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| The men were getting ready to board their flight at Buenos Aires airport when police detained them |
Police in
Argentina have arrested 10 Venezuelan drug mules who pretended to be members of
the Olympic weightlifting team to avoid arousing suspicion.
The plot
was uncovered when they went through a body scan before a flight.
The scan
showed they had swallowed plastic capsules, which were later revealed to
contain liquid cocaine.
Police had
been alerted to the gang by a Venezuelan woman who told them her nephew, a
weightlifter, had been recruited to smuggle drugs.
The woman
provided police with information enabling them to trace the alleged recruiter
of the gang.
After a
four-month investigation, officers followed the man to Buenos Aires
international airport where, along with nine other Venezuelans, he was about to
get on a flight to Portugal via Brazil.
Police said
the men were dressed in track suits and claimed to be members of Venezuela's
Olympic weightlifting team, presumably because they suspected that a large
group of young men travelling together on an international flight could arose
the suspicion of customs officers.
Officers
put them through a body scan which revealed all 10 had plastic capsules in
their stomachs.
Tests
performed on the capsules after they had been excreted showed they contained
liquid cocaine, said police.
Three
Dominicans have also been arrested in the course of raids linked to the
investigation.
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