A drug courier who tried to import €191,862 worth of cocaine to Malta has been jailed for 14 years and fined €30,000.

Csaba Fazakas, 62, a Romanian, was arrested at the airport on April 23, 2011 after arriving on a flight from Zurich.

The drug was found in two packets in a false bottom of his suitcase.

Mr Fazakas pleaded guilty before undergoing trial by jury.

In a separate case, another man, Hungarian national Nemeth Arpad, 37, was jailed for eight years and fined €23,000 for importing 57 cocaine capsules in his stomach.

He was arrested on June 18 last year after flying in from Madrid.

Customs and police officers had been tipped off about him and promptly placed him under arrest.

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