High Court Corruption and Economic Crimes Division - 2025 December

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December 2025
Second accused convicted for heroin trafficking; others acquitted due to flawed searches and unreliable linking evidence.
Drug trafficking — Search and seizure — Lawfulness and presence of independent witness — Actual and constructive possession — Chain of custody — Expert analysis (Mecke and LC‑MS) confirms heroin — Admissibility/reliability of cautioned statement — Sentence of 25 years.
24 December 2025
The respondent’s criminal prosecution was struck out for failing to exhaust civil remedies under section 4(3) CPA.
Criminal procedure – section 4(3) Criminal Procedure Act – mandatory exhaustion of civil/administrative remedies before criminal prosecution – application to offences under the Penal Code – jurisdictional determination on committal disclosures – contractual disputes versus criminality; money laundering and predicate offence linkage.
17 December 2025