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Passenger tried to smuggle a drugged orangutan in suitcase
A Russian tourist has been arrested by Indonesian police at the Denpasar airport in Bali after customs officials found a drugged baby orangutan in his suitcase along with several reptiles. Andrei Zhestkov, 27, was stopped at a security checkpoint
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Leopard cub discovered in passenger's luggage at Indian airport
Indian officials on Saturday seized a one-month-old leopard cub from a passenger's baggage at Chennai International Airport in the state of Tamil Nadu. The passenger has been handed over to the Forest Department for further investigation.
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Passenger caught trying to smuggle 600,000 live eels onto plane
A passenger has reportedly been caught trying to smuggle 600,000 live eels onto a plane from Heathrow Airport. Border Force officials found the eels hidden under a load of chilled fish before a flight bound for Hong Kong took off on 15
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Smugglers hide half a tonne of cocaine in frozen strawberries
Authorities in Colombia have seized half a tonne of cocaine smuggled in frozen strawberries. Blocks of cocaine were hidden with frozen strawberry pulp bound for Europe, reports Reuters. See also: Woman caught smuggling £47k of cocaine in
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Gatwick Airport baggage handler jailed for smuggling drugs
A baggage handler at Gatwick Airport has been jailed with three others for smuggling drugs worth a total of £700,000 into the country.David Fox, of Stanley Avenue, Brighton, East Sussex, would use his work privileges to access the transfer shed of
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Virgin crew members arrested for 'smuggling gold on flight to Delhi'
Two Virgin Atlantic crew members were arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle gold jewellery on a flight from London to Delhi. The man and woman reportedly wore 4.2kg of gold worth £104,000 while working on a flight. First Post reports that
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UK's biggest-ever cocaine haul: £500 million worth seized from boat
Cocaine believed to be worth more than £500 million has been recovered from a ship intercepted at sea in what is believed to be the UK's biggest class-A drug seizure. More than three tonnes of the drug were recovered from the MV Hamal in
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