A drug courier was arrested at the airport with 60 cocaine capsules in his stomach, the police said.
The 24-year-old Romanian man was stopped on his arrival from Dusseldorf, Germany on Friday evening.
Customs officials and the police suspected that the man was carrying drugs and further investigation revealed that he had swallowed about 600 grams of cocaine packed in capsules.
On Saturday, the police arrested a 32-year-old Nigerian from San Ġwann when he went to pick up the drugs in Sliema.
The two men are expected to be arraigned in the coming days.