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Diasporia News of Thursday, 3 January 2008

Source: Daily Telegraph

Cocaine smuggled in bra

IT was her slight figure and large bust that alerted customs officers something was wrong.
And when the slim but busty woman was stopped at the airport as she tried to enter Britan, officers discovered a new item of underwear - the Plunderbra, UK papers report. (PICTURE) The would-be smuggler had up to $120,000 (£50,000) worth of cocaine in each breast - concealed in plastic pouches.

The Plunderbra is discovered only if the trafficker is strip-searched or asked to go through a scanner.

Most of the traffickers attempting to get into Britain hail from West Africa, particularly Ghana. To be fair, says a British customs spokesperson, the Ghanian government has cracked down on smugglers after recognizing the scope of the problem and deciding the country "didn't want to end up with the reputation of Jamaica." We always assumed they were more into peaceful pot-smoking there.