Cocaine worth Rs.45 m seized
A haul of cocaine worth Rs 45 million was seized at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) by Customs officials from a Filipino national who came from Brazil yesterday morning.
The drug smuggler travelling from Sao Paolo, Brazil to Thailand via Doha, Qatar on flight QR 300 disembarked at the BIA as a transit passenger around 8.30 am yesterday. Customs officials arrested him on suspicion and found three kilos of cocaine in his hand luggage.
Deputy Custom Superintendent of the Customs Special Investigation Unit Vipula Fernando said that the detection was one of the biggest hauls of cocaine made in recent times.
The suspect was handed to the BOI Police Narcotic Bureau for further investigations. Assitant Customs Superintendents, Nandana Jayathilaka, Y S Kahatagahawatte, Customs Narcotic Control Unit superintendent Nihal Alahapperuma and Deputy Customs superintendent D D S C Micheal were involved in the arrest.
Courtesy: Daily News
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That’s a good job done by the Customs Officers. If all the other officers do good job, Sri Lanka will be a rich country.
This is a consignment sent by Kudu Duminda from Singapore. The guy is faking the extent of his injuries and instead organising the illegal stuff to be sent to Lanka. MR’s “official” trip to Singapore is fake too as he went there to give instructions to Duminda but failed to notify Customs at Katunayake to turn a blind eye.