Two held with over 2m pills of banned drug

DUBAI — The Anti-Narcotics Department of Dubai Police last week foiled an attempt to smuggle out of UAE more than two million narcotic pills with a street value of Dh20 million.

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Amira Agarib

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Published: Wed 15 Aug 2007, 8:54 AM

Last updated: Sun 5 Apr 2015, 1:55 AM

This was stated yesterday by Lt. Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansour, Deputy Director in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Dubai Police.

He said that the police had received information that a group of Arab nationals were looking for someone to transport the banned drug, Keptajon, to Saudi Arabia. They also learnt that the group had managed to smuggle 2,140,000 capsules of the drug from another Arab country. On Thursday, the police set a trap in the Al Qusais area to arrest the traffickers who came with the pills weighing 380kg hidden in a truck which was, in fact, provided by a police source.

The police arrested A.H. and B.M. red-handed. They later confessed to their crime. The two alleged traffickers were referred to the Dubai Public Prosecution.


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