DUBAI // An airport transit passenger was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday after more than a kilogram of cocaine was found stashed in his shorts.
Guinean Q F, 34, told Dubai Criminal Court that he did not know it was drugs after he was apprehended at Dubai airport on May 16 following a flight from Brazil.
Policeman M A, 35, said: “I asked for his passport then suspected him due to his behaviour, so I took him to the search room and there I found that he had small, secret pockets in his shorts, inside which he had hidden a number of plastic bags each containing cocaine.”
The officer said that when he asked about the drugs the Guinean confessed but said a friend of his asked him to carry the packages to Ivory Coast in return for money.
The defendant and the 16 plastic bags found in his shorts were referred to the police anti-narcotics department, where it was found he had 1.8kg of cocaine in his possession.
Q F was also fined Dh50,000 and will be deported after completing his jail term.
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