Nigerian arrested for drug-trafficking gets final judgment in Cambodia (photo)
- Precious Chineme Nwoko has lost his appeal in court after he was sentenced for drug-trafficking
- He was accused of dating women only to use them as drug mules
-+ He was sentenced in 2014 but lost the appeal for a reduced sentence
Precious Chineme Nwoko who is a Nigerian drug lord convicted in Cambodia has lost his appeal after he was sentenced to 27-years behind bars.
Vanguard reports that the criminal who is also known as Precious Max has been linked with several Australian women who have also been arrested for transporting drugs.
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The Phnom Penh Municipal Court in May 2014 sentenced then-19-year-old Frenchwoman Charlene Savarino to 25 years imprisonment, 41-year-old Ann Yoshe Taylor of Australia to 23 years imprisonment while 23-year-old Precious Nwoko of Nigeria got 27 years.
They had appealed the sentence but the court upheld the convictions.
They were arrested in September 2013 at Phnom Penh International Airport after police found 2.2 kilograms of heroin in Taylor’s luggage as they prepared to fly together to Australia.
Nwoko was the mastermind while Savarino was saddled with making arrangement.
When asked why he dated women just to use them to transport drugs, Nwoko reportedly got angry.
He said: “Are you stupid? Get out of here. You think you can come here and ask questions while I am jail.”
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Nwoko had posed as a successful South African businessman in Phnom Penh when he befriended Taylor on the internet.
She became romantically involved with him after he had paid for her airfare to Cambodia.
She was apprehended by the police after the discovery of the drugs which later led to the arrest of Nwoko.
This incident is coming a few weeks after the Singaporean government executed Chijioke Stephen Obioha for drug trafficking in the early hours of Friday, November 18.
Obioha was found in possession of 2,604.56g of cannabis, surpassing the statutory amount of 500 grams that under Singapore law triggers the automatic presumption of trafficking in 2007.