A Canadian smuggler who was caught with almost £300,000 worth of cannabis at Aberdeen Airport was rumbled after his flight was re-routed to the travel hub. Pawlo Albanskyi has now been locked up for two years and eight months after he admitted being involved in the supply of the controlled drug at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old, from Mississauga near Toronto, was stopped by Border Force Officers as he arrived on a flight from Canada via Amsterdam on December 11 last year. He had been due to fly to Birmingham but had been re-routed to Aberdeen following flight delays.
When asked what his suitcases contained, he claimed it was clothing belonging to him and his sister who lived more than 500 miles away in Slough. Entry to the cases was forced after Albanskyi claimed he didn’t know the padlock codes with officers discovering just two t-shirts alongside 33 kilos of herbal cannabis.
