A man with 169 heroin containers detained at Domodedovo Airport

Uzbek citizen was trying to smuggle 169 containers of heroin in his stomach, reprorts Federal Customs Service of Russia.

As noted September 19 y.o. drug courier arrived from the Uzbek city of Termez and later was detained at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

X-rays showed that the detainee was smuggling as many as 700 grams of heroin containers of cylindrical shape in his stomach. 

Domodedovo Customs registered official investigation against the detained Uzbek citizen according to Part 3 of Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code (“Drug trafficking”).