Mohammad Essa was arrested in Afghanistan in December last year and arrived in the United States last month after consenting to be moved, prosecutors said. He appeared in court the other day and was charged and ordered detained without bail.
US attorneys allege that from around 1990 until 2005 Essa was a member of the Baz Mohammad trafficking organization, which allegedly processed heroin in Afghanistan and Pakistan for export to the United States and other countries.
Essa is alleged to have managed the distribution of heroin by the organization's operatives in the United States and elsewhere.
The Baz Mohammad Organization also allegedly provided financial support to the hardline Islamic Taliban regime that ran Afghanistan until it was overthrown in a US-led military campaign in 2001, prosecutors said.
They further allege that Essa and his alleged co-conspirators collected drugs proceeds in the United States for the Taliban from 1994 through 2000.
According to Karen Tandy, administrator with the Drugs Enforcement Agency, Essa also used drug profits to support the insurgency against foreign troops in Afghanistan.
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