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Limping pensioner had $1,000,000+ of cocaine in his shoes

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A pensioner who limped off a flight into Austria's main Vienna airport was found to have £600,000 worth of cocaine stuffed in his shoes.

The 66-year-old was initially ignored by the authorities because he looked so harmless.

But he was selected for a spot check because his flight from Montevideo to Vienna took him by a suspiciously long route via Sao Paulo and Frankfurt.

An x-ray of his shoes revealed the soles were stacked with 1.3 kilos of cocaine. He was arrested and faces charges of drug trafficking.

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