Dubai airport has become a transit point for smugglers bringing high-value narcotics into Europe, the Italian police said on Monday.
Two smugglers have been arrested in recent days at Rome’s Fiumicino airport after arriving via Dubai, they said.
One was a 19-year-old Slovak with two kilos of cocaine stashed in a false bottom of his suitcase who had departed from Rio de Janeiro, while the other was a Nigerian who hid vials of cocaine in his socks.
The street value of the two seizures was put at around half a million dollars.
The smugglers do not leave Dubai’s transit lounge, as this would expose them to customs checks, the police said in a press release.
Instead, they use the Dubai-Europe leg and the tough anti-drug reputation of the United Arab Emirates to mask the country where they began their trip.
One million dollars of cocaine seized in two smuggle attempts? It sounds like the guy who had it in his suitcase had lots of drugs on him. I'm not sure what two kilos of cocaine looks like though. How big were these vials? Good thing the drugs were found before they were smuggled.
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