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Sharjah - The accused confessed to smuggling the drugs in his stomach that he brought from Pakistan for his "personal use".
Published: Wed 24 Aug 2016, 4:42 PM
Updated: Wed 24 Aug 2016, 6:52 PM
An Pakistani man was charged with smuggling drugs in his stomach by the Sharjah Sharia court recently.
A Sharjah Police official told presiding judge Dr Yaqoub Al Hamadi that their Anti-Narcotics Department was tipped off about the suspect with possession of drugs. The police tracked him to a hotel in the emirate and raided his room, but nothing was found during the search.
However, later in police custody, the suspect confessed that he smuggled 37 capsules containing drugs, and handed it over to someone else according to orders from a drug trafficker in his home country. He also admitted to still having some capsules in his body, and was taken to hospital to eject them.
During the court hearing, the accused confessed to smuggling the drugs in his stomach that he brought from Pakistan for his "personal use", as he claimed.
The case has been adjourned to September 21.
Five held for drug trafficking
In another case, the Sharjah Court also charged five Asians with drug trafficking and use. They had been caught with possession of hashish and Tramadol, and charged for both possessing and transporting the drugs to varying degrees.
All the suspects denied the charge of trafficking, and only admitted to possession of Tramadol.
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