OSAKA (TR) – Officials right here this week introduced the arrest of a 35-year-old Brazilian for allegedly making an attempt to smuggle cocaine by swallowing greater than 70 rubber luggage of the unlawful drug earlier this 12 months, stories NHK (June 3).
At round 10:00 a.m. on April 16, Jessica Ramos de Souza allegedly tried to smuggle for revenue about 675 grams of cocaine inside 87 skinny rubber luggage from Brazil into Japan through Kansai International Airport.
The contraband has a road worth of about 16.88 million yen, in keeping with Osaka Customs.
Customs officers turned suspicious of de Souza resulting from a grim expression on her face. When they inspected her, they discovered 13 luggage of cocaine wrapped in a sock between her legs.
A subsequent X-ray examination at a medical establishment revealed a complete of 74 rubber luggage containing a mean of seven.8 grams of cocaine inside her physique.
The suspect has been accused of violating the Customs Act for the 74 luggage in her system and the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Control Act for the whole load of 87 luggage. Regarding the previous act, she denied the allegations. “There’s no doubt that I smuggled cocaine, but it wasn’t for profit,” she mentioned.
According to police, 46 of the 87 luggage had been present in her abdomen. Another 28 luggage later handed by way of her abdomen and had been collected after officers waited for them to be naturally excreted.
The 13 luggage discovered between her legs had in some way handed out of her physique earlier than arrival on the airport, officers mentioned.
According to Osaka Customs, that is the fifth case since final December wherein somebody has been arrested for making an attempt to smuggle cocaine from Brazil inside their system. Customs officers are persevering with the investigation, believing that a world smuggling group is behind the case.