National police spokesperson, Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said soon after the Namibian woman was arrested, she was taken to a local hospital where a medical X-ray confirmed and detected foreign objects in her stomach.
LOOK: 60 bullets of cocaine and counting extracted from Namibian woman’s stomach after she landed at OR Tambo from Brazil
National police spokesperson, Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said SAPS, the SA Revenue Service customs and immigration officials were following up on intelligence from SAPS of a drug mule that would land from Sao Paulo at around 7am. On Sunday evening, Mathe said the process to release the suspected drugs from her body was under way.
“The value of the drugs cannot be determined at this stage as the process to release all suspected drugs from the suspects body may take some time,” she said. “Our men and women in blue are hard at work intercepting hardened criminals. South Africa is not a playground for criminals and transnational organised crime. We are squeezing the space for criminals and leaving nothing to chance,” said Masemola.IOL reported that a South African woman who is an alleged drug mule who recently departed from South Africa
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