SHAH ALAM: An Australian grandmother who said she was tricked into smuggling drugs into Malaysia after falling for an online romance scam was Wednesday cleared of trafficking, a crime punishable by death.
Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto was arrested in December 2014 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport with 1.1kg of crystal methamphetamine stitched into the compartment of a backpack she was carrying.
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