DUBAI: A woman passenger has been accused of smuggling 4.6kg of cocaine hidden in her undergarments at Dubai International Airport.
A law enforcement officer was said to have stopped the 42-year-old Zambian woman, O.M., as she was walking suspiciously to the transit terminal in April.
After searching her, the woman was found to be wearing beige elasticised shorts in which she hid eight plastic pouches containing cocaine.
Drugs prosecutors charged O.M. with possessing and smuggling drugs via Dubai in transit.
The Zambian woman pleaded guilty when she appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.
“Yes, I got the cocaine with me,” she told presiding judge Mohammad Jamal.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the defendant hid 1.4kg of cocaine in the shorts and 3.2kg of the same drug in her underwear.
An anti-narcotics police sergeant testified to prosecutors that the woman traveller was stopped at the transit terminal shortly after her plane arrived from Brazil.
