Guyana’s Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says that he will welcome any information from the international collaboration that busted a Mafia-style drug smuggling ring that has linkages to this country.Yesterday,NFL Jerseys 2018, in the wake of a sensational news report that identified Guyana as a port through which massive amounts of cocaine are shipped by the busted Trans-Atlantic crime organization, Rohee said that he would love for local law enforcement to join in the dismantling of any criminal organisation that is involved in the trading of illegal drugs.Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee“I am always happy whenever large amounts of cocaine are seized in any part of the world because it is consistent with the (international) fight against drug trafficking.“And so law enforcement whether it’s in Guyana, whether it’s in the United States,Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Mens Trainers, Europe or Africa, I think any time they score victories such as this they should be welcomed and we are happy to be part of that law enforcement exercise,” Rohee stated.Several international news agencies reported that two dozen suspected drug traffickers linked to the Gambino and Bonanno crime families and to the Italian crime syndicate known as ‘Ndrangheta, were arrested on Tuesday in New York and Italy during a coordinated American-Italian operation.The raids targeted a network of drug smugglers that stretched from Guyana to Italy to Malaysia to the United States.? There were seven arrests in New York and 17 arrests near the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro, a notorious hub of organized crime.An undercover agent recorded alleged Gambino associate Franco Lupoi and others plotting to transport 500 kilograms of cocaine hidden in shipments of frozen fish or pineapples, according to court documents.Prosecutors found $7 million worth of cocaine hidden in crates of pineapples and coconut milk.In September 2012,Wholesale Baseball Jerseys, Lupoi was recorded explaining to an undercover agent that he had contacts in Guyana who could arrange the shipment of cocaine to his contacts in Italy, court records state.? Lupoi said he had “a great connect” who could “pack it [cocaine] into the fish,” and then “freeze it in a block,” according to court records.Lupoi told the undercover agent that the supplier was a “Mexican with the cartels” who would ship it from Guyana to Italy, and possibly on to Canada where Lupoi had “buyers to buy it up in Canada,” the documents state.These revelations are sure to raise eyebrows in Guyana especially since local law enforcement has not made any significant arrests despite the huge busts overseas of cocaine originating from Guyana.Reliable sources have informed that the Guyana Police Force and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) were kept in the dark and were only made aware of Tuesday’s crackdown through the international and local media.“Normally they (international investigators) would send but we have not received any word yet from them,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,” a senior police official told Kaieteur News.A few weeks ago Home Affairs Minister Rohee in response to media questions had indicated that reports of drug lords operating in Guyana were anecdotal.“First of all somebody has to point out to us who are these drug lords or who are these drug barons. Most of these things are anecdotal…People walk around and they say ‘This is a drug lord, that is a drug baron’, but I don’t think that law enforcement can work on that kind of situation, lest they make themselves a fool in front of the court,” Rohee had said.At the time he did not say if the local law enforcement agencies were using the “anecdotal evidence” to put any suspected drug dealer under surveillance.“Until such time that there is incontrovertible evidence that is produced before my own eyes,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, I am not one that is going to walk around the country pointing fingers in that direction,Cheap NFL Jerseys Stitched,” the Home Affairs Minister had stated.Yesterday, Minister Rohee said that he is awaiting a report from the local law enforcement with regards to the new revelations, with specific reference to whether information about the Trans-Atlantic crackdown was shared with the Guyana Police Force and CANU.So far there is no indication that the international drug agencies have contacted their local counterparts with regards to the obvious connections here which they have reportedly unearthed.“Whatever information they have available and they can make it available to us we are happy to know it because maybe if there are links to Guyana then we of course will in the context of international cooperation join with them