Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s office strongly denied the claim that his plane was “full of cocaine” when he came to India for the G20 meet this month.
“This (is) absolutely false and a troubling example of how disinformation can make its way into media reporting,” his office said in a statement on Wednesday as it dismissed the unsubstantiated claim floated by a retired Indian diplomat during a TV discussion, according to the Toronto Star.
The bizarre claim, which has been widely reported in the Indian media, comes amid a fierce diplomatic spat between the two countries. Canada and India have both ejected one of each other’s senior diplomats after Mr Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” of Indian state involvement in the death of a Sikh leader in Canada.
Former Indian ambassador to Sudan Deepak Vohra said on Monday there were “credible rumours” that “sniffer dogs found cocaine on his plane” and that Mr Trudeau “didn’t come out of his room for two days”.
“He didn’t go to the president’s dinner. People say he was in a drug-induced stupor,” Mr Vohra claimed while appearing on Zee News as a panelist on a show hosted by anchor Deepak Chaurasia.
The show began as the anchor attempted to unpack “how the brain of the Canadian prime minister worked”.
“Does he have a brain? He is a tiny infant,” responded Mr Vohra, adding that when his wife spotted Mr Trudeau at Delhi airport, he looked “troubled”.
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