The Dubai Public Prosecution referred to the Criminal Court a gang of seven persons accused of importing 72 kilograms of methamphetamine, and hiding it inside auto parts.
A Dubai customs inspection officer said that he was at the head of his work in the Jebel Ali port, and suspected a container. After checking it, it turned out that it contained auto parts, so the guarding was tightened until the importer came, and the container remained in the port for more than 50 days.
He added that after 50 days, the customs broker attended, along with the representative of the company that is supposed to receive the suspicious shipment, and who paid the delay penalties prescribed for the shipment, and upon searching the container carefully, a large amount of drugs was found hidden in the spare parts, and all the suspects related to the operation were seized. Import.
A witness from the General Department of Narcotics Control in Dubai Police said that he participated in the process of arresting the suspects and in interrogating the first of them. He stated that the shipment was due to a person outside the state. The first accused was asked to pay the delay fine.
In a separate case, the Criminal Court in Dubai started the trial of two Asian accused of importing a container containing wooden boards hidden inside 74 thousand and 340 drug pills.
A witness from the General Department of Narcotics Control in the Dubai Police said that Dubai Customs found the narcotic pills hidden inside the container, so the customs broker was contacted, and the process of transporting the shipment to a warehouse in the third industrial zone of Sharjah was transferred, then someone moved it to the fifth industrial zone, and there he attended They were accused of unloading them, were caught red-handed, and admitted knowing that the shipment contained narcotics.