HYDERABAD: Customs officials have arrested a drug peddler from Tanzania at Rajiv Gandhi International (RGI) Airport and seized 1,389 grams of heroin worth 11.5 crore. The peddler has ingested capsules containing the contraband and customs sleuths had to get them purged under medical supervision. Incidentally, this was the second case in which an air passenger used the modus operandi to smuggle in the contraband in the last two weeks of April.
Intelligence Unit (AIU) sleuths of the customs department intercepted a 50-year-old Tanzanian national based on passenger profiling and his body language at the RGI Airport on April 26. The peddler arrived from Johannesburg via Abu Dhabi by Etihad Airways Flight (EY-274).
