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Foreigners jailed for drug capsules in abdomen
An Asian expatriate was tried in Bahrain and convicted of smuggling 22 capsules containing narcotic substances inside his body after he was caught at Bahrain International Airport upon arrival from his home country. The smuggling operation had begun before his flight, when someone offered him money to swallow the capsules, and he was assisted in doing so. He was instructed to swallow 16 capsules first, followed by the remaining ones. It was revealed that he belongs to an international drug trafficking network. He was fined 10,000 Bahraini dinars and sentenced to life imprisonment, with final deportation after serving his sentence. It is also noted that the defendant was carrying 275 Bahraini dinars and admitted that he was offered approximately 136 dinars to smuggle the substances.
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