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Mozambique: Cocaine seized at Maputo airport
3:51 CAT | 18 Aug 2022
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The Mozambican authorities have arrested a citizen from Ivory Coast at Maputo International Airport, when cocaine was found in his luggage.
According to a spokesperson for the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic), cited in Thursday’s issue of the independent daily “O Pais”, the drug was hidden inside battery-operated electric torches. Sernic did not say how much cocaine was found, merely that it was hidden in 15 torches.
The Ivory Coast citizen, who has not been named, denied that he was the owner of the luggage in which the drug was found.
“I’m very surprised and angered because I don’t know how they put a bag in my name in with my other belongings”, he told reporters. “They said I had three bags and that’s what’s on the ticket, but I don’t recognise it. I only brought one bag. So I’m confused and I don’t know what to do”.
This is the second drugs seizure at the airport in less than a month.
Source: AIM
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