Mary Yetunde Barek was arrested after around 13kg of cocaine, with a street value of more than £1 million, was discovered in her luggage
Mary Yetunde Barek, 67, was arrested at Murtala Muhammed airport in Lagos as she tried to board a Virgin Atlantic flight to Heathrow on June 28.
She had around 13kg of cocaine in her luggage, with a street value of more than £1 million, according to Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
Ms Barek admitted “full ownership of the recovered cocaine”, after she was apprehended, the NDLEA said.
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