Salih Ahmed Al Shehhi, the first prosecutor of the Dubai’s Drug Prosecution, said that a man, his wife, and their children were hiding drugs in their guts trying to smuggle them for 5,000 dirhams, and they were caught at Dubai airport, pointing out that drug smuggling gangs are using advanced techniques in their operations to escape punishment. It no longer relies on physical communication in delivery and receipt operations, but hides drugs in a place, and guides customers to them through geolocation technology, while the heads of those gangs manage the entire operations from outside the country, without the need to arrange a meeting between the buyer and the seller, which represents a major challenge For Mac devices Ascochyta that are making extraordinary efforts to control smugglers and promoters.
In detail, Al-Shehhi stated, on the sidelines of a symposium held in the framework of a legal awareness campaign jointly between the Public Prosecution in Dubai and the Community Development Authority, in the Rashidiya Council, that smuggling through guts is one of the crimes that violate humanity, as gangs exploit the poor in their country and stuff them with drugs, without Looking at their safety, pointing out that among the cases registered by the Public Prosecution was the case of a man, his wife and his son (10 years), all of whom hid drugs in their guts trying to smuggle them through Dubai Airport for 5,000 dirhams.
He stated that drug crimes are always linked to no less serious crimes, such as trafficking in human beings, money laundering and counterfeiting of currencies, as they are included among the organized crimes committed by international gangs, pointing out that by virtue of the professional relationship between the prosecution and Dubai police, he realizes the great burden that anti-drug men bear in dealing with Smuggling operations have become more complicated and difficult, especially in light of harnessing modern technologies to serve the purposes of these gangs.
He explained that the current recurring method is to completely manage the promotion from abroad, so the abuser or the little promoter transfers the funds to an account abroad belonging to the gang, then the drugs are hidden in a place that is difficult to discover, and the site is sent in a text message to the customer who brings it without any need for direct communication with Any of the gang members, and this reflects the size of the challenges faced by the control agencies, it is no longer easy to track these gangs like the previous one.
He pointed out that the repeated method so far in some smuggling operations is to hide drugs in the guts by exploiting the poor and needy in some countries and turning them into mobile containers for drugs, despite the extreme danger to them, and dozens of smugglers died when drug capsules exploded in their guts, noting that Accused of controlling inside them huge quantities of up to 80 capsules and the common factor in most of the seizures was the paleness of the smuggler's face and his exposure to a tired case.
He explained that people who smuggle drugs in their guts face two dangers, the first being death if those capsules explode inside them and poison them, and the second being arrested and imprisoned for up to 10 years or more.
The Dubai Drug Prosecution referred several cases of intestinal smuggling to the criminal court this year, including an Asian case that concealed nearly 100 capsules and its case still pending before the court, another concealed 54 capsules and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and a third sentenced to seven years in prison for hiding 17 capsules.
Intensive awareness campaigns
Salih Ahmed Al Shehhi, the First Deputy Prosecutor of Drugs in Dubai, confirmed that the state is concerned with protecting its children from the danger of drugs, so awareness campaigns are intensified, because smuggling operations will not stop in any of the countries of the world.
He added that the state made amendments to the law, to secure the future of the young man, especially if he first used it. Previously, cannabis users were committing a felony that deserved to be imprisoned for four years, and turned into a misdemeanor in the new law, and its punishment is a fine.