Local Arabic daily Arrayah reported that the defendant's accomplice, a Lebanese man, was sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of QR500,000 by the court of first instance for money laundering charges in addition to his part in the illicit drug trade. A third accused, also a Lebanese man, was acquitted by the same court.
According to the file of the case, the Drug Prevention Department of the Ministry of Interior received information that the Colombian woman had brought five kg of cocaine and stored it in a hotel room in Doha in preparation for sale.
An undercover officer approached the woman as a potential customer, and they agreed to meet at the hotel. When they ultimately met, the woman showed him a sample of cocaine.
Then, she called the second defendant to the hotel to bring her QR3mn to get the drugs but he did not show up and send his friend promising to pay him $10,000 for the delivery process.
All these interactions were under the surveillance of the police. All defendants were arrested and upon further search of their rooms and vehicles the money and illicit drugs were found and seized, in addition to 13 SIMs from different countries used by the second defendant for his illicit transactions.