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Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld the verdict issued by the Court of First Instance, imprisoned an African convict for 10 years and fined him Dhs50,000 for bringing 6,250 kilogrammes of cocaine in his bag.

Last October, a customs officer suspected the contents of a traveller’s bag, so he searched it, and he found eight suspicious plastic rolls.

The seizures were transferred to the criminal laboratory, while the traveller was detained by the police.

The substance contained in the rolls were found to be cocaine weighing 6.25 kg, based on the criminal laboratory report.

On interrogating the accused, he denied his knowledge about the seized substances and that he had no idea about their presence in his baggage.

Moreover, he said that he had bought the bag with its contents from a food store in his home country on the day of travelling.