Italy-bound businessman arrested at Enugu airport with 98 cocaine wraps
A 30-year-old Italy-based businessman, Joseph Cyril, excreted 98 wraps of cocaine after he was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law The post Italy-bound businessman arrested at Enugu airport with 98 cocaine wraps appeared first on Nairametrics .
Italy-bound businessman Joseph Cyril, 30, was apprehended by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) agents at Enugu airport with 98 wraps of cocaine. The arrest occurred on August 2 while Cyril was undergoing outbound passenger clearance on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET930. NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi announced the arrest in a statement disclosing multiple drug trafficking operations across Nigeria between August 2 and August 8.
Besides Cyril's seizure, the agency intercepted cocaine concealed in phone chargers intended for Saudi Arabia, 500 grams of cocaine hidden in a backpack for Italy, and 2.3 kilograms of synthetic cannabis shipped from the United States. In another case, a 67-year-old Nigerian-British woman was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport with 13 kilograms of cocaine hidden in plantain packages.
NDLEA intensified airport surveillance and cargo inspections as part of its anti-drug trafficking campaign and domestic narcotics distribution operations.
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