<img title="Victor Van Niekerk was caught with drugs worth R4 crore" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/apr/05Victor-Van-Niekerk.jpg" alt="Victor Van Niekerk was caught with drugs worth R4 crore" />Victor Van Niekerk was caught with drugs worth Rs 4 crore
The Air Intelligence Unit is having a busy April -- it has filed six cases with the biggest involving a South African smuggling Metha-qualone worth R4 crore.
Drug bust On Tuesday, Victor Van Niekerk (26), leaving for Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET-611, was intercepted. Twelve packets of a white powder, purported to be Methaqualone, weighing 11.9 kg and valued at R4 crore, were found on him.
Niekerk had hidden the drugs in a blue carbon packet beneath round-neck T-shirts in his checked-in bag.
Of gold and saffron The AIU also intercepted two who had concealed gold bars in their rectum -- Samina Shaikh (31), a Goregaon resident who had arrived from Bangkok with three gold bars weighing 229 g valued at R6.87 lakh, and Dinesh Chellani (30), a resident of Ulhasnagar who had arrived from Dubai with one gold bar weighing 186 g valued at R5.58 lakh.
Amit Bhostekar (33), a Bangkok Airways senior security officer, was caught with three bars in all weighing 2.6 kg valued at R78 lakh.
A Thane resident and three others were caught with gold, while three Kasargod residents were found with 26.075 kg saffron valued at R32,59,375.

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The Air Intelligence Unit is having a busy April -- it has filed six cases with the biggest involving a South African smuggling Metha-qualone worth R4 crore

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