Two South East Asian women carrying 6kg of cocaine worth over Rs3 crore in the Indian market were detained on Wednesday at the Mumbai airport. They had arrived from South Africa on an Ethiopian Airways flight and were headed to Singapore.
Vietnamese Ly Leogse, a 64-year-old professor of English and French, and Indonesian businesswoman Adma Siregar, 45, were apprehended by the air intelligence unit (AIU) of Mumbai Customs after a tip-off.
Experts say this detention has revealed that drug smugglers may have changed their modus operandi to avoid detection. Instead of using regular carriers from countries like Nigeria, Israel and Russia, who are usually on the radar of customs officials, smugglers are opting for South East Asian carriers from respectable backgrounds so that they don’t raise suspicion. Full story
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