Highly-Placed Individual Said to Be Making Millions Ottawa, Nov. 19.
Before the Customs Inquiry Commission to-day Inspector Cowan of] the Dominion Health Department, alleged that a highly-placed Canadian was making millions of dollars by supplying narcotics to unto tunate addicts and it was impossible] to obtain evidence to prosecute him.
Inspector Cowan said that the person in question went abroad and negotiated for the illicit importation to Canada of 100,000 ounces of] jareoties for which he paid under $10 an ounce and subsequently retailed it in Canada at prices between! $50 and $100 an ounce.
The drug business was in the hands of an international ring consisting of Mehly-placed, men in Canada, the United States!
Four hundred and fifty persons involved in drug traffic had been deported from Canada in five years and several shipments of drugs from Japan had been intercepted in Pacific ports—Reuter.
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