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Pinoy gets 10 years for drug smuggling
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Man admits being paid US$3,000 to transport cocaine
DUBAI
The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced a Filipino to 10 years in
jail, followed by deportation, for drug smuggling.
The 27-year-old man, who had pleaded guilty earlier, was also ordered to pay
a fine of 50,000 dirhams. The court panel, presided by Judge Hamad
Abduljawad, ordered confiscation of the contraband.
According to the court records, the
defendant was nabbed with 99
capsules of cocaine weighing
more than 1.25kg at the Dubai
International Airport on April 18 last
year.
A police corporal told the court in a
hearing in August that he became
suspicious of the Filipino standing
in the transit hall of the Terminal 3
of the airport. “He looked very anxious. I approached him and asked him if he
was hiding any narcotics. On frisking him, 53 capsules of cocaine were found
on him,” the corporal said.
The man first said he was not aware that the capsules contained narcotics.
“He claimed that he only knew that they contained diamonds. He, however,
later admitted to possessing the contraband, claiming that he was transporting
the drugs from a South American country to an Asian country.”
He also admitted to concealing 37 capsules of cocaine in his stomach.
A non-commissioned officer told the court that the man excreted the capsules
in front of him in the toilet of the room where he was detained.
The man confessed to collecting US$3,000 for transporting the contraband.
