3 Kg heroin for China caught in Chennai

Chennai: A gang of Nigerians in Delhi thought a Filipina could beat law enforcement agencies in Chennai and smuggle a consignment of heroin to China. But they were outsmarted by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence sleuths who arrested Raechel Benito, a 31-year-old woman from Philipines, who was found in possession of 3 kg heroin,worth Rs 3 crore in the international market.
DRI officials intercepted Benito at Chennai airport before she could board the Jet Airways flight 9W0032 to Kuala Lumpur. When they checked her American Tourister trolley bag, they found the heroin wrapped in polythene bag and sealed with plastic adhesive tape and concealed under a false bottom.
Raechel Benito was holding her Philippines passport. "She came to Chennai from Delhi by a Jet Airways flight. She landed 10.30 p.m. and was about to leave for Kuala Lumpur by a late night flight. She was planning to fly to China from Kuala Lumpur," P Babu, additional director general of DRI, Chennai, told The Times Of India.
30/04/08 K Praveen Kumar/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Apr 2008