Another Kenyan woman is custody after getting arrested at an airport in India with liquid cocaine worth millions of money. The Kenyan woman was arrested upon her arrival at Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. She had arrived aboard a flight from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
The woman was carrying 1.57 litres of liquid cocaine that was concealed in lotion bottles. The cocaine was estimated to be worth at least Sh238 million. The cocaine was found in her luggage by the Mumbai unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) following an intelligence tip-off.
“The modus operandi involved concealing liquid cocaine in moisturizing lotion bottles, as the viscous appearance of the substance closely resembled that of actual lotion,” a DRI source quoted by the media.
This is the latest arrested in a series of alarming incidents of drug smuggling involving Kenyan women. Earlier this month, 25-year-old Caroline Wanjiku Mwangi was arrested with cocaine packages at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as she attempted to board a flight that was scheduled to depart for Goa, India.
She was singled out for an inspection, upon which detectives discovered two smaller handbags that were tucked inside her luggage. The two smaller handbags had packages of cocaine concealed inside them. The cocaine weighed a total of 1.3 kilograms.
The drugs were concealed in a yellow cello tape. “Upon opening the handbags, detectives found a white powdery substance neatly packed and wrapped in yellow cellotape, definitely not your average souvenir,” the DCI stated.
A month earlier in April, another Kenyan woman, Emily Kanini Rhoda, was arrested in India smuggling cocaine worth Sh270 million.
Kanini who is 43 years old, was arrested at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after her luggage was inspected and found with the drugs. She had from Nairobi, Kenya to India, through Doha, Qatar on April 1. She was singled out for inspection after officers noticed that she was overly nervous.
Kenyan lady who ingested, smuggled Sh. 215 million cocaine arrested abroad
After her interrogation by the Indian customs officials, Kanini had claimed that she received the drugs from a lady in Nairobi who had paid for her flight and accommodation in Mumbai.
“She admitted that she was aware of the contents of the bag and she had been promised Sh100,000 if she successfully smuggled the drugs to India,” the customs report stated.
“She was to be given Sh100,000 in Delhi for the successful delivery of the drugs to some accomplice. Since she was in need of the money, she accepted the offer of Millicent to earn some quick, easy money.”
