106 cocaine capsules in her stomach, Brazilian woman held at Delhi airport
106 cocaine capsules in her stomach, Brazilian woman held at Delhi airport
A Brazillian woman has been arrested by the Narcotics control bureau with 106 capsules of cocaine in her stomach from Indira Gandhi international (IGI) airport.
The woman was caught on May 14 soon after she landed at the Delhi airport in a flight from Sao Paulo in Brazil.
The 106 capsules weighing around 930 grams of pure South American cocaine and worth around Rs 6 crore were extracted from her body between May 14 and 20, officials confirmed.
“This is the highest number of capsules of cocaine extracted from any professional drugs swallower by the NCB’s Delhi bureau,” said Vishwa Vijay, superintendent of NCB’s Delhi unit.
The consignment of the cocaine was to be delivered to a Nigerian national in Delhi. The woman told NCB officials that her handler in Sao Paulo had asked her to reach a hotel in Karol Bagh and stay there until orders were released for her to shift.
“The Nigerian national, who had to accept the consignment, was supposed to meet her in the hotel. The woman was promised USD 5,000 for successfully delivering the consignment of cocaine,” said a senior NCB official.
On Sunday, the woman was produced before a city court that sent her to Tihar jail.
The NCB official said the Brazilian woman is a ‘professional swallower of drugs’ and had visited India at least three times in the past.“Each time, she was travelling on a tourist Visa. Her passport details have shown that her last visit to Delhi was in February this year,” said the official.
-PTC News
