Customs staff attached to the Airmail Parcel Section of the General Post Office, Colombo detected 1.4kgs Hashis valued at Rs. 1.4 million concealed in a skateboard yesterday at 12.30pm.
The parcel containing the skateboard was sent to a freelance journalist in the Nugegoda area from Spain. It was detected by Ruwan Kumara de Alwis, Deputy Superintendent of Customs.
Investigations are being carried out under the direction of Preethi Gallage, K.H.P. Kumarasiri, Deputy Director of Customs and by officials of the Narcotics Control Unit led by Channa Shanthapriya,Lal de silva, Superintendent of the Customs.