According to the National Authority for Combating Drugs, two Nigerian
men were arrested at Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday, May 9
for smuggling 1.27 kilograms of cocaine inside their bodies. The men
identified as Okafor Ifeanyi Anthony and Adibe Paschal flew from Nigeria
to Vietnam, via Qatar, and then to Cambodia, using Qatar Airways flight
Q970.
"When the [authorities] detained them at the airport, he found some
substances which they carried in their hands," said In Song, an official
at the Anti-Drug department at the Ministry of Interior. "They carried
this substance to deceive us."
"Police confiscated several bags of the mysterious brown powdered
substance but it did not test positive for drugs.The drugs that they hid
were in their stomach," said Song.
Police extracted the drugs by ordering the Nigerians to eat laxatives
and excrete them on Tuesday and Wednesday. Song said that the Nigerians
were likely bound for Pattaya in Thailand.
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