Drug smuggler caught after reporting luggage missing
Friday, 17 Apr, 2014
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A drug smuggler is to be jailed for six years after reporting his luggage containing £200,000 worth of opium had gone missing.
Amir Rahnama, 43, had hidden the drugs in tubs of hair cream inside his suitcase when he flew from Iran to Manchester.
But when his luggage was accidentally left behind during a stop in Dubai, he filled in forms reporting it missing.
Border police and sniffer dogs detected the opium when the luggage arrived into Manchester’s Terminal One, reports the Daily Mail.
Officers arrested Rahnama when he turned up to claim his suitcase, which also bore his name, and used his passport to prove it was his.
He was sentenced to six years in jail at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court.
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