A Nigerian drug smuggler was been arrested in Switzerland with 123 condoms stuffed with cocaine weighing 3.7 pounds in his stomach, border guards said.
Michel Bachar, a spokesman for the Swiss border guards, said the 123 condoms represented the equivalent of a 6-yard long string of sausages or just under one gallon in volume.
“It’s exceptional,” he said, underlining that the contents of just one of the condoms could have killed the carrier.
The man was among six people in a French-registered car who were stopped after they ran through a red light and sped past a border post near Geneva.
X-rays revealed that four of them were carrying a total of nearly 6.6 pounds of cocaine in their stomachs, in two-inch condom packages coated with wax or resin.
At least two other similar cases were uncovered on the Swiss side of the border in the past four months.
Nine people were arrested in France in a similar case earlier this month on suspicion of taking part in cocaine trafficking between Spain and France.
Swiss border guards recovered all of the swallowed cocaine capsules after several days.
