A former drugs officer, said that taking cocaine funded organised crime and thus “the exploitation of women for the sex industry, slavery and gun violence” GETTY IMAGESCity bankers, middle-class students and middle-aged professionals must admit that their cocaine use is supporting slavery and murder, the former head of UK drug strategy has said. Wealthy takers of the drug were directly funding organised crime in the UK and abroad and failed or refused to see the connection to violence, extortion and servitude, Tony Saggers, former head of drugs threat at the National Crime Agency, said in his first interview since leaving the post. “These are middle-aged, middle-class people at dinner parties,” Mr Saggers told The Times. “They will find sweatshops abhorrent, slave labour a brutal, terrible thing to be happening in their neighbourhood, and the news that a 16-year-old has been knifed to death in London will shock them. Their children at…

Source: The Times August 28, 2017 23:03 UTC