A seller buys drugs through the "Messenger" application

A woman trying to smuggle khat inside bananas

The Dubai Criminal Court has started the trial of an African visitor, accused of hiding 4.5 kilograms of the drug khat inside a banana fruit, and attempting to smuggle it to the country through Dubai Airport.

The trial of an Asian salesman on charges of facilitating drug use for others referred to the misdemeanour court, on charges of drug abuse, began. And leave the money in the same location.

In the first case, a Dubai Customs inspector reported that on April 13, it was suspected that prohibited substances were in a carton box belonging to the accused, as an abnormal density was observed in it.

When the traveler asked whether she wanted to disclose anything in her possession, she replied in the negative, so the box was searched, and food items were found inside, which are rolls of banana fruit tightly wrapped, then they were opened and inside the bananas were found green leaves that have the distinctive shape of khat leaves. Legal procedures were taken, and the seized drugs were referred to the General Department of Criminal Evidence.

In the second case, the Public Prosecution Office in Dubai referred an Asian seller on charges of facilitating drug use for others, and a witness from the Dubai Police stated in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, that reliable information from the source was received about the accused’s use of drugs with others, and he possessed a quantity of them, so they moved to their residence , and watched him with another person, and he was led to a metal box containing plastic bags in which there is a transparent substance that has the characteristic appearance of crystal dope.

When the accused was questioned, he stated that he had obtained the drug through a person who promoted it through the “Messenger” application, as he sent him a coordinate of the drug location, so he went there, obtained it, and left the money in the same place.

The witness added that three other defendants were arrested for drug abuse, and they admitted that they had obtained crystal drug from the accused, so he was charged with a felony of facilitating drug use.

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