The RCMP has charged two men in connection with an international criminal scheme that recruited women through online classified advertisements to smuggle drugs out of Canada via Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Following a nine-month investigation, the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) have charged 48-year-old Charles Adewoye of Toronto and 25-year-old Shamaarke Jafar Ismail of the United Kingdom in connection with a drug smuggling operation that officials intercepted and stopped before an additional 29 kilograms of cannabis could be shipped out of Canada, the CBSA said in a Dec. 22 press release.
The investigation began after Nigerian authorities arrested two Canadian women for trying to smuggle cannabis into the country, officials said. The women had been recruited through classified ads on the online platform “LeoList” that promised up to $20,000 for transporting illicit drugs into and out of Canada. The ads targeted women aged 20 to 65….