A 37-year-old Indian businessman has been arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) while allegedly attempting to smuggle over 7kg of narcotics out of Sri Lanka.

Airport Police Narcotics Bureau officers recovered 2kg and 102g of Kush concealed in four tins labelled as containing tamarind toffees, and 5kg and 260g of Hashish concealed in six parcels.

The seized drugs have an estimated value of Rs. 231.42 million.

The suspect, a resident of Tamil Nadu, India, arrived from Kuala Lumpur on Batik Air flight OD-297.

He is due to be produced before the Negombo Magistrate's Court today (7 November) to obtain detention orders for further investigations.