Pubdate: Mon, 01 Mar 1999
Source: ITAR-TASS (Russia)
Copyright: 1999 ITAR-TASS.

COLOMBIAN SEIZED IN MOSCOW WITH 72 COCAINE BAGS IN STOMACH

MOSCOW, - A drug trafficker from Colombia
carrying 72 mini-bags with cocaine in his stomach was caught at the
customs check point of  Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow on Saturday.
The Russian State Customs Committee  on Monday told Tass that the
Colombian citizen had been on a transit flight  Bogota-Lima-Moscow-Dusseldorf
acting a live container for 704,1 grams of deadly  drug.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the drug pusher.
According to  experts of the Russian special services, the black
market cash value of cocaine  gram was up to 150 US dollars in the
beginning of the year.
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