Jordan’s anti-drug department on Wednesday seized a quantity of cocaine that a South American traveler had hidden in his stomach, according to a statement released by General Security.
The statement read: “The Narcotics Department has thwarted an attempt to smuggle 1.5 kilograms of cocaine into the bowels of a foreign traveler of South American nationality arriving in the Kingdom via Queen Alia International Airport,” thirty kilometers south of Amman.
He explained that the Anti-Drug Department workers inside the airport identified the traveler with “indications that he had hidden quantities of drugs in his intestines, and he was immediately taken to Al-Bashir hospital” in Amman, and “when been X-rayed, the images showed the presence of a group of capsules inside his body.”
The statement indicated that the traveler “at that time confessed to his attempt to smuggle a quantity of cocaine into his bowels” and 45 capsules had been removed from his body “by medical methods”, which turned out to contain 1.5 kilograms of cocaine.
Amman confirms that 85 percent of the drugs seized in the kingdom are destined for smuggling out of Jordan.
Drug smuggling through the airport is rare in Jordan, and the source of the smuggled drug is often Syria and its destination is Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.
During 2021, the Jordanian military thwarted 361 Syrian smuggling and infiltration attempts and seized 15.5 million Captagon pills, after the amount seized reached 1.4 million pills in 2020.
