A Kenyan woman was caught at an Indian airport carrying 2.5 kg of cocaine worth around Ksh.380 million.

To mislead the authorities, the Kenyan traveller landed via Addis Abeba with the medicines cleverly packed in three whisky bottles in dissolved form.

PHOTO | COURTESY drugs

On the basis of profiling, AirCustoms@IGIA has seized 2 whiskey bottles having dissolved Cocaine from a Kenyan pax arrived fm Addis Ababa. Approx value around 13 Cr, exact value will be ascertained after extraction under Court supervision. The pax has been arrested under NDPS Act pic.twitter.com/95o9M4kgK1


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The Black Label markings on the bottles indicate the cocaine in liquid, brownish form before the New Delhi Airport Customs authorities condensed it. According to Delhi Customs on Twitter, the woman was arrested under India's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

Five days earlier, the same Delhi Customs tweeted that a Kenyan woman had been apprehended similarly transporting a similar substance - disguised in two Black Label bottles.

On the basis of specific input, AirCustoms@IGIA has seized 2537 gms Cocaine concealed in 3 whiskey bottles valued at 38.055 Cr from a Kenyan woman pax who arrived via Addis Ababa. Pax has been arrested under NDPS Act. pic.twitter.com/q4xw48F9KR

The woman landed in India via Addis Ababa as well. Her cocaine was estimated to be worth Ksh.130 million.