The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a Moroccan woman and a Tunisian man at the local airport on Wednesday and Friday respectively for attempting to smuggle cocaine into Macau, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam announced at two special press conferences held on Friday and Saturday respectively.
In the two operations, the Judiciary Police seized a total of 4.403 kilogrammes of cocaine, with an estimated street value of 14.53 million patacas, according to Ho.
Moroccan female hides cocaine in dolls: police
Ho said during the press conference on Friday that the female suspect, aged 32, surnamed Wafa, used Macau as a transit point, attempting to smuggle a total of 105 pellets of cocaine weighing 2,303 grammes worth about 7.6 million patacas by hiding the drugs in two dolls.
Ho noted that PJ officers intercepted Wafa upon her arrival in Macau on a flight from Singapore at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, in whose suitcase the officers discovered the drugs in the two dolls that were filled with cottonwool and had been restitched.
Under questioning, according to Ho, Wafa denied the crime, claiming that at the request of her boyfriend, she received an unknown man’s suitcase and brought it to Macau by air. Wafa insisted that she had not been aware of the drugs in her luggage, insisting that she was supposed to wait for her boyfriend’s instructions in Macau.
Tunisian male promised US$5,000 to smuggle cocaine: police
During Saturday’s press conference, Ho said that PJ officers arrested the 42-year-old male suspect surnamed Hajbi upon his arrival in Macau from a flight via Kuala Lumpur at 10:10 p.m. on Friday, adding that the officers discovered cocaine weighing 2.1 kilogrammes worth 6.93 million patacas inside a sealed plastic bag.
Ho said that Hajbi admitted to selling drugs, confessing that he had been promised a commission of US$5,000 (40,250 patacas) to carry the cocaine from Guinea Conakry, a former French colony in West Africa, to Macau via Istanbul and Kuala Lumpur.
Wafa and Hajbi were transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) on Friday and Saturday respectively, facing drug-trafficking charges, according to Ho.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the Moroccan female (left) and Tunisian male drug suspects to a police vehicle after Friday’s and Saturday’s special press conferences, respectively, held at the PJ headquarter in Zape. – Photo combo: MPDG
