Czech woman awarded over 8 years jail for smuggling heroin

LAHORE: A sessions court in Lahore on Wednesday sentenced Czech national Tereza Hluskova to eight years and eight months in prison and fined Rs113,000 after she was found carrying eight and a half kilograms of heroin last year from Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport, reported Geo News.

Hluskova was arrested while attempting to smuggle the heroin from Lahore to Abu Dhabi while she was in Pakistan on a three-month family visit visa.

Customs officials refused to hand over Hluskova to Anti-Narcotics Force officials and she has been shifted to the Customs House. The court had reserved its verdict in the case on March 12.

During the hearing, Additional Sessions Judge Shehzad Raza handed an eight year and eight months prison term to Hluskova while pronouncing her guilty. The court acquitted co-accused Shoaib on the grounds of not enough evidence against him.