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BBC 12 June 2012 Last updated at 21:02 GMT
An Afghan man found guilty of funding the Taliban via one of the world's biggest heroin-trafficking rings has been sentenced to life in prison.
Haji Bagcho, 70, denied making heroin along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and sending it to over 20 countries.
His lawyers pointed to Bagcho's poor health and asked for leniency in the sentencing.
But the judge said Bagcho channelled an "astronomical" amount of drugs and the maximum sentence was appropriate.
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