(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A woman was caught trying to smuggle more than 2kg of cocaine under her clothes and in her underwear as she was transiting through at Dubai International Airport, a court heard.
The 29-year-old Thai woman, currently in provisional detention, has been charged by the Court of First Instance with smuggling drugs while on transit.
A woman police inspector told the prosecution that she was on the night shift duty at Terminal 3 of the airport on December 7 last year when she was ordered by a corporal to search the defendant. She did not find any narcotics in the defendant's purse. She took her inside the inspection room and as she reached down her waist, the accused allegedly grabbed the inspector's hand.
She found that the accused had strapped herself with a belt under her shirt. She used the belt to hide three small transparent bags.
She also found two similar bags the woman had hidden in her underwear. The five bags contained a white powder suspected to be drugs. The defendant told the officer that she did not know what was in the bags and claimed she was to deliver the quantity elsewhere and was passing here on transit.
The accused admitted during the prosecution investigation that she hid the drugs under her clothes and in her underwear and her job was to transport it to Brazil for $4,000.
According to the Criminal Lab report, the quantity seized from the defendant was cocaine and it weighed more than 2kg.
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