Cocaine worth Rs20 million confiscated during one week in Karachi
Last updated on: 17 December,2018 01:47 pm
Cocaine smuggling cases have increased before the start of New Year.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Cocaine worth more than Rs20 million has been confiscated during three different actions at Karachi airport while 2 foreigners have also been arrested.
The smugglers, who succeeded to make their way to Pakistan even after crossing through scanning machines on Dubai and Qatar airports, have been arrested by the customs officials at Karachi Airport.
The customs staff deployed at Karachi Airport successfully recovered around nine kilograms of cocaine powder.
According to the sources, the smuggling of cocaine has been increasing before the beginning of New Year for which the smugglers mafia is using air, land and sea ways.
It has also been told that cocaine from Columbia and Mexico can be easily be pasted and that’s the reason smugglers hide it in different boxes and bags which makes it go clear even through scanning machines.
Customs officials told that cocaine powder can easily be hidden and during the recent activities, it has been recovered from simple cloth bags where cocaine was pasted inside in such a way that no one could detect it. However, when Customs officials weighed empty bags, the weight was more than usual after which the staff successfully recovered cocaine from the bags while arresting the suspects.