WHAT hair has done for an alleged cocaine smuggler in Namibia, panties and long underwear have now also done for a suspected heroin trafficker in China – which is, to land her in jail and facing a charge of drug trafficking.
Some six weeks after an Angolan student, Claudio dos Santos, was arrested in Namibia after he allegedly collected luggage that included a consignment of cocaine-soaked human hair from the Hosea Kutako International Airport, a Chinese woman is in similar, but even more serious, trouble with the law in China. She faces allegations that she had been caught transporting panties and long johns winter underwear soaked in heroin.The woman, Wang Zhiqin (42), from Wuhan, capital of China’s central province of Hubei, was charged with transporting 1,44 kg of heroin soaked into 15 items of underwear, the China Daily newspaper reports.”Drug tests apparently detected heroin on them and Wang was arrested after a tip-off,” the China Daily said.Wang pleaded innocent during her trial at a Shanghai court on Thursday, saying the tainted underwear had been planted in her luggage, a pink trunk, after two men in Kunming, capital of the southwestern Yunnan province, offered her a job and a plane ticket to Shanghai.Wang’s lawyer queried the investigating police’s methods, who derived the quantity of heroin by weighing the drug-soaked underwear, the paper said.”There is no evidence of the exact purity and quantity of the heroin, and there is no evidence proving Wang was aware of what she was carrying,” the paper quoted the lawyer as saying.If convicted, Wang could face the death penalty, the paper said.The trial continues.Nampa-Reuters, Own ReporterShe faces allegations that she had been caught transporting panties and long johns winter underwear soaked in heroin.The woman, Wang Zhiqin (42), from Wuhan, capital of China’s central province of Hubei, was charged with transporting 1,44 kg of heroin soaked into 15 items of underwear, the China Daily newspaper reports.”Drug tests apparently detected heroin on them and Wang was arrested after a tip-off,” the China Daily said.Wang pleaded innocent during her trial at a Shanghai court on Thursday, saying the tainted underwear had been planted in her luggage, a pink trunk, after two men in Kunming, capital of the southwestern Yunnan province, offered her a job and a plane ticket to Shanghai.Wang’s lawyer queried the investigating police’s methods, who derived the quantity of heroin by weighing the drug-soaked underwear, the paper said. “There is no evidence of the exact purity and quantity of the heroin, and there is no evidence proving Wang was aware of what she was carrying,” the paper quoted the lawyer as saying.If convicted, Wang could face the death penalty, the paper said.The trial continues.Nampa-Reuters, Own Reporter
