Armenian customs officers stopped an attempt to smuggle over 650 grams of hashish

YEREVAN, June 12. /ARKA/. Armenia's State Revenue Committee (SRC) said today that its officers thwarted an attempt to smuggle in over 650 grams of hashish, a type of narcotics made of the cannabis plant.

The hashish was discovered when an Armenian citizen who arrived from Rome to Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan, was subjected to 'personal customs inspection.'

There was reasonable suspicion that the citizen, identified by his initials M.V. had hidden drugs in his body, the SRC said.

He was examined by X-rays, which showed that a medic's services were needed. The suspect was then taken from Zvartnots airport to a medical facility where a computer tomography scan revealed that there were spherical foreign bodies in the citizen's stomach and colon, which had been removed as a result of various medical interventions.

All in all, 110 whole and 16 torn polyethylene spherical packets containing brown masses with a peculiar odor, similar to hashish with a total weight of 652 grams were extracted from the citizen's body.

The smuggling case was referred then to the Investigative Committee of Armenia, where criminal proceedings were initiated. -0-