22kg of drugs found in suitcase at Ercan airport

Turkish Cypriot police have arrested two people after they found 22 kilograms of drugs on a luggage at Ercan Airport. 

According to police report, customs officers carried out a search on a luggage belonging to a 51-year-old man who came into the country as a tourist at about 2:15am on Saturday at the airport.

Police found substance believed to be about 20 kilograms of cannabis-type drugs and other substance of about 2 kilograms.

The substance is worth about 4 million Turkish Lira, said police. 

The suspect, a Russian citizen identified as Igor Yusin to police “I didn't know what was in the suitcase”.

He was sent to jail pending trial.