Guinea-Bissau police have arrested the head of the air traffic control tower at the country's main airport
Guinea-Bissau police have arrested the head of the air traffic control tower at the country's main airport after the seizure of a plane suspected of carrying cocaine, a senior police officer said on Sunday.The tiny former Portuguese colony has become a major hub for smugglers trafficking Colombian cocaine to Europe due to its poorly policed Atlantic shoreline and widespread corruption in an ill-resourced public administration, anti-drugs experts say.Last week authorities seized two planes suspected of being used by smugglers at the main international airport in the capital Bissau."The head of the control tower and his deputy were arrested at work. They were questioned and detained in the cells of the judicial police," a senior officer of the force, which covers drugs crimes, told Reuters on Sunday. The men, who are yet to appear in court, have not been charged.The officer declined to be named due to the sensitive nature of drugs investigations in Bissau, which U.N. offici...