Nigerian Broker Sentenced for Conspiring to Illegally Import Narcotics
On July 28, 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York announced that Chigbo Peter Umeh was sentenced to prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S. Umeh was a broker who facilitated the shipment…
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of multi-ton quantities of cocaine from South America to West Africa, where it would then be transported to Europe or elsewhere within Africa. He attempted to bribe high-level officials within the Liberian Government in order to protect shipments of cocaine and to use the country as a trans-shipment point for his drug distribution operations.