Kenyan national arrested for smuggling ₹6.68 crore worth cocaine at Kochi airport

However, personal and baggage searches resulted in nil recovery of drugs.

Officers, on the reasonable belief that drugs might be concealed inside his body, subjected the passenger to X-ray screening at a private hospital, which showed a positive indication for foreign bodies inside his stomach.

The passenger was admitted to another private hospital in Angamaly for the extraction of concealed foreign bodies inside his stomach, which the passenger had swallowed.

“With excellent support provided by the doctors and staff of the hospital and a week-long effort, around 50 capsules of foreign bodies were recovered, and upon testing, all the capsules tested positive for cocaine. 668 grams of cocaine worth ₹6.68 crores were seized by DRI,” he said.

The accused was produced before the Judicial First-Class Magistrate’s Court, Angamaly, and was remanded to Aluva Sub Jail during the early hours of Friday, 26 April.

Officials said further investigation is ongoing.

Cochin Airport is under red alert for a similar modus operandi of smuggling of narcotic drugs, they added.

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