Customs seizes Rs. 60.2 m in drugs sent by airmail

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Follows Rs. 67.5 m mail parcel seizure last week

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit yesterday seized a consignment of illegal drugs sent by airmail to the Colombo Central Mail Exchange, with an estimated street value of more than Rs. 60.2 million. The drugs included Kush, hashish, cocaine and ecstasy, officials said.

The parcels, sent from Thailand, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, were addressed to fictitious addresses in various parts of the country. The unclaimed parcels were opened in the presence of officials from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit and the Central Mail Exchange, and handed over to the Police Narcotics Bureau for further investigations.

Last week, Customs seized narcotics estimated at Rs. 67.5 million from 11 foreign postal parcels sent from eight countries to the Central Mail Exchange. The largest single detection was a parcel from Belgium containing 2,202 grams of MDMA, or ecstasy, pills valued at about Rs. 33 million.