A traveler who left Kenya via the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has been arrested with cocaine and heroin worth millions of money.
The passenger was arrested by officers from India’s Directorate of Revenue Collection (DRI) at an Indian airport
He had arrived from Nairobi in Kenya through Sharjah in an Air Arabia Flight. It was not immediately clear, however, if he had boarded at JKIA undetected with the drugs or whether he had picked them at Sharjah, enroute to India.
Apparently, he was arrested with 4.8 kilograms of cocaine and heroin at the international airport in Karipur in Karala.
The Calicut Regional Unit, under the Cochin Zonal Unit of the DRI, reported that it seized 3.5 kilograms of cocaine and 1.3 kilograms of heroin from Rajeev Kumar, a resident of Musafar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.
The two drugs have been previously reported to cost as much as $160 to $200 in street value, placing the 4,800 grams the man was arrested with at over Ksh. 100 million.
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The passenger had allegedly concealed the contraband inside the items like shoes, hand purses, hand bags, picture boards and file folders in his checked-in baggage.