A Singaporean national has been nabbed trying to smuggle heroin into Australia inside a pair of cycling shorts he was wearing.
Customs officers stopped the 34-year-old man at Sydney Airport after he arrived on a flight from Bangkok on Monday morning.
They examined his baggage and, after becoming suspicious of something in big in his pants and conducted and more narrow search.
The officers discovered the man was wearing a pair of Lycra shorts under his clothes, concealing a quantity of white power.
The powder, weighing about 700 grams, allegedly tested positive for heroin, the Australian Customs Service said.
Australian Federal Police agents charged the man with one count of importing a marketable quantity of a border-controlled drug under the Criminal Code Act 1995.
The maximum penalty for an offence of this kind is a fine of 25 years imprisonment if he was caught in Singapore he would have got Death.
The man is due to appear before Sydney’s Central Local Court on Tuesday.
