A 38-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for importing opioids.
The Paphos district court found the man guilty of importing 500g of dried poppy pods, in a parcel which arrived at Larnaca airport in June.
The police drug squad stopped the suspect while riding a motorcycle in Paphos and found 1g of powder, suspected to have come from dried poppy pods, during the search.
The suspect was remanded to facilitate investigations.
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