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How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state

Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers across two continents, a Guardian investigation reveals the murderous cost of our insatiable appetite for cocaine As abductions go, few have been more brazen.

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