Local Arabic daily Arrayah reported yesterday that the defendant was arrested at Hamad International Airport (HIA) with four kg of cocaine, hidden in children's toys and inside his stomach as capsules, which he had swallowed two days before he travelled.
According to the file of the case, the defendant was travelling from Brazil to Sierra Leone, and stopped as a transit traveller at HIA. However, the authorities concerned in Brazil reported to HIA that the defendant was carrying with him illicit drugs. Accordingly, he was submitted to a thorough search, during which the cocaine sachets hidden inside kids' toys were found.
He was taken to the hospital to recover the capsules he had swallowed. The value of the cocaine recovered from him was estimated to be QR10mn. At the interrogation, he admitted that a person gave him the illicit drugs in Brazil to take to Sierra Leone for a reward of $2,000.
