AUTHORITIES seized 2.84 kilos of shabu worth P19.35 million at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 in Pasay last Wednesday afternoon.
The illegal drugs were found during an interdiction operation conducted by personnel of NAIA-Interagency Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA-IADITG) at the Customs Office at NAIA Terminal 1 in Pasay City at around 2 p.m., the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said.
PDEA is among the several agencies that comprise the task group, the others being NAIA, PNP, and the Bureau of Customs.
PDEA spokesman Derrick Carreon said the drugs, placed in a baggage, arrived in the country last December 26 from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia on board Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 644F.
Carreon said the baggage is owned by a female passenger who was denied entry to the Philippines a couple of days earlier. She was not identified.
“Said baggage belonged to a passenger who was excluded and denied entry in the Philippines upon her arrival on Dec 24, 2022. (The) baggage arrived in the Philippines on Dec. 26, 2022,” said Carreon.
