ANOTHER Thai Brit smuggler suspect has been arrested with a hashish haul certain for the UK, following related circumstances like Bella Culley and Charlotte Could Lee.
The 31-year-old suspect was stopped with the stash and cuffed throughout a transit cease on his technique to Newcastle by way of Frankfurt from Bangkok.
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The arrest came about at Vienna Worldwide Airport, with the Brit stated to be locked up in preventive custody on the Korneuburg jail.
Customs officers discovered 11.3kg of hashish packed into 13 vacuum-sealed parcels hid amongst garments allegedly within the Brit’s suitcase.
The bags had been checked in at Bangkok and was labelled for onward journey to Frankfurt and Newcastle.
Cops stated the road worth of the hashish was roughly £95,000.
In accordance with police, the person, who was not named, refused to admit and made no assertion in regards to the contents of the suitcase.
Officers stated the investigation is being led by the general public prosecutor’s workplace in Korneuburg.
It comes merely a day after a British couple claiming to be vacationers from Thailand had been busted with greater than 33kg of hashish of their suitcases at a Spanish airport.
The pair had been picked out by suspicious cops at Valencia Airport after displaying a “nervous and evasive angle” and are actually behind bars on drug trafficking fees.
The person and girl, aged 33 and 34, had been stopped earlier than reaching customs, with officers later discovering vacuum-packed marijuana and no garments or private belongings of their baggage.
This marks the fourth case in weeks involving British nationals and alleged drug smuggling linked to Thailand.
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Bella Could Culley, 18, sparked an enormous worldwide search operation in early Could after she was reported lacking whereas she was believed to be holidaying in Thailand.
However it was later revealed that the teenager, from Billingham, County Durham, had been arrested 4,000 miles away on drug offences in Georgia, allegedly carrying 14kg of hashish into the ex-Soviet nation.
The teenager – who posted on-line about dwelling a “Bonnie and Clyde” way of life – is now in Georgia‘s grim No5 Ladies’s Penitentiary close to Rustavi, going through 15 years to life in jail.
Her new lawyer Malkhaz Salakaia, a juvenile legislation specialist, stated Bella did not even know the place she was when arrested.
Bella is claimed to have informed her lawyer she is pregnant and cooperated with police for the primary time final week, as her anguished dad Niel visited her for 45 minutes and delivered meals and garments.
And just lately 21-year-old Charlotte Lee Could, from Coulsdon, south London, was arrested within the Sri Lankan capital Colombo after police found 46 kg of ‘Kush’ – an artificial pressure of hashish – in her suitcase.
The previous flight attendant, going through as much as 25 years in jail if convicted, is claiming she had ‘no concept’ in regards to the medicine price as much as £1.2 million.
She insists they should have been planted in her baggage with out her data.
Charlotte, a part-time beautician and ex-TUI stewardess, had flown into Sri Lanka from Thailand and was snapped in a white outfit and sparkly sandals simply after her arrest.
Her two suitcases had been reportedly full of tightly vacuum sealed packages of the lethal artificial drug, 25 instances stronger than fentanyl.
She claims she left her packed baggage unattended in a single day in her Bangkok resort whereas out partying and had no concept what was inside.
“I had by no means seen them earlier than,” she stated.
A thriller British man she met in Thailand was reportedly ready for her at Colombo airport, and sources worry she could have been below his affect.
Charlotte is now holed up within the overcrowded Welikada Jail, the place she’s been compelled to sleep on a concrete flooring, clear herself with a bucket of water and survive on rice and curry.
“She is a complete mess,” a supply informed The Solar.
“She hates the meals… The jail just isn’t match for a rat to reside in.”
She broke down in courtroom after being informed she might not be sentenced for an additional 12 months and is now banned from contacting family members.
In the meantime an older British man has been arrested by police in Chile after allegedly being caught attempting to smuggle 5 kilos of methamphetamine into the nation.
The 79-year-old was held after leaving a flight from the Mexican resort of Cancun at Santiago Airport.
He was booked on a flight to Sydney in Australia the next day after spending an evening at a resort within the Chilean capital.
The unnamed pensioner was remanded in custody following a courtroom look after a decide permitted a prosecution request to ship him to jail pending possible fees and trial.
Cops say the medicine he was apprehended with would have been price round £200,000 on the streets of the south American nation.
He was intercepted after his baggage was put via an airport scanner.
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