Customs officials were waiting for foreigners at the end of last week. The man had already come a long way – he set out from Medellín, Colombia, traveled via Bogotá in Colombia to Germany, and from Frankfurt am Main, he flew to Prague with a travel bag. “At Václav Havel Airport, customs officers checked him on the basis of a tip from the National Anti-Drug Central. In his travel bag, hidden among other things, they found four blocks of an unknown compressed substance. A preliminary chemical analysis confirmed that it is cocaine,” said Lucie Šmoldasová, the press spokesperson of the National Anti-Drug Headquarters.
The drugs, including packaging, weighed a whopping 4.647 kilograms. “The drugs were handed over to the Criminal Investigation Institute in Prague for further expertise. Whether they were intended for the Czech market is the subject of an investigation,” the spokeswoman specified. Criminal proceedings were initiated against the man, he ended up in the Pankrác remand prison. “Due to the amount of drugs he had on him and the cooperation with an organized group operating in several states, he is at risk of the highest legal qualification for the crime of illegal production and other handling of narcotic and psychotropic substances and poisons,” the spokeswoman added, adding that a foreigner could end up in prison for 10 to 18 years.
Customs officials at the Prague airport arrested a man who smuggled 4.6 kilograms of cocaine.
Author: National Anti-Drug Headquarters SKPV PČR
