Three wrappers, for a total of 195 grams of shaboo, hidden among clothes and hand luggage, were discovered by the financiers of the first metropolitan operational unit of Cagliari on a Filipino who had just arrived at Elmas airport on a flight from Barcelona . The soldiers were supported by dog units and officials from the Customs and Monopolies Agency.
According to investigators, the quantity of drugs seized would have allowed it to be divided into over 950 doses, for illicit proceeds of around 100 thousand euros.
«Shaboo gives a type of euphoria much more powerful than cocaine. It is produced and consumed mostly in south-east Asia, in countries such as Thailand and the Philippines", explain the Customs Agency, "it comes in granules and is taken by inhalation, smoked or injected. It is odorless and, for this reason, its transport often takes place via planes, since only the best trained drug-detection dogs can smell it."
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)