A joint control team frustrates the smuggling of 4 million and 895 thousand «Captagon» pills

A joint control team, from the Ministry of Interior and the police services in Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al -Khaimah and Fujairah, foiled the smuggling of a huge amount of narcotic disks, amounting to four million and 895 thousand tablets, smugglers tried to enter the country with a container.

The Commander -in -Chief of Dubai Police, Major General Khamis Matar Al -Muzaina, stated that the smugglers resorted to unloading cylindrical openings in two tanks, and filling them with metal columns filled with narcotic tablets, pointing to the Dubai Police received an important information from Lebanese customs, through an association officer in a Gulf state, the shipment was targeting it . In detail, Al -Muzainah said that the team, His Highness Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, has followed the process since receiving information, indicating that it started on the fifth of last February, when information was received by the Lebanese authorities, represented in the customs and combat of the customs. The drug, indicates that there is a large shipment of the drug hidden inside a container coming from Lebanon to Dubai, and the operation runs a gang that intends to re -smuggle the quantity to one of the Gulf states.

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He added that in light of this information, a working group from the General Administration of Narcotics Control in Dubai Police formed to search and investigate the shipment path, and follow -up operations resulted in the disclosure of the gang elements, who carried out procedures for rid the shipment, noting the role of customs intelligence in Dubai Customs, in cooperation with The control team, during the presence of containers in the port of Jebel Ali.

Al -Muzaina continued that the gang resorted to camouflage methods to ensure that they were not pursued, which included the transfer of the two tanks to Sharjah, and then returned them to Al -Awir again, then one of the two tanks later transferred to a farm in the Al Dhaid region in the Emirate of Sharjah, and after about a week the tank was transferred from the farm to one of the workshops Technical in the area (Thoban) in the Emirate of Fujairah, under security censorship.

He explained that the control team in Dubai was coordinated in all stages with the control devices in Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah, under the umbrella of the Ministry of Interior, until the zero hour was set about a month and a half after cautious follow -up, specifically on March 20.