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Dutch Olympian arrested with 50kg of ecstasy and crystal meth in boot of her car worth £1.8m

A DUTCH Olympic athlete has reportedly been arrested in Germany with nearly £2million worth of ecstasy and crystal meth in the boot of her car.

Madiea Ghafoor - a 400m sprinter - was apprehended near Holland's border with Germany on Thursday, June 18 with 50kg of drugs, according to NOS (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation).

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Dutch Olympian Madiea Ghafoor has reportedly been arrested with 50kg of ecstasy and crystal meth worth nearly £2million in the boot of her carCredit: Getty - Contributor

Ghafoor, 26, was Dutch National Indoor 400m champion in 2018 and was part of the 4x400m relay team in the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

According to , German police arrested the sprinter during a routine check near the border town of Elten - which is just 17 miles from the city of Arnhem in Holland.

Though the German public prosecution department confirmed a Dutch woman had been arrested, they did not confirm her identity.

But the same office did confirm the drugs have a street value of a staggering £1.8m.

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And this is not the first story involving athletes getting mixed up with drugs in recent days.

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