UAE authorities have foiled a suspected drug mule who tried to smuggle 1.5kg of pure heroine, worth some Dh750,000, by hiding it inside his stomach.
At the RAK International Airport, the Asian suspect who was nabbed red-handed with 115 plastic-wrapped heroin packets inside his guts.
Brigadier Dr Mohammed Al Mahrazi, Director General of the RAK Customs, said the customs inspectors suspected the passenger who looked unnaturally frantic, anxious, and tired, reported KT.
“His luggage was manually searched and scanned, but nothing unusual was found. The X-ray scan done later showed an amount of strange objects inside his stomach.”
When asked about the nature of those objects, the suspect confessed to having swallowed packets stuffed with narcotics, he added.
Weirdly, the trafficker claimed to be aware of the content or number of the narcotics. “I didn’t know what kind of drug they contained neither did I know how many they were.”
