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BUDAPEST, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Budapest police on Monday nabbed over 3,000 doses of cocaine along with a smuggler and a distributor.
The police department website reported that a Hungarian national identified only as 40 year-old Tamas Sz. and an unnamed Nigerian man, 38, with a residence permit for Hungary, had been apprehended on Sunday with over 3,000 doses of cocaine in capsules.
Tamas Sz. is said to have apparently smuggled the capsules into Hungary from the Netherlands on Saturday at the request of the Nigerian national, by swallowing them.
As of Sunday morning, he had recovered 61 of the 65 capsules he swallowed and they were in his possession when he was halted by police. He was hospitalized to secure safe removal of the remaining capsules.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian man who had ordered the "shipment" was apprehended in downtown Budapest shortly afterwards on Sunday, police said.
Both men were questioned and arrested, and their preliminary detention was initiated.
Each of the capsules weighed 12 gm. Enditem
