iciHaiti - International Airport : Arrest of a Nigerian with 1.35 kg of cocaine in his intestine

Agents from the Office for the Fight against Drug Trafficking proceeded this week at Toussaint Louverture International Airport to arrest on board Air Caraïbe flight TX 559 bound for Paris, of Ik Egbor (27) holder of a a Nigerian passport, suspected of being a person ("mule") carrying drugs concealed in his body.

He was transported to the Bernard Mevz hospital to be x-rayed. The result revealed the presence of numerous foreign bodies in his intestine. Measures have been taken to recover these foreign bodies.

Thursday, June 9, 2022, Me Eric Dorsainvil, Deputy Judge at the Peace Court of the Croix des Missions, assisted by his clerk Shandarah. F, Aidate noted 102 small packets closed by several layers of polyethylene containing drugs, totaling 1.35 kg of cocaine, recovered from the intestine of the Nigerian

A judicial investigation has been opened at the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) in an attempt to trace the other accomplices in this drug trafficking.

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