DCI Detectives Confiscate Khat meant for illegal Exportation

 

Although Miraa is legal in Kenya, illegal transportation of the drug can land an individual to serving a jail term.

Miraa consignment(Dried Khat) weighing about 1700Kgs which was concealed and declared as personal effects&ready for export to the United States, France & Singapore was today afternoon confiscated by Detectives.Investigations already commenced to nab suspects.

In a recent incident reported by the nation, A man from Latvia who was caught trafficking miraa from Nairobi to the UK and was jailed for ten months by a judge at Warwick Crown Court.

Nauris Ennitis, 27, pleaded guilty to the illegal importation of 35 kilograms of miraa with a value of Sh 2,800, 000 (£20,000) into the UK where the plant is a banned class C drug.

Prosecutor Madhu Rai told the court that in September 2017, Ennitis was stopped by a UK Border Agency officer who had spotted him pushing two large suitcases which he later said he had packed himself.

 

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