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A 19-year-old British woman has been detained in Tbilisi accused of carrying 14kg of cannabis into ex-Soviet republic Georgia.
The woman – identified as B.K. – could face 20 years jail or even life imprisonment, said the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A video shows the handcuffed woman after she was held at Tbilisi Airport.
‘During the inspection, 34 hermetically sealed packages containing marijuana were found in the passenger’s bag, as well as 20 packages of hashish,’ said a local report.
Footage showed the drugs allegedly carried by the woman.
She is accused of bringing ‘a particularly large amount of narcotic drugs to Georgia’.
The Interior Ministry said: ‘B.K., born in 2006, is charged with illegally purchasing and storing a particularly large amount of narcotics, illegally purchasing and storing the narcotic drug marijuana, and illegally importing it into Georgia.
‘The committed crime envisions up to 20 years – or life imprisonment.
A British woman, 19, has been detained in Tbilisi accused of carrying 14kg of cannabis into ex-Soviet republic Georgia
The woman – identified as B.K. – could face 20 years jail or even life imprisonment, said the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs. A video shows the handcuffed woman after she was held at Tbilisi Airport
‘During the inspection, 34 hermetically sealed packages containing marijuana were found in the passenger’s bag, as well as 20 packages of hashish,’ said a local report
‘Law enforcement officers, as a result of the defendant’s luggage inspection at Tbilisi International Airport, seized a particularly large amount of the narcotic drug marijuana, up to 12 kilograms, and 2.068 kg of the narcotic drug hashish in her travel bag.’
Her luggage was identified as suspicious during a scanner check at the airport, said the ministry’s statement.
The ministry did not say where the woman was flying from when she was detained.
The investigation is being conducted by the Central Criminal Police Department in Tbilisi.
It comes just one week after a British man was hauled into court in Bali for allegedly smuggling a kilo of MDMA to the party island where drug crimes can result in the death penalty.
Thomas Parker, a 32-year-old electrician from Cumbria who is accused of trying to push Class A drugs police said they recovered in a mail package, appeared in a white shirt and red waistcoat as he was hauled in front of a judge on May 7.
The woman is accused of bringing ‘a particularly large amount of narcotic drugs to Georgia’
The Interior Ministry said: ‘B.K., born in 2006, is charged with illegally purchasing and storing a particularly large amount of narcotics, illegally purchasing and storing the narcotic drug marijuana, and illegally importing it into Georgia’
Parker, from the small village of Seaton near Workington, was arrested at an AirBnB in the south of the Indonesian island in January as he was allegedly collecting the package, which contained over a kilogram of the party drug along with two mobile phones.
Authorities claimed that officers had noticed him ‘acting suspiciously’ while collecting a package from a motorcycle taxi driver on January 21, before his arrest.
Police approached Parker, who allegedly discarded the package in panic and fled the scene. He was traced back to the 7 Seas Villas in North Kuta, where he was arrested.
Indonesia is known for its harsh punishments for drugs crimes, which can carry penalties of death by firing squad.
General Rudy Ahmad Sudrajat, of the Bali Province National Narcotics Agency, said of Parker’s arrest: ‘After conducting a search and arrest, Thomas and the evidence were taken to the Bali Province National Narcotics Agency office for investigation.’
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