The Abu Dhabi Police arrested a person who tried to smuggle 4.5 million Captagon pills hidden inside canned foodstuffs, before attempting to smuggle them to a sister country.
According to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), the Director of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate in the Criminal Security Sector in Abu Dhabi Police, Brigadier General Taher Al-Dhaheri, revealed that the operation was successful after implementing a tight security plan to track the suspect’s movements, after receiving information from secret private sources to the Directorate about the intention of the accused to smuggle a large amount of Captagon pills into the UAE, in preparation for smuggling them to one of the sister countries, reports Al-Rai daily.
The agency explained that the anti-drug team monitored the moment the accused arrived at one of the state’s ports and imported a large amount of preserved green bean cans and after the cans were opened security authorities found pills inside the cans.
Al-Dhaheri added that the professionalism of the control elements resulted in the arrest of the accused person and his plan
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