Meth in the Middle
Officials at the Ngurah Rai and Soekarno-Hatta airports arrested over a dozen Iranian citizens who were smuggling drugs by ingesting them. They were exploiting the weakness of scanning technology.
December 22, 2009
AFTER nightfall, a Qatar Airways QR-624 flight landed at Ngurah Rai Airport, Denpasar, on Wednesday two weeks ago. A Persian-looking man disembarked from the plane and headed for the arrivals terminal. It turned out that this man who had just flown a route from Turkey via Doha, stopping for transit in Kuala Lumpur before heading to Bali, could not speak English. He could only speak Persian.
A customs official who was trying to help him fill out
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