Abu Dhabi: Customs officials arrested an Asian man at Ras Al-Khaimah Airport as he was trying to smuggle heroin worth AED500,000 in his abdomen.
The man fell sick and was taken to a hospital where 128 capsules weighing 1.036 kilogrammes of heroin were detected in his stomach.
The anti-narcotics squads arrested the man on his arrival at the airport, reported local Arabic daily Emarat Al Youm.
Colonel Ebrahim Ali Kaptin, Director-General of the Ras Al Khaimah Police’s Anti-Narcotics Department, said police were tipped off about the suspect, who was visiting the country.
During interrogation, he confessed to attempting to smuggle heroin into the United Arab Emirates.
He told police that two traffickers from his country hired him to smuggle heroin into UAE in exchange for a sum of money per capsule.
Police have referred him to the Public Prosecution.
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