Seven Iranian nationals have been sentenced to life for transporting over 425 kilos of heroin by boat in the seas off Mattakkuliya in Colombo in 2019.

The Colombo High Court issued the verdict after the suspects had pleaded guilty via their attorney when the case was taken up for hearing today. 

The suspects were arrested with a large haul of narcotics during a raid conducted by the Police Narcotics Bureau in July 2019.

Following the arrest, the Attorney General filed indictments against the suspects before the Colombo High Court.  

After pleading guilty to the charges, the Colombo High Court today ordered them to be sentenced to life. (Newswire)

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The Negombo High Court has sentenced to life 10 foreigners on charges of drug trafficking.

The group was sentenced for smuggling and the possession of 146kg of heroin in 2016.

The sentenced foreigners are all Iranian nationals. (Newswire)

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Nine Iranians who were charged with the possession and trafficking of narcotics via a boat in the seas off Sri Lanka 04 years ago have been sentenced to life in prison, it was reported.

In 2019, the suspects were arrested with over 100 kg of heroin worth over Rs.1 billion in their trawler, while it was reported at the time that another stock of some 500 kg of heroin had been dumped at sea.

Colombo High Court Judge Amal Ranaraja sentenced to life the suspects after they had pleaded guilty to the offence, before the commencement of the evidentiary hearing on the case today.

The High Court Judge also ordered that the defendants be extradited to Iran to serve one prison sentence according to the international agreement that Sri Lanka has signed.

The sentencing was issued after the lawyers representing the defendants stated that all the defendants had pleaded guilty to the charge. (NewsWire)

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