Read the full judgment text of HCCC 55/2016 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 May 2018.
1. The defendant is a 25 year-old Brazilian female. On 17 July 2015, she arrived at Hong Kong International Airport on an inbound flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She was intercepted in the transit area at the airport while she was waiting to board a ferry to Macau. Her suitcase was inspected by Customs Officers who found concealed inside four slabs of cocaine, consisting of 2,978 grammes of a powder containing 1,926 grammes of cocaine. This was a large quantity of dru
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