Foreign national given life imprisonment for bringing in drugs

The Criminal Court has sentenced a foreign national who brought drugs into the Maldives to life in prison.

The convict is Delwar Hossain from Bangladesh.

The Criminal Court ruling states that according to statements given in court by witnesses, two packages were found in the suitcase of the convict when he arrived in Male’ on a flight from Sri Lanka at 9:05 pm on 26 June 2011.

Investigation reports of the packages revealed that they contained 1457.7000 gram cannabis.

He was sentenced under the former act on drugs, as the present act had not come into effect when he committed the crime.