I dealt a pre-emptive strike against an international gang

Dubai Police thwart smuggling 436 kg of narcotics hidden in an unconventional way

In a proactive operation, the General Department of Anti-Narcotics in Dubai Police thwarted an attempt by an international gang to smuggle drugs to a neighboring country, by bringing in 280 bags weighing 5.6 tons, containing a mixture of natural beans and plastic beans stuffed with drugs.

Dubai Police said in a statement that the search and investigation teams of the General Administration for Drug Control stood on the lookout for the gang members, raided the storage warehouse and arrested 6 suspects, and extracted "toxins" from plastic bean kernels with a quantity weighing 436 kilograms of drugs, in a record time estimated at 7 hours. Continuous work.

She added that the operation began when reliable source information was received about the possession of an international gang, some of whose members reside in the country, and others outside it, large quantities of narcotics, professionally hidden inside the beans, and that the quantity is stored in a warehouse in one of the emirates of the country.

She added that a field technical team with a high level of expertise and efficiency was formed to search, investigate, monitor and follow up information, and was able to locate the warehouse and subject it to monitoring. Natural and plastic foodstuffs stuffed with drugs, with plans to re-export them to one of the neighboring countries. 

Dubai Police confirmed that "Operation Bean" is one of the exceptional operations, especially with regard to investigating information and inspecting the warehouse and foodstuffs, which required a high sense of security to find narcotics hidden inside plastic food, and police dogs were used to detect them.

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