A Romanian, Adrian Calin Varadi, Caught With Almost 5 KG of Cocaine

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Re: A Romanian, Adrian Calin Varadi, Caught With Almost 5 KG of Cocaine

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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/d ... nh-airport
Chito said the suspect allegedly planned to smuggle the drugs to Thailand for sale there.
“I guess there is no market for cocaine in Cambodia,” Chito said.
Whatever the police chief says...
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Confirmation here that this batch of drugs was destined for Thailand.

Foreigners face life for drug smuggling
26 April 2017
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A Romanian and a Nigerian went on trial at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday after allegedly trying to smuggle nearly five kilos of cocaine from Brazil to Thailand via Cambodia last year.
Adrian-Calin Varadi, 40, was arrested as he arrived into Phnom Penh International Airport carrying 14 packages of cocaine in his luggage.
Chukwuemeka Ibe, 35, was caught later that day as he waited to receive the drugs to take them to Thailand.

Presiding judge Im Vannak said the pair have been charged with drug trafficking and are facing life sentences in prison if convicted.
Major Sin Sophal, deputy director of the anti-drug intervention unit at the Interior Ministry, said the suspects were drug mules and not ringleaders.

Mr. Ibe said he had no idea he was supposed to be transporting drugs.
A Nigerian friend living in Bangkok paid him 10,000 baht (about $300) to travel to Cambodia and pick up a package on his behalf, he said. The man was identified only as James...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37772/ ... smuggling/
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Interesting that no drugs were found on the Nigerian man, so presumably he was sentenced to life in prison on the word of the Romanian courier - or that of the USDEA.

Drug traffickers jailed for life
10 May 2017
Two foreign men were jailed for life yesterday after bringing nearly five kilos of cocaine from Brazil to Cambodia.
Adrian-Calin Varadi, 40, from Romania, and Nigerian Chukwuemaka Ibe, 35, were arrested by Interior Ministry anti-drug police in collaboration with customs and immigration officers at Phnom Penh International Airport in August last year.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court presiding judge Im Vannak said the pair denied drug trafficking but offered no real evidence to establish their innocence.

Major Sin Sophal of the anti-drug police said Mr Varadi was arrested at the airport after customs checked his bags and found 14 packages of cocaine hidden inside.

After questioning Mr Varadi, police arrested Mr Ibe at the City Centre Hotel in Phnom Penh the same evening.
Mr Ibe had travelled from Thailand to pick up the drugs from Mr Varadi and take them to Thailand. Police did not find any drugs on him.

Maj Sophal said police had been tipped off about the drug run by the US Drug Enforcement Administration office in Brazil...
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23 March 2018
1 hour 46 minutes ago
The life sentences for Adrian Calin Varadi, Romanian, and Ibe Chukwuemeka, Nigerian, have been upheld.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has ruled that it condemns a Nigerian and a Romanian man to life imprisonment on charges of illegally importing five-kilogram of cocaine from Brazil into Cambodia.
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The verdict was made public in absentia because the prison guards did not send the accused to the court.
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Its nearly always a tip off. They used to put several mules on planes and dob in one. The authorities would be busy with the victim and ignore the others.
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