Mumbai: A Venezuelan national was on Wednesday arrested by customs' air intelligence unit (AIU) for possessing 1.2kg of the drug methaqualone worth Rs 3 crore. The woman, Luisa Garcia Lopez (27), told officials she was supposed to deliver the contraband to someone at a prominent hospital in South Mumbai. She is now in the custody of the narcotics control bureau (NCB), which is investigating the matter.
The NCB is using a translator to interrogate the Spanish-speaking accused, who was intercepted at the airport, so that the person the consignment was meant for can be identified. Lopez was cornered based on a specific tip-off. She arrived in Mumbai from Sao Paulo via Dubai by an Emirates flight. A search of her baggage yielded nine wooden cloth hangers. Finding the nature and the quantity of the item to be suspicious, the AIU put the hangers into the screened machine, which revealed hollow interiors filled with some substance. "We broke open a hanger to find white powder, which we suspected to be a banned drug. With the help of a spot testing kit, we found the power to be methaqualone," said an officer.
27/12/18 Times of India
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The NCB is using a translator to interrogate the Spanish-speaking accused, who was intercepted at the airport, so that the person the consignment was meant for can be identified. Lopez was cornered based on a specific tip-off. She arrived in Mumbai from Sao Paulo via Dubai by an Emirates flight. A search of her baggage yielded nine wooden cloth hangers. Finding the nature and the quantity of the item to be suspicious, the AIU put the hangers into the screened machine, which revealed hollow interiors filled with some substance. "We broke open a hanger to find white powder, which we suspected to be a banned drug. With the help of a spot testing kit, we found the power to be methaqualone," said an officer.
27/12/18 Times of India
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