Mumbai, March 01: A Zambian woman was arrested with contraband drugs valued around Rs 6.5 crore at the international market by the Air Intelligence Unit of the international airport here, a top customs official said today.
34-year-old Matapo Ajar Twambo, who was to leave for Addis Ababa by an Ethiopian Airlines flight on February 27, was intercepted by the AIU officials and seized cocaine weighing around 5,420 grams, and 95 grams of heroin concealed in the amplifier of multimedia speaker system, Additional Commissioner of Customs B S Nunwal said.
“The off-white colour cocaine is internationally valued at around Rs 5.42-crore and heroin at Rs 95 lakh was smartly concealed in the multimedia speaker system,” Nunwal said. She was carrying two baggages, he added.
Twambo has been booked under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and further investigations in the case is in progress, Nunwal said.
–Agencies