A Nigerian smuggler who brought $500,000 of cocaine to Scotland was jailed for six years some weeks back thanks to a language expert. A trial judge heard a six-kilo consignment was hidden in wooden slats in packing cases flown to Edinburgh Airport from South America.
Nigerian-born Edmond Okoli, 43, turned up to collect the crates of cheap crockeryfrom Peru. He was heard singing a song in his native dialect as he drove from the airport, with the words ‘He who’s got the drug is going...'Okoli denied smuggling cocaine in November 2005 along with others. He told an earlier trial he was offered $500 to pick Peruvian artifact.
But a jury rejected his story and found him guilty.
The High court in Edinburgh heard how the police and customs officers searched the
pottery on their arrival but drew a blank until they turned their attention to the packaging. Some of the slats making up the crates revealed a suspicious shadow when X-rayed.
A hole was bored into one piece of wood, followed by a probe, which flicked out traces of powder. Searchers noticed three lengths of wood were a different colour and all had been hollowed out to take packages of cocaine.
One of Nigeria's most prominent cocaine dealers has been caught, arrested, and convicted after years of smuggling. He was suspected after he picked up Peruvian pottery from an airport in Scotland while singing a song about drugs. The pottery was searched extensively, but the police could find no drugs. Okoli actually hid the cocaine in the wood the composed the crates that the Peruvian pottery was shipped in. Though this plan does sound pretty masterful, Okoli was caught in the end and will suffer as a result. The police are currently working on determining who else was involved in the cocaine smuggle.
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