DUBAI: A smuggler’s dream of easy money turned sour as Customs officers foiled a Dubai-bound passenger’s bid to smuggle in around 1kg haul of heroin in his stomach at Dubai International Airport – Terminal 2.
The disenchanted trafficker, of Asian nationality, risked his life trying to hide 78 plastic-wrapped heroin packets in his guts.
Falah Khalil Al Sammak, manager of passenger customs operations at DXB Terminal 2, described the incident as the largest drug seizure ever recovered from a single trafficker’s intestines this year.
Dubai Customs inspectors became suspicious of the passenger when he walked past passport control area into customs inspection zone, because he looked unnaturally frantic and anxious,” he said.
His luggage was manually searched and scanned, but nothing unusual was found. So X-rays were carried out on his abdomen which detected a quantity of strange objects inside.
“When asked about the nature of those objects, the suspect confessed to having swallowed packets stuffed with narcotics,” added Al Sammak.
