ihr) reported that they would be at least 110 executions carried out in Iran in the first half of 2019. According to Amnesty International, the Country has executed at least 253 people in 2018. In the ranking on a global scale stilala by Amnesty International, in 2018, Iran is the second Country in the world for number of executions, behind only China, which more than a thousand cases. This is a very high number, but in a decided decrease from the previous year, reports the Bbc, when in Iran were executed 507 people.