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Visitor stuns policeman at airport with bag of drugs

Man confessed that he wanted to send cocaine to Switzerland.

  • By Bassam Za'za'Senior Reporter
  • Published: 00:07 July 4, 2008
  • Gulf News

Dubai: A policeman at the airport was surprised when a visitor approached him to hand in a 4kg-bag of cocaine that he intended to send to Switzerland.

"I am guilty of illegally bringing in and possessing cocaine that I was planning to send to Switzerland," the 39-year-old South African told the Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday.

'Joking'

Records said an Emirati policeman at first thought the South African was joking when he approached the police counter at Dubai International Airport to hand over the drugs.

"He said he was carrying cocaine and wanted to hand it over. I informed my supervisor who took him to a search room.

"We found ten pouches of suspected drugs inside one of his bags," the 22-year-old policeman testified.

The Public Prosecution charged the visitor, identified as M.V., with smuggling and possessing about 4kg of cocaine with the intention of exporting them to outside the country.

Public Prosecution records said initially the policemen didn't believe the suspect when he told him that he was carrying drugs.

The visitor confessed to his interrogators at the Public Prosecution that a Nigerian suspect had asked him to transport the cocaine to someone in Zurich in Switzerland.

The court will issue its ruling soon.

He said he was carrying cocaine and he wanted to hand it over. I informed my supervisor who took him to a search room. We found ten pouches of suspected drugs."

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