DUBAI // A worker returning to Dubai from holiday had 3.6 kilograms of marijuana in his luggage, a court has been told.
The Bangladeshi, 35, was stopped at Dubai International Airport on November 11 last year after his flight from Pakistan.
“When the scan showed suspicious thickness to his bag, we opened it,” a Customs inspector said. “He became tense and we found marijuana wrapped in plastic like it was candy.”
He said the worker told him he knew nothing about the drugs, but that he had been given gifts by people to be delivered to family in Dubai.
“There were 54 wraps in the bottom of his bag, which all contained marijuana,” said the inspector.
In Dubai Criminal Court, the worker denied a charge of possessing drugs.
“A man back home brought it to me in wraps and I didn’t see what was inside it,” he said.
A verdict is due on February 13.
salamir@thenational.ae
