Posted on 05/24/2024 2:40:27 PM PDT by dynachrome
An Australian mother of five is facing the death penalty in Taiwan after she was allegedly caught with a stash of cocaine hidden in her suitcase.
Debbie Voulgaris, 57, was arrested at Taoyuan International Airport in December after the drugs were allegedly found in black plastic bags inside her luggage.
Taiwanese police allege she was carrying 15lbs of the drug, which - they say - she initially 'vehemently denied' having any knowledge of.
She later claimed her ex-husband John was behind the scheme, police say.
Ms Voulgaris's lawyer Leon Huang said it was 'essential' her ex took the stand as he was the only person who could confirm her claims.
Under Taiwan's strict legal system, capital punishment remains legal - despite repeal attempts. The death penalty can be imposed for a long list of crimes, including murder, treason, terrorism, extreme cases of rape and robbery, and drug trafficking.
Although Taiwan has studied other methods of execution, such as the lethal injection, executions are today carried out by shootings using a handgun.
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She’s 57?!
too good point
Quite an expensive divorce!
Every ‘Murder Show’ Beau and I watch, one of us says:
“It’s always the Husband. It’s always the Husband. It’s always the Husband!”
I don’t doubt you. It just seems that 15lbs of the stuff is a bit over the top.
I’m in agreement that’s probably lying, now that I think about it. If it had been a much smaller amount, but still more than enough for personal use, I could give her the benefit of the doubt.
The market rate of 15lbs of cocaine retails for between $600,000 and $900,000. I don’t know what the wholesale rate is, however, so I don’t know what the real loss would be if she was an unwitting mule.
$600,000 to $900,000 is too much, imo, for an ex-husband to screw over the wife when something closer to 30gms would probably do it.
All her troubles are caused by her ex. Her life would have been so wonderful without him.
Semiconductor company I used to work for, offered to pay for a PRE-Screening of your suitcase. They would then shrink wrap it in a Saran Wrap and you would pick it up on the OTHER side of Customs
Seems to me a very sane choice. Not sure it it’s still being offered
“carried out by shootings using a handgun.”
Up close and personal
I can understand a few ounces going unnoticed but not 15 pounds!
Aussies have been caught smuggling drugs in Indonesia where they get executed by firing squad at dawn.
At least several Asian countries don’t fool around regarding drugs. If this woman is correct then she can look to her husband as her killer...not Taiwan.
Execution threat....
Bon Jovi
would sing....
Shot through the heart
And you’re to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part
And you play your game
You give love a bad name
You give love
A bad name
While waiting in line to reach the Immigration/Customs area there was a sign...in several languages...saying the same thing. Next to it was a big trash bin labeled "Amnesty Bin".
I was so spooked I almost tossed my blood pressure meds in it just in case.
I didn't do so...and lived to have two more experiences with Singapore's Customs Service.
15 lbs? If that amount is accurate, well, next time you’re going somewhere, put three 5-lb bags of sugar or flour in your suitcase and then try not noticing it’s there the moment you lift your suitcase.
Yep, you get to see the prisoner take their final walk out of the death row and being lead to a shed in the back, usually they get a last meal that’s an average bento box, you get a short bottle of grain alcohol. and even then, they still administer anesthesia before leading the guilty to the middle of the shed where it is just earthen ground, they make the inmate lay on their stomach, a paper target with the location of their heart is put on the back. and then one shot....
they do not allow death row inmates to donate their organs anymore.
Your wife got to have her cake and eat it too.
Well, if her ex wanted to get rid of her for good, then that would be the way to do it,
The Chinese communists solved their opium problem with the death penalty. If they caught a dealer, they just shot him. Users got a 60 days in a rehab facility. If the caught him using again, they shot him. I think it is really the only way to successfully deal with this problem.
Taiwan version of “The bitch set me up.”
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