10 years jail for French Polynesian drug smuggler
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In French Polynesia, 19 people have been sentenced in the territory's most significant drug trafficking trial to date. The case has become known locally as the "Vahine connection" because all except one of the accused were young Polynesian women used as mules to smuggle the drugs from the United States into Tahiti. The harshest sentence of 10 years was handed down to the ring leader, Teiva Spector, a French Polynesian who had been lving in the U-S.
Presenter: Helene Hofman
Speaker: Editor Tahiti-Pacific magazine, Alex du Prel
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