The court sentenced her to 10 years in prison and a fine of 50,000 dirhams

Wooden slats containing cocaine inside a passenger bag at Dubai Airport

A forty-year-old African saleswoman thought that she would succeed in attempting to smuggle a large quantity of cocaine, weighing more than three kilograms. She hid it inside wooden boards in a travel bag through Dubai Airport, and prepared an expendable novel to narrate it if caught, which is that she did not know anything about the content of the bag, and that unknown He met her at Addis Ababa airport, and asked her to help her carry the bag to reduce his weight so that he could travel. She cried, and pretended innocence, but she wasted 10 years of her life, after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Criminal Court, and the ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeal .

The incident began, according to the correct picture, which was established in the conviction of the court, when the convict (A.O.A. Africa) arrived at Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport, coming from Addis Ababa. It has been inspected by customs inspectors, as it contains an abnormal density.

By following the bag and the accused until she reached the baggage inspection device before the exit point, where she thought that she was a step away from escaping her crime, and dreams of getting a reward for her crime flirted with her, but a Dubai Customs inspector stopped her, and asked her if she had something illegal that she wanted to disclose She replied in the negative, which prompted the inspector to empty the bag of its contents, and discovered the presence of a zipper at the bottom of the bag, and by opening it, it was found that there were wooden boards, and by opening it it was found that inside it was a roll with a yellow sticker on it, and by opening it she found a white powder, which has the characteristic appearance of the narcotic substance cocaine.

In her testimony to the Public Prosecution’s investigations, the customs inspector said that the suspect’s path was followed up since the bag was suspected, and when she stopped her to ask if she was in possession of a prohibited thing, she stammered, and denied, and as soon as she began searching the bag, fear appeared on her, and she was trembling in a way that indicated that she was aware. With the content of the bag, then I found the drug.

By asking the accused in the customs officials and collecting evidence at the General Administration for Drug Control and Public Prosecution investigations, she denied her knowledge of the presence of the drug in the bag, and decided that she had met a person of her nationality at Addis Ababa airport, who was with her on the same flight coming to the country, called Latif, and asked her to help him lighten his load by carrying One of his bags, and he told her that it contained food, and that he would pick it up at Dubai airport, and she put some of her clothes in it, but she did not search them when I took them from him.

For its part, the Public Prosecution directed the accused to commit the felony of bringing and obtaining narcotic substances with the intent of promoting, after the report of the General Department of Criminal Evidence established the nature of the seizures.

The court confirmed in its ruling that it was confirmed that drugs had been found in the accused’s bag, and her claim that a person had handed her the bag with its contents in Addis Ababa to lighten his load, and told her that it contained food, and accompanied her on the trip, according to her account, was not proven.

The court relied on the fact that the accused put her clothes in the bag, and this means, according to her version, that she went to Addis Ababa airport without a travel bag, despite the presence of her luggage with her, in addition to the fact that the aforementioned person who met her by chance receive the bag from her at the airport, in addition to that The drugs were hidden at the bottom of the bag under wooden boards, while the bag was devoid of any foodstuffs, and neither mind nor logic could imagine this happening, which is what the court deduced from the accused's knowledge of the presence of drugs, and sentenced her to 10 years imprisonment, a fine of 50 thousand dirhams, and then deportation about the state.

• The accused allegedly carried the bag to help an unknown person at Addis Ababa airport.

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