Retail heroin bags in New York were often individual seizure to the drug trade in other parts of marked with stamps and signs that referred to the the world and lead to the identification of the net- drug trafficking group they were bought from or to works of criminals involved in the production, trans- the quality of the drug itself which was considered portation, and distribution of Afghan opiat. [...] Some were of the opinion that hand-pressed stamps allow customers to return the product to the producers if the quality of the heroin has not met expectations, and consequently the customers may Stamps are observed hand-pressed along the seams not pay the previously agreed price. [...] In two cases, the stamps noted two sequences of digits: in the first case, they were Two key informants associated those numbers with two sequences of identical digits (999 and 555); in the quality of the heroin but did not detail the link the second instance, it was a combination of identi- between the number and the purity. [...] The most frequently observed languages of strongly associated with the location of the drug Pashto and Urdu seem to point towards the south production and therefore likely often linked with the or east of Afghanistan and Pakistan as two major producers and the destination of the illicit drugs, production sources for heroin circulating along the linked to the traffickers or end customer. [...] The analysis of the records of heroin packages The drugs with these stamps were seized together seized in the Indian Ocean between 2017-2021 indi- on 4th September 2021 cates that there is a maximum of three years differ- ence between the year of seizures and the year put on the stamps.
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