Man who hid drugs in underwear in smuggling bid, jailed by court

An Asian man arrested at Bahrain International Airport while attempting to smuggle in more than 600 grammes of narcotic pills by hiding in his undergarments, has been sentenced. The man was sentenced yesterday by the First High Criminal Court to five years of imprisonment, to pay a fine of BD3,000 and to be deported after completing his sentence. The details of the case showed that the man’s suspicious behaviour led a Customs Department officer to carry out a frisk on the passenger.

In the X-Ray examination of his luggage, the officer noticed medical pills hidden in cigarette packets and the defendant’s underwear. A total of 634.65 grammes of narcotic pills known as “Ya Ba” was found stashed in different places of the man’s luggage, including his socks and clothes. In the interrogation, the defendant confessed that he had received the narcotics from another passenger on the same flight, which stopped in Kuwait before flying to Bahrain. He claimed that he accepted an amount of BD500 from the alleged other passenger for smuggling the pills into Bahrain.

However, the defendant didn’t provide any further details on the identity of the alleged passenger. Additionally, his urine examination showed that he had abused the same substance that was seized from him. The Public Prosecution accused the defendant of attempting to smuggle narcotics with the intention of selling it in Bahrain, in addition to drugs possession and abuse. The court issued its verdict yesterday and ordered to confiscate the detected substance.