The Customs & Excise Department has arrested a 60-year old man after officers seized about 3.05kg of cocaine worth $3.16 million at the airport.

Customers officers yesterday found the drugs concealed inside four packs of salad dressing in the passenger's luggage on his arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Johannesburg, South Africa.

He will be charged with trafficking in a dangerous drug and appear at Shatin Magistracy tomorrow.