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A couple has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars for smuggling more than 6kg of hashish concealed as food, stuffed in a suitcase between children’s toys, nuts and sweet.
The man and woman were reportedly sent to Bahrain by a drug dealer in Pakistan, to hand over the narcotics to an operative located in Bahrain.
They arrived from Thailand via Abu Dhabi.
The High Criminal Court also ruled to fine the Pakistani couple BD5,000 each, and deport them after completing their sentence.
A Customs Affairs officer, while scanning incoming suitcases at Bahrain International Airport, noticed ‘a high density of items’ in two bags, and marked the luggage with an ‘X’ so it could be searched thoroughly.
The defendants were directed to the ‘Red Lane’ where ‘herbs’, later lab-tested and confirmed to be marijuana, was found in the bags, weighing a total of 6.54kg.
The Anti-Narcotics Directorate was informed and the defendants were arrested. They confessed to having received the bags in Thailand, based on orders from a man in Pakistan.
The person who was to receive the goods in Bahrain intended to promote and sell the hashish, the couple told authorities.
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