The former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau and four others were ordered detained in New York on Friday after being arrested for an alleged trans-Atlantic cocaine trafficking plot. The highest-profile member of the alleged gang was Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, a US-designated drug "kingpin" who is alleged to have exploited political chaos in his West African homeland to establish himself as a major middleman in the international narcotics trade.
The five were presented before a Manhattan federal judge and ordered detained without bail, but did not enter pleas, the US prosecutor's office said in a statement. Separately, two more men in the alleged plot were arrested in Colombia, where they are alleged to have been in league with the country's narco-guerrilla organisation FARC.
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