Attendant’s Accomplice: Cocaine Was Hidden In Arik Flight Meals

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday said it had apprehended, for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of 20kg cocaine to London on Monday.

 

Arik Air

According to the NDLEA, Oliver had confessed to the crime and had revealed that he charged N400, 000 for each of the three bags containing the substance.

Oliver, Arik Air’s employee in the catering department, was said to have assisted Chika Egwu Udensi to get the cocaine on-board the London-bound Flight W3101 on which Udensi arrived in the UK on Monday night.

Udensi, a senior flight attendant with the airline was arrested with the substance by the UK Border Force at the Heathrow Airport, London, shortly after the Airbus A330 landed.

The NDLEA, in a statement, said 35 years old Oliver, who is a catering loader at Arik, was found to have subverted airport security by concealing cocaine in catering supplies.

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