SINGAPORE – Five foreign women were each handed a capital charge on July 31 after they were allegedly found with more than 1,300 pellets containing nearly 27kg of cocaine in Singapore.
At least some of the pellets were said to be found inside stuffed toys.
The women were arrested at the Changi Airport Terminal 4 transit area on July 29 following an exchange of intelligence between Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and the Narcotics Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force.
The women are Hong Konger Chung Ka Yiu, 21, and four Kenyans – Faith Awino Ouma, 27; Genetrix Atsieno Juma, 27; Joyce Njeri Mburu, 30 and Margaret Kawira Mungai, 32.
Chung and Mungai are accused of working together to traffic 289 pellets containing nearly 6kg of cocaine.
According to court documents, Mungai had allegedly given the pellets to Chung.
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