He did not pass the scanner: he was going to get on the plane, he became nervous and they found 81 capsules of cocaine in the stomach.

The airport security police (PSA) arrested a Brazilian at Ezeiza International Airport while he was trying to transport close to one kilo of cocaine to New Zealand, according to the national body.

During the course of the work performed by members of the United Nations (Aircop) -owned airport communications program, they observed a pbadenger boarding Air New Zealand flight NZ031 to Auckland. .

The man reacted incongruously and hesitantly when they approached him, even though one of them showed a state of obvious nervousness.

For this reason, PSA agents performed a thorough and non-invasive body check, in the presence of witnesses, with the help of an X-ray machine called a "body scan".

The possible presence of different objects in his body was observed, which explains his immediate transfer to the interzonal hospital of Ezeiza, where doctors verified that he possessed strange elements in the digestive system .

Over the next five days, the man dropped 81 packages of cocaine by 962 grams.

The detainee was at the disposal of National Criminal Court No. 4, headed by Alejandro Catania.