Sepang (Malaysia) (AFP) - An Australian lady confronts a conceivable capital punishment for medication trafficking in Malaysia after a prosecutor said Thursday a scientific expert's report affirmed the substance found in her pack was gem methamphetamine.
Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, a 52-year-old mother of four, was captured on December 7 at Kuala Lumpur air terminal with 1.1 kilograms (2.4 pounds) of the medication, otherwise called ice, court records demonstrated.
Prosecutor Hasifulkhair Jamaluddin told the officer's court that Exposto had been trafficking methamphetamine in light of the scientist's report.
Officer Noor Hafizah Salim then requested the case to be exchanged to the high court.
Malaysia has a required capital punishment by hanging for anybody discovered blameworthy of conveying more than 50 grams of a medication.
Powers already said Exposto was trafficking 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine.
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Australian national Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto arrives …
Australian national Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto touches base at the Magistrate Court in Sepang on April 30 …
Exposta, who was wearing a white pullover and dark jeans, looked apprehensive when the altered charge was perused to her.
The barrier is yet to enter a supplication until the case achieves the high court subsequent to the bring down justice's court has no purview to hear capital punishment cases.
Later as she was being driven out of the detainment room in cuffs, the Australian told AFP that she was guiltless and gestured her head three times.
"Yes (I am guiltless)," she said with a grin.
No date has been set for the high court listening to yet protection legal advisors said the trial could start not long from now.
"We are certain that we can demonstrate her guiltlessness at the trial," Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, her direction, told AFP.
Safeguard legal counselors say Exposto was hoodwinked into conveying a sack - which she accepted contained just attire - by an outsider who requesting that her take it to Melbourne.
She had headed out to Shanghai in the wake of falling for an online sentiment trick by an individual asserting to be a US serviceman, as indicated by attorneys.
Traditions officers found the medications sewed into the compartment of a knapsack.
Two Australians were hanged in 1986 for heroin trafficking - the first Westerners to be executed in Malaysia.
Couple of individuals have been executed in Malaysia latel
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