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A Kenyan woman was arrested at Chennai Airport in India after she was found in possession of Ksh215 million worth of cocaine.
The woman is said to have ingested the cocaine packed in capsules totalling a weight of 1.8 kilogrammes.
She had flown in from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and upon arrival at the Indian airport, the customs department grew suspicious of her demeanour and took her in for questioning.
During the interrogation, the customs department reported that the 35-year-old was dodging their questions and her stomach seemed strange.
A body scan confirmed the customs officers’ suspicions as they discovered she had several foreign objects in her stomach.
“Based on specific intelligence, a Kenyan female passenger who arrived in Chennai from Addis Ababa by Ethiopian Airlines on December 7 was intercepted by the Air Intelligence Unit,” the customs department said in an official statement released on December 17.
“On search of her person, she egested 90 cylindrical hyperdense objects with medical assistance. These objects tested positive for cocaine, a psychotropic substance covered under the NDPS Act, 1985.”
According to DTNEXT, the process of egesting all the 90 capsules from her body took two days.
She had been transported to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital where she was chemically assisted in removing the drugs from her body.
She later told law enforcement officials that she had been working for an international drug trafficking ring as a smuggler.
Upon further investigation, it was discovered that she had visited several other Indian cities, such as Mumbai and Delhi, multiple times, on a tourist visa.
Law enforcement officials in India are still investigating the matter as they seek to dismantle the drug smuggling syndicate.
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