Foreign national held at Mumbai airport with cocaine worth Rs 11 cr hidden inside his stomach

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested a Sierra Leone national who was trying to smuggle cocaine worth Rs 11 crore by concealing it in his body, an official said.

According to a statement by the DRI, the accused concealed 74 cocain capsules, weighing 1,108 grams, in his body.

Based on specific intelligence, the Sierra Leone national was intercepted at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport by the DRI Mumbai officials on Thursday, March 28.

During questioning, the man told DRI officials that he had ingested cocaine capsules in his attempt to sneak in the drug to India.

He was then admitted to JJ hospital after obtaining a court order. A team of doctors removed 74 cocaine capsules from his abdomen, the official said.

The man was later arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and sent to judicial custody, the statement said.