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“The narcos play a numbers game. The drug trafficking organisations are happy to accept a 15 to 20 per cent loss-ratio, but with fewer containers to check in ports, the odds are stacked further against them than normal,” said Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, a Medellín-based thinktank that investigates organised crime.
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Jeremy McDermott, co-director of the Medellin-based thinktank InSight Crime, said: “People are prepared to pay more money because it’s much harder to get your drugs than before when you could go out and meet your dealer. Now you have to use the drug delivery networks or the dark web. For the retail drug dealer it’s a dream scenario. For the drug producer it’s frustrating.”
