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Asian caught with drugs claims he’s only a “messenger”

An Asian man caught trying to smuggle drugs to Bahrain told court that the stuff does not belong to him and that he was only acting as a messenger.

Customs men at Manama Airport found several plastic bags containing drugs in the man’s bag and a small amount concealed inside his shoe sole.

In court, the unnamed defendant told the judge that he was given the drugs by a man in his home country to deliver it to a woman in return for 750 dinars ($2,000).

“He claimed he did not possess the drugs and was only acting as a messenger… but the judge found him guilty and sentenced him to five years in prison, fined him 3,000  dinars ($7,600) and ordered him deported from Bahrain,” the Bahraini Arabic language daily Akhbar Al Khaleej said.

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