From South America to the Solomon Islands, Foreign Correspondent reveals the new smuggling tactics being used by cartels to send eye-watering quantities of drugs across the Pacific. Senior reporter Stephanie March and Solomon Islands reporter Chrisnrita Aumanu-Leong go hunting for “narco subs” and the men who cross the ocean in them. In Tonga, we reveal how the hard-line deportation policies of countries like Australia, are exporting criminal gang know-how to this island nation. In an exclusive jail-house interview Stephanie March and ABC Tonga reporter Marian Kupu meet the man who has become synonymous with the country’s drug gang and deportee problem.
This is part two of a major investigation looking at the drug crisis in the islands of the Pacific – a crisis which is turning paradise into a pit stop on a drug smuggling superhighway and ensnaring our neighbours in a sinister web of transitional crime.
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