Former footballer charged with drug smuggling
02.02.11
A former Liberian international footballer who had made his home in the UK has been charged with drug smuggling, the BBC reports. Arthur Farh, a one-time team-mate of George Weah, was arrested at Heathrow Airport late last month after allegedly being found with a kilo of cocaine.
Farh, 39, was stopped by UK Border Agency officers after flying in from the Caribbean on January 22. After a body search was carried out at Heathrow, officers arrested him on ‘suspicion of importing a Class A drug’. News of his arrest only became known on Tuesday after his absence was noticed by friends and family.
The UK Border Agency's website says that the former footballer ‘is suspected to have swallowed packages of cocaine’. He appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on January 23, where he was remanded in custody.
Farh earned over 30 caps for Liberia in the late 1980s and 1990s, while also enjoying a successful playing career in Europe with Rennes of France among others. While playing in Germany, Farh took German citizenship but he has recently been living in Birmingham.
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