A Nigerian transit
traveller, who was caught at the Dubai International Airport with 100 capsules
of cocaine in his stomach, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The Court of First
Instance convicted the 42-year-old Nigerian man of the charge of smuggling
drugs via transit, and ordered him to pay Dh100,000 worth of fine. He was
arrested on April 17th, 2016.
The sentencing will
be followed by deportation, the court ruled, and ordered confiscation of the
drugs.
"I was assigned
to stand guard on the accused at the hospital. He had just been referred by the
airport police officers after he was suspected of smuggling capsules containing
drugs in his stomach," a policeman told the prosecutor, adding that he
entered the operation room and witnessed as the doctors operated on the
defendant to take the drugs out of his stomach. As many as 100 capsules
containing drugs were found.
I seized and handed them over to the
anti-narcotics department," the police officer said.
According to a
report from the General Directorate of Criminal Evidence, the 100 capsules
seized from the accused contained cocaine and weighed 1.9 kgs.
The verdict has been
appealed.
Source: Khaleej
Times
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