Customs seizes Rs 60m of drugs in nine postal parcels
Sri Lanka Customs opened nine uncollected foreign postal parcels at the Central Mail Exchange in Colombo and seized kush, hashish, ecstasy and cocaine worth Rs 60.26 million. The parcels came from Thailand, Spain, Britain and the US; the drugs went to the Police Narcotic Bureau.
🇱🇰 Central Mail Exchange, Colombo · Sri Lanka
- Cannabis
- 6 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- LKR 60,260,000
Sri Lanka Customs officers opened nine foreign postal parcels held at the Central Mail Exchange in Colombo and seized narcotics with a street value of Rs 60.26 million.[1][2] The haul was 4,934 grams of kush cannabis worth Rs 49.34 million, 1,035 grams of hashish worth Rs 10.35 million, 25 grams of ecstasy tablets and four grams of cocaine.[1][2]
Three parcels had arrived from Thailand and two each from Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, picked up during routine inspections of incoming international mail over several months.[1][2] Customs detained the suspicious parcels pending collection, and examined them with Police Narcotic Bureau officers after the recipients failed to claim them.[1] One account says the parcels were addressed to fictitious local addresses.[2]
The Narcotics Control Unit and the Postal Appraising Branch ran the examination with the Bureau’s officers.[1] Customs handed the drugs to the Police Narcotic Bureau for investigation and legal proceedings; the reports name no arrests.[1][2]
Photos and video
- Bags of seized kush and blocks of hashish on display Photos: Newswire
- Officers examine the nine parcels and the labelled exhibits at the mail exchange Photos: Financial Chronicle
Sources
- Customs seizes narcotics worth over Rs. 60 million in foreign postal parcels. Newswire, 28 October 2026.
- Rs. 60.2M Narcotics Shipment Blows Open Postal Smuggling. Financial Chronicle, 29 October 2026.