PETALING JAYA: A former Malaysian flight attendant has been jailed five years and six months in jail after pleading guilty to smuggling heroin into Melbourne, Australia in May 2018.
Fariq Aqbal Omar, 34 pleaded guilty at the Victorian County Court to"importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug", according to Australian news portal ABC News.
He was captured on a closed-circuit television walking through Melbourne Airport with his trouser pockets and vest bulging with 10 wrapped blocks of pure heroin. However, Australian Border Force officials had them all return to the baggage area with their luggage, the court heard.
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