Reply #8: Was she an intentional smuggler at all?

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IIRC, there was a case in Indonesia where a young Australian woman faced years in prison and possible hanging for drug smuggling. As it turns out, she may have been completely innocent - the true drug smugglers were working as baggage handlers in Australian and Indonesian airports, and placed the heroin in her suitcase - that way, it's easy to recover the heroin on the other side, and if the heroin's caught, the hapless suitcase's owner is the one that's strung up.