The 32-year-old South African woman named
Mosiea Moosa who initially lied that she was 7
months pregnant, was actually carrying packages
of the drugs in her stomach and her urogenital
tract. She was arrested on August 30 when she
landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport,
Hyderabad, India from Dubai on an Emirates
flight,The Times of India reports.
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sleuths became
suspicious after looking at her passport and
travel pattern over the last one week. On
subjecting her to medical examination, they
discovered that she had swallowed the banned
drugs which were packed in small polymer
packets.
She was rushed to Osmania Hospital by the NCB
sleuths to get the packets of drugs out of her
body. The NCB sleuths intercepted Mosiea at the
RGI Airport after she arrived from Dubai by
Emirates flight EK-526 on Sunday morning.
"When we intercepted her, Mosiea said she
was walking with difficulty as she was
seven-month pregnant. When we shifted her
to a corporate hospital at he airport for
preliminary examination, she admitted that
she was carrying narcotics in her stomach,"
a NCB officer said.
By giving laxatives, the hospital staff managed to
extract 16 pouches of narcotics substance. The
NCB officials confirmed that no surgery was
performed on the woman and she was under
medical supervision.
"We have not yet conducted checks on the
narcotics recovered from the culprit.
However, by looking at her travel pattern
and the narcotics market, we suspect that
the substance could be cocaine from
Brazil," a NCB official said.
According to the NCB, Mosiea landed in Dubai
from Johannesburg on August 23. The next day,
she took a flight to Sao Paulo City (Guarulhos
International Airport) in Brazil. On August 28, she
returned to Dubai from Sao Paulo. On Sunday,
she reached Hyderabad from Dubai.
"As a major portion of cocaine consumed
the world over is manufactured in Brazil, we
believe that she was carrying the
contraband. Her return journey to
Johannesburg has been booked from
Hyderabad via Dubai on September 10," the
NCB source said.
The NCB sleuths believe that Mosiea brought the
banned substance from Sao Paulo, and after a
break in Dubai for two days, she landed up in
Hyderabad.
"She is returning to Johannesburg only after
a gap of 10 days. So, the receiver could be
somewhere close to Hyderabad, but the
final receiver of the product could be
anywhere," the NCB official supervising the
operation said.
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