7 bizarre ways smugglers trafficked drugs into UAE

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7 bizarre ways smugglers trafficked drugs into UAE

Dubai - Some methods were downright cunning.

By Web Report

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Published: Mon 21 Jan 2019, 11:01 AM

Last updated: Mon 21 Jan 2019, 5:16 PM

The ways and methods of drug trafficking in the UAE have been put on display in honour of World Customs Day.
The Abu Dhabi Customs Authority organised the exhibition being held at their general headquarters at Siemens building in Masdar city.
In the exhibit, items used to smuggle drugs contrasted with dummy capsules and contraband placed in their vacant chambers.
While some methods were striking and cunning, others were downright bizarre.
A smuggler in 2014 stuffed marijuana in a popular brand of black tea bags. The officer on duty, Mohamed Al Hashemi, suspected the items and discovered the drugs. The tea bags had come from Bangladesh, through India, then Bahrain before finally being smuggled into UAE.
Opium was discovered inside a tube of toothpaste while cocaine was stuffed within a shaving brush.    
Using household, cosmetic and hygiene items to smuggle pills was a common theme, including handbrush, shampoo, soap, assorted make-up containers, even bath sponges. 
More bizarre methods included one smuggler who sliced the top of oranges, vacated the fruit pulp, and stuffed the cavity with captagon pills. Peanut shells were used in a similar manner in 2013. Another method was the utilization of a child's diaper. 
One person hollowed out some pages within a book and placed a plastic bag of cocaine inside.      
Even beer cans were smuggled by inserting them inside plastic dishwashing soap bottles.  
One clever individual decided to smuggle fake bank notes and hashish in his shoe.

- lujein@khaleejtimes.com 


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