Georgian police make 10kg drug bust

A South African woman has been arrested in Georgia after she was caught carrying about 10kg of marijuana as she tried to enter the country from Qatar.

Georgian law enforcement agencies seized the drugs and arrested the woman, named by officials as Nomakhosa Pumla Vinifred N., at Tbilisi International Airport yesterday.

The 29-year-old woman was caught as she was going through customs trying to enter the country. She had arrived on Georgian soil on a Doha-Tbilisi flight. After the drugs were found the woman was arrested for attempting to smuggle a large quantity of drugs into the country.

Upon searching the woman, law enforcement officers found 12 packages of dried marijuana hidden in a secret pocket of the woman's carry-on baggage. According to experts, the dried marijuana weighed 9.700kg.

The operative-investigative activities were jointly carried out by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ division for Fighting against Organised Crime, the division for Fighting against Narcotics Transit and the Customs Department of the Revenue Service.