Kilo of cannabis sat at airport for three weeks

MORE than a kilo of cannabis sat unclaimed in a suitcase at Larnaca airport for almost three weeks, Larnaca District court heard yesterday.

The bag arrived on a flight from Athens on April 8 and was left on the baggage reclaim conveyor, Drug squad officer Christakis Papadopoulos said.

Customs officers examined the case and found it contained 1,180 grammes of cannabis. Drug squad officers examined the passenger list for the flight from Athens and identified three “possible suspects,” Papadopoulos told the court.

On Tuesday, one of the suspects – 37-year-old Dutch national Amiri Taimoor – was tracked down in Limassol and taken in for questioning. Papadopoulos told the court that Taimoor, who is of Iranian origin, had admitted to police the suitcase was his and that he had brought the illegal narcotics into the country to sell on to others. He apparently told police the drugs had come from Bangkok via Athens.

The court remanded Taimoor in police custody for eight days on suspicion of illegally possession and import of drugs with the intention to sell.

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