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Three men, who were accused of smuggling 12 million captagon pills with an estimated street value of Dh480 million into the UAE, have been sentenced to life in prison. The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of First Instance found the defendants guilty of possessing, smuggling and trafficking drugs.
Court documents stated that the defendants hid cartons of captagon pills in water tanks placed inside a ship and smuggled it through a UAE port.
Prosecutors said the Arab men were arrested by the anti-narcotics officers following a tip-off from their sources.
Investigations - which took almost 45 days before and after the men were arrested - revealed that the Arab man were planning to sell them in the UAE and other neighbouring countries.
The trio had denied the charges when they appeared in court. They earlier told the court that the pills were for "personal use" and that they didn't know that psychotropic pills were banned in the UAE.
ismail@khaleejtimes.com
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