Wedding cards concealing R1 million in heroin seized at OR Tambo airport

06 July 2016 - 18:35
By TMG Digital

South African Revenue Service Customs officials at Johannesburg's OR Tambo Airport have discovered wedding cards en-route to Australia concealing 3‚5kg of heroin worth a street value of over R1 million. The parcel containing the cards was profiled by the dog detector unit during a routine inspection at an international courier company at the OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday.

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