Inspectors of Dubai Customs finally thwarted the attempt to smuggle 222,455 tablets of stimulant drugs and hormones used by athletes, especially football and bodybuilders, to stimulate muscle building and raise performance strength.
This quantity is distributed among 32 cases of smuggling drugs, which were seized during the past two months, most of which are coming from Thailand, India and Pakistan, in separate continent shipments, and heading after its arrival in Dubai, to Portugal, Britain and France.
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Summary effects The health report issued by the Health Inspector in Dubai Customs stated that testosterone is a stimulant hormone used by some bodybuilders, to increase their muscles and stimulate their construction faster, with exercise. He continued that there are no side effects except in the long run (that is, about a year or more of continuous use), as it causes infertility for men often. He added that the drug Stanozolol, which is one of the stimulants that are usually used as aid, and are prohibited in sports competition, may cause liver cancer. |
Among them are two shipments from India for local use, the largest seizure of stimulant hormones is prepared, as the quantity seized in them reached 67 thousand and 260 tablets and stimulants.
In detail, the Senior Director of the Department of Air Shipping at Dubai Customs, Omar Ahmed Al -Muhairi, said that 32 air charges have tried to cross the central area of ​​the free zone at Dubai Airport and the Dubai Village for Shipping, during the past two months, carrying stimulating hormonal drugs and drugs used to stimulate the physical power of football players Sports, bodybuilding, and increased muscle size in a short period, and drugs, which are prohibited and monitoring in the state, are often in the form of tablets or injections.
Al -Muhairi pointed out that 30 continents out of 32 controlled charges were coming from Thailand, a productive country and is a source of these drugs.
He explained that 28 shipments of 145 thousand and 195 tablets of the hormones of Annapole and Androlic were intercontinental and veiled to Britain, and from there to Portugal, while two shipments included 10 thousand tablets of Annapol, which is a stimulant hormone, which was heading to France.
Al -Muhairi stated that the largest seizure of stimulant hormones was coming from India for use in Dubai, and the seized amount reached four balls of 58 thousand and 960 tablets and 8,300 syringes, including testosterone, Stanusolol and Napole, pointing out that one of the inspectors of the Dubai Village Lashing Center had been suspected, during Random inspection of shipments coming from India, in the shipment that was known in its customs statement as medicines, without reference to the type of drugs. When manually searched the shipment, it was found that it includes stimulant drugs and hormones, which necessitated sending a sample of them to the health inspector in the village of shipment, to confirm that the drugs are prohibited stimulants.
After that, a customs decision of legal affairs was issued to re -send the shipment to the source, with the report of the Health Inspector, the seriousness of the contents of the shipment.
Al -Muhairi added that another shipment coming from Pakistan tried to cross the Inspection Center of the Free Zone at Dubai Airport, including about 9195 tablets of Sustanon, Solo Midrol and Dika Durabolin, all of which are drugs that are not traded according to the report of the Health Inspector, pointing out that most shipments are sent to the source country Due to the difficulty of destroying it in the country because of its harm to the environment.
Al -Muhairi stressed that the random inspection campaigns carried out by Dubai Customs, in addition to the permanent inspection of shipments across X -rackets, contribute to thwarting the smuggling of most prohibited and monitoring drug controls.
He stated that Dubai Customs monitors several medical companies, to reduce the smuggling of drugs and drugs that are forbidden and monitoring.
He pointed to the importance of the cooperation of the responsible authorities in the state with regard to the tightening of the crossing and the use of such drugs, because of their damages to consumer health, especially since most users of stimulant drugs are young and athletes in particular, and often they do not realize the risk of hormones to use their health.
It is noteworthy that customs inspectors were able to thwart the smuggling of banned drugs and sexual drugs whose quantity was estimated at three million and 52 thousand and 253 tablets within 10 separate seizures last year, including one million and 50 thousand sexual tablets, 1,000 narcotic tablets, 8190 discs for miscarriage, 1,000 tablets of banned sexual tonics and four cartons of hormonal drugs And 87 barrels of sexual drugs, and two million tablets of a drug tramadol, which is one of the monitored drugs, is internationally imported, as part of an air shipment coming from India, carrying drugs and medical drugs, belonging to a public trade company that is not licensed to import medicines.
Dubai Customs prohibits the traveler to bring prohibited substances circulating. These substances include all types of drugs, stimulant hormones, prohibited drugs and monitoring, while allowing drugs to bring in personal use for a period not exceeding three months, and prevents the entry of neurological and psychiatric drugs.
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