Woman from Malaysia sentenced to 40 months over 40 kg of cannabis
A woman from Malaysia was sentenced in Brussels to 40 months in prison after customs found 40 kg of cannabis in two suitcases at Brussels Airport. She had arrived from Bangkok on 7 April 2026; prosecutors said phone analyses showed she knew what she was carrying and had made a similar trip before.
A woman from Malaysia arrived at Brussels Airport in Zaventem from Bangkok on
7 April 2026.[1][2][3]Customs arrested her there.[2]The Brussels criminal court
sentenced her on Thursday 5 November 2026 to 40 months in prison for drug
trafficking.[1][2][3]Customs found 20 packages weighing 40 kilograms in the
traveller’s two suitcases.[1][3]
The prosecutor said she claimed an unknown man had approached her before
departure and asked her to carry the two suitcases for payment on arrival in
Brussels, and that she had not known what was inside.[1][2]The prosecutor
said that account was implausible: phone analyses showed she knowingly made the
transport and that this was not her first such trip.[1][2]Her lawyer sought
acquittal, arguing she believed she was carrying clothes and was shocked when
customs opened the suitcases and found drugs.[1][2]Her lawyer also said she
hoped to return to her family and that her mother had recently been diagnosed
with breast cancer.[1][2]Those arguments did not convince the court.[1][2]
Customs closely monitored the route from Bangkok, which had been heavily used by
cannabis traffickers for several years.[1][2]
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Neither account gives the woman's name or exact age, only that she is in her forties and from Malaysia.
Neither account says whether the 40 kg was herbal cannabis or another cannabis product; it is recorded as herbal cannabis from the sources' word cannabis.
Neither account says whether she appealed or reports a later custody outcome.
Neither account states whether this case was connected to the Eurojust-coordinated airport baggage-hall investigation reported in October 2026.
No valuation of the cannabis or fine was published.
La Dernière Heure carries the same Belga dispatch and is not cited separately.
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