22 kg of cocaine seized at Rome airport

    By IANS/AKI,

    Rome : Police at Rome’s Fiumicino airport arrested three people carrying 22 kg of cocaine as they came in a flight from Brazil.

    The drugs are estimated at over five million euros.

    A Cypriot and a Ukrainian had hidden the drugs beneath false bottoms in the luggage they checked into the aircraft’s hold.

    The third suspect, a Brazilian who said she was on a pilgrimage to Italy, had concealed the narcotics in her hand-luggage.