Foreigner Arrested at Mumbai Airport With Rs 11 Cr Cocaine Concealed In Body

Mumbai: Personnel of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested a Sierra Leone national who was trying to smuggle cocaine valued at Rs 11 crore hidden in his stomach. The cocaine was concealed in 74 ingested capsules by the arrested man.

The cocaine capsules, weighing 1,108 grams, were recovered from the man’s body by doctors at the JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday.

Based on specific information, the man was apprehended at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on March 28.

During interrogation, he confessed that he had ingested cocaine capsules in an attempt to sneak it to India.

The man was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and sent to judicial custody.

On March 24, a woman from Sierra Leone was arrested with 1,979 grams of cocaine valued at Rs 19.79 crore.