Officers attached to Narcotic Control unit at Bandaranayake International Airport arrested a passenger at the green channel arrived from Sierra Leon yesterday morning with the suspicion of traffiking Narcotic substances.
Officers put the suspect through the body scanner at the Customs area and identified that the passenger has concealed drugs in person.
The 32 year old suspect is a Sierra Leon National and arrived to Sri Lanka via Istanbul by the flight TK 730 operated by Turkish Airline in the morning yesterday.
The suspect was admitted to Negombo Hospital and 17 pellets suspected to containing narcotics have been retrieved so far.
The suspect has confessed that more pellets are in his stomach.
The retrieved pellets and the suspect were handed over to Police Narcotics Bureau for further investigation .
The value of the arrested cocaine pellets is having a street value of Rs. 13million. Sri lanka Customs Narcotic Control Unit has requested the assistantance of the Police Narcotic Bureau and further investigation underway.