Partial reopening of borders appears to be a boon for drug traffickers. In a single day, yesterday, Monday July 26, two drug packages sent by plane were intercepted by customs and the anti-drug brigade.
After the discovery of Rs 5.6 million of hashish in the double bottom of a suitcase transported by an Air Mauritius flight from Paris, elements of the airport’s ADSU also got their hands on another packet of drugs yesterday.
A routine check carried out in the early evening of Monday, July 25 after the landing of the MK852 cargo plane from Johannesburg revealed a package of approximately 1.3 kilograms of heroin from a market value of Rs 19,500,000.
It was around 6:20 p.m. that this cargo plane landed at Plaisance Airport. During a search of the device, the men of the anti-drug squad found this package hidden inside a “baby bassinet”.
The parcel wrapped in duct tape was in a piece of black cloth. After its seizure, the package was sent to Réduit’s Forensic Science Laboratory for fingerprinting and DNA testing. ADSU began questioning eight crew members who were working on the flight