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Article: Air Canada employees arrested on drug smuggling charges.
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- November 30, 2000
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A drug smuggling ring operating from Jamaica through Canada's Lester Pearson International Airport, Toronto has been cracked by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The bust followed an 11-month-long investigation and resulted in the arrest of six employees of Air Canada yesterday (29 November). The Air Canada employees hold positions in the maintenance and aircraft-cleaning sections of the carrier's operations and were among ten people arrested after some 40kg of cocaine, 20kg of hashish and 40kg of hash oil valued at about CAD8m were seized over the ...