 | For the past nine months Irene Melissaropoulou, the 19-year-old Greek model that was caught smuggling drugs at Hong Kong airport, has languished in prison. Melissaropoulou was arrested for carrying over 2kg of high purity cocaine. Drug trafficking is a serious crime in Hong Kong, punishable by life imprisonment. |  |
If she is ultimately proven guilty on the quantity and the purity of the drugs she was carrying, she would serve 23-26 years in prison. If she pleads guilty the sentence falls to 16 years.
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