Leonie Pretorius
01 May 2016
Two customs
officials, an airline employee and a foreign national are set to appear in
court next week over cocaine that passed through OR Tambo International Airport
in Johannesburg.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani
Mulaudzi said that the the four men were arrested at the airport on Thursday.
Earlier
that day,A 29-year-old man in transit to Lagos, Nigeria, had landed from Sao
Paolo, Brazil.
Allegedly a
drug mule, he was apparently allowed to pass through the airport with as much
as 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of R425 000, in his
body.
Two customs
officials allegedly escorted the man to a hotel, where they were joined by an
airline employee “who apparently came to collect the ejected drug bullets from
the suspect’s body”.
The customs
officers were charged with defeating the ends of justice.
The alleged drug mule and airline worker would
face drug dealing charges.
The four
remained in custody ahead of their expected appearance in the Kempton Park
Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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