Hi-tech cocaine smuggling a result of boom in profits

JUAN Carlos Melgar Alba is part of the new face of the cocaine business in Ireland.

Hi-tech cocaine smuggling a result of boom in profits
Wed, 14 Jul, 2004 - 01:00
Cormac O’Keeffe

The 39-year-old was brought in specifically as a chemist by international traffickers, possibly Nigerian, with links in Dublin.

His job was to extract cocaine which had been impregnated in liquid form into clothing using a solution of chemicals.

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