Third Venezuelan busted at airport

Immigration police at Phnom Penh International Airport arrested a Venezuelan national – the third arrested since September – for allegedly trafficking nearly two kilograms of cocaine from Brazil to Cambodia, a police official said yesterday. The arrest was made after the 28-year-old suspect, Mejia Neilin Coromoto, landed at the airport at 6pm on Monday. Police were suspicious and found cocaine hidden in buttons after a search of her luggage.  
 

General Mak Chito, the deputy National Police commissioner in charge of cracking down on drugs, said the suspect was being questioned by police, who were trying to find out if she was part of a drug trafficking network. “She is under questioning by our police,” he said. “And we are searching for her connections.”
 

Police found 1,791.28 grams of cocaine inside 109 buttons. Ms. Coromoto flew from Brazil’s Sao Paulo and transited in Ethiopia and Bangkok before arriving in Phnom Penh as her final destination. In October, Venezuelan national Nabelis Del Carmen Garcia Guillen, 23, was arrested at Siem Reap International Airport after being found with 1.3 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the lining of her suitcase. Her flight had also originated from Brazil.

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