Woman swallows Rs.5 crore worth narcotics, flies to Chennai from Brazil

Chennai: A 24-year-old foreign woman, swallowed 86 capsules containing cocaine worth Rs.5 crore in Brazil and flew to Chennai to deliver the same was arrested by sleuths from narcotics control bureau as soon she landed at the Chennai airport.

The arrested woman was identified as Molefe Keditlwaetse Lizzie, a South African national.

“She was intercepted at the airport on Saturday. Lizzie was flying from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Chennai via Abu Dhabi. She had 990 gms of cocaine in her possession. She came by tourist visa and she was planning to leave the country after delivering the consignment,” Prem Anand Sinha, zonal director of NCB, told Deccan Chronicle.

According to NCB officials the modus operandi is to swallow the capsules containing cocaine and make sure the same is collected from excreta before 48 hours.

“It is very risky. If the capsules breaks inside the stomach the transporter can get killed because of drug over dose,” noted a NCB official. For successful delivery the woman may receive close to $15,000.

NCB officials noted that South American cartels seem to be expanding their business by delivering drugs to India directly rather than through other countries and agents.

Although the seizure was made in Chennai, the seized cocaine is believed to have been for distribution across metro cities in various states.

This seizure along with four other Cocaine seizures made by NCB, Chennai in the last ten months have dealt a severe blow to the Cocaine syndicate operating in the Southern states, the NCB officer claimed.