AMMAN —The State Security Court Monday found 11
people, including foreign nationals and local companies, guilty of setting up a
narcotics laboratory on Jordanian soil. According to the Jordan News Agency,
Petra, they were handed 30-year prison terms with temporary hard labor and
JD30,000 against six of the convicts.
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The court held a public hearing to announce the verdict,
which included the conviction of the main defendant in the case — who
established the facility and used all methods to manufacture drugs from 2009 up
till his arrest in 2018 — and five accomplices.
The rest of the convicts received jail terms of 5–15 years
with temporary hard labor, along with two local companies, but the court
dropped the common right lawsuit against one of the accused, who died during
the course of the trial, and commuted the penalty of one of the convicts who
had complete paralysis.
The Military Public Prosecution has demanded the maximum
penalty stipulated in the law against the convicts "due to the seriousness
of this organized crime, which targeted Jordanian society, to achieve
deterrence."
The court ordered the confiscation of the narcotic drugs,
chemical precursors, their components and accessories, machinery, tools,
equipment, devices, mixers, vehicles, means of transportation, and the cash
seized. It also ordered the precautionary seizure of the movable and immovable
assets of the convicts.
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