A VISITOR WAS FINED DH50,000 AND SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR SMUGGLING NEARLY 5 KILOS OF COCAINE

  • 14/11/2021

Dubai: The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld a ruling by the Court of First Instance that sentenced a visitor from a Latin American country to ten years in prison, a Dh50,000 fine, and deportation after serving his sentence for bringing four kilogrammes and 900 grammes of cocaine into the country.


According to the police report, the incident occurred in January of last year. When a customs inspector noticed the convict had an unusually large number of bags when he arrived at Dubai International Airport, he became suspicious. 

During the course of the investigation, the convict admitted that he knew a person in his home country who asked him to deliver the three bags to Dubai and hand them over to another person in exchange for $15,000 in cash (Dh55,000).

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