Drug traffickers devise new and unconventional means to smuggle their toxins into the state, but in return the control agencies are keen to develop their tools and the expertise of their men to deal with these crimes and uncover all new criminal methods.
Last year, according to the Public Prosecution files, witnessed several attempts to smuggle drugs in a variety of ways, including hiding them in male ounces, and in pots and cooking utensils after making a fake layer of tin to hide the drug without showing any difference, and inside the columns of wheelchairs in order to circumvent humanly any Suspicions of them, as well as an attempt to smuggle drugs in lists of suitcases and their iron bars, and inside diesel filters on a marine ship, boat cabinets, shoes, cream cans, and metal alloys, as well as seize drug-saturated clothing.
According to the files of the courts and the Public Prosecution Office in Dubai during the past year, the Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a traveler to 10 years in prison for trying to smuggle 2.3 kilograms of cocaine into an ounce of memory, and also fined him 100,000 dirhams and deportation.
According to the Public Prosecution investigations, the suspect was arrested on February 10, when he landed on a transit flight at Dubai Airport on his way to Egypt, from South America.
She pointed to the arrest of 80 condoms filled with a substance suspected by customs inspectors and found to be a cocaine drug, so he was referred to the criminal court in Dubai, and he admitted that he was planning to smuggle it to Egypt.
A report issued by the General Department of Forensic Evidence in Dubai Police confirmed that the male condoms that were seized contained 2.3 kg of cocaine mixed with an oily liquid.
While Dubai Customs seized a drug smuggling operation hidden in a wheelchair wheelchair claiming that it is one of the owners of determination to pass it through Dubai International Airport during the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi last March, taking advantage of the facilities provided to those of determination through the country’s outlets and the international event, and seized another accused Accompanied by him, he tried to smuggle drugs inside his shoes and was convicted by the criminal court in Dubai, and sentenced each to 10 years in prison.
The criminal court in Dubai also sentenced 10 years to an Asian traveler who hid the heroin drug inside a laptop computer directly behind the screen, and hid another quantity inside the columns of his suitcase used to pull it, but he was outnumbered by the customs officers and he was caught.
It is one of the most prominent drug cases recorded during the past year, according to the prosecution's files. They include hashish, crystal, opium, and heroin.
The operation was carried out by the Dubai Police’s anti-drug team, in coordination with criminal investigations and investigations, the security of bodies, facilities and emergencies, and Dubai Customs.
Advanced technologies
Salih Ahmed Al Shehhi, a first prosecutor at the Dubai Drug Prosecution, said that drug smuggling gangs are using advanced technologies in their operations to escape punishment, as they no longer rely on physical communication in delivery and receipt operations, but rather hide drugs in a place, and guide their customers to their place through The technology of geolocation, 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 great challenge to the control devices that make exceptional efforts to control the smugglers and promoters.