Guinea-Bissau's top court has overturned the convictions of two alleged drug kingpins in connection with the country's largest-ever narcotics seizure, a copy of the ruling showed on Monday.
Braima Seidi Ba, a citizen of Guinea-Bissau, and Ricardo Ariza Monje, a Colombian national, were sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in prison following the September 2019 seizure of 1.8 tonnes of cocaine hidden in flour bags.
It was the largest ever drug bust in Guinea-Bissau, a country the United Nations once dubbed the "narco state" of West Africa because of senior military and political leaders' involvement in the drug trade.
