More women arrested as drug mules
Posted: 06 April 2010 2023 hrs
SINGAPORE: 15 women from Singapore were arrested last year
for drug offences linked to West African syndicates. Three women
were arrested for such offences in 2008.
MediaCorp spoke to one drug mule who managed to save herself in the
nick of time.
Joanne, not her real name, got to know a man by the name of Hassan
on tagged.com.
Joanne who is in her mid 30's said a few months into their online
relationship, Hassan asked her to bring some documents for him into
China.
She met someone in Kuala Lumpur to collect the documents.
Joanne took the envelope to China but passed it to someone else as
Hassan didn't turn up.
Hassan asked her to carry some documents to China again.
She was alerted to her unusually heavy leather suitcase by a taxi
driver who was ferrying her to the KL airport.
The taxi driver told her there was something suspicious about the
suitcase.
She discovered a small package wrapped with black tape.
At that point, Joanne was overcome with fear as she suspected it
could be drugs.
She left the suitcase in a hotel and made her way back to Singapore
where she informed the police.
MediaCorp understands the Singapore and Malaysia police launched a
joint operation to seize the drugs in the suitcase.
She said: "I am lucky that I'm still alive. I hate him and I am
angry with his lies and I don't trust people so easily
anymore."
The Central Narcotics Bureau reminds Singaporeans to be alert and
to think twice about suspicious offers of free travel. -
CNA/vm
