USG sentenced , Abdul Sattar Manaf(Barakzai) to 30 years in prison for attempting to import heroin into the U.S. and “engaging in narco-terrorism for the benefit of the Taliban and Haqqani Network”

In addition to the prison term, Manaf was sentenced to five years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit the proceeds of his crimes.

The DEA Special Operations Division’s Bilateral Investigations Unit; the DEA European Regional Director; the DEA Copenhagen, Canberra, Dubai, Islamabad, Kabul, New Delhi, and Sydney Country Offices; the Government of Estonia; and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sam Adelsberg, Nicholas S. Bradley, and Kimberly J. Ravener for the Southern District of New York are prosecuting the case with assistance from Trial Attorney Joshua Champagne of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.