Two international drug dealing cases that have unfolded in the US have something specific in common aside from allegations of sprawling narcotics networks — both have links firmly anchored in South Africa.
In the one case, that culminated in Cuban drug dealer Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido being sentenced to five years in jail earlier this month, it was alleged that he fled the US in 1997 and based himself in South Africa, from where he resumed his drug operations.
The second case centres on Indian drug kingpin Vijaygiri “Vicky” Goswami who, along with others including two brothers from Kenya, was accused of running a global drug dealing network.