TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED

Closes Book On Biggest Hash Plot

Two more men involved in importing a record-breaking amount of
hashish from Pakistan were sentenced yesterday, closing the book on a
plot involving four members of the West End Gang, a boat and $225
million worth of drugs.

Sidney Lallouz, 57, was given 61/2 years for his role after pleading
guilty to conspiracy to import drugs and trafficking. Andrew Toman,
the 24-year-old son of the plot's kingpin, was sentenced to two years
in a federal penitentiary. Both men are not allowed to own weapons
for 10 years after their release.

Peter Toman, whose wife, Catherine, is clinical director at Heritage
Home, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Huntington, near
the U.S. border, was sentenced in August to 11 years for his role as
mastermind of the scheme. His son-in-law, Shawn Daoust, was sentenced
at the same time to four years after pleading guilty to plotting to
transport the drug shipment from Halifax to Montreal.

Lallouz travelled to Britain and various other countries where he
made contact with drug suppliers, then relayed the information to
Peter Toman, who then unwittingly met with undercover RCMP officers,
according to crown prosecutor Silvie Kovacevich.

The 22.5-tonne drug shipment - six times the amount of all the drugs
seized in any one year in Canada - left Pakistan in May. The
contraband, packed in small foil envelopes labelled as coffee, was
later loaded onto a ship off the coast of Angola.

What they didn't know was that the RCMP, hired as middlemen in the
transaction, were operating the ship and videotaping the entire exchange.

The RCMP, as instructed, took the drugs to Canada and delivered them
to a home in St. Jean sur Richelieu.