Pretoria - A 50-year-old man travelling on a British passport is expected to appear a second time in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on the East Rand on Monday for allegedly dealing in khat.
SA Police Service (SAPS) spokesman Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said Graeme John Richards, 50, was arrested by members of the SAPS border policing unit at OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday night for allegedly being in possession of 26kg of khat, valued at R52 000.
He was about to board a flight bound for Zürich.
“He faces charges of dealing in drugs. Khat is a leafy plant, indigenous to East Africa, and is used as a stimulant when chewed,” he said on Sunday.
Richards’s court appearance on Monday would be for him to make a formal bail application, and he had been remanded in custody.
The SAPS was planning to oppose bail to allow for the investigation team to conduct further investigations.
“His passport shows that he had arrived into the country two days prior to being arrested,” Naidoo said.
African News Agency