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Japanese court convicts Australian who says she was tricked into smuggling drugs

  • An Australian woman, Donna Nelson, was sentenced to six years for smuggling 2 kg of methamphetamine into Japan, hidden in her suitcase.
  • Nelson claimed she was unaware of the drugs, saying they were placed there by a man she met online.
  • Prosecutors argued she knew about the drugs and questioned her credibility regarding her fiancé visit intent.
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Australian grandmother jailed in Japan issues statement: ‘Extremely disappointed’

The Australian grandmother jailed overseas after falling for an alleged romance scam has broken her silence.

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Woman thought she traveled to Japan for love, but gets six years in prison for drug smuggling

An Australian woman has been sentenced to six years in prison in Japan for smuggling the drug methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, into the country.

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Japan court gives prison sentence to 'once love scam victim' for smuggling drugs

An Australian woman was sentenced to six years of imprisonment by a court in Japan after they found her guilty of smuggling methamphetamine into the country. The woman claimed that she was a victim of an online romance scam, however, the court chose to ignore it. The court found the woman, identified as Donna Nelson from Perth, guilty of smuggling 2 kg of the drug which was hidden beneath her suitcase's false bottom when she landed at Narita ai

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Japanese court convicts Australian of drug trafficking

Perth grandmother Donna Nelson has been jailed for six years for drug trafficking in Japan despite a court accepting her claims of being a romance scam victim.

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Japanese court convicts Australian who says she was tricked into smuggling drugs

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced an Australian woman to six years in prison for smuggling amphetamines into the country, despite accepting her testimony that she was tricked as part of an online romance scam.

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Perth gran learns fate in Japanese court

A verdict has been handed down in the trial of a Perth grandmother accused of smuggling two kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.

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infobalkans.com broke the news in on Tuesday, December 3, 2024.
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