The moment of thwarting 5 attempts to smuggle more than a million Captagon pills into the Kingdom, hidden by cunning methods, and the arrest of its recipients • Al-Marsad Newspaper

Al-Marsad newspaper: The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority at Al-Haditha port managed to thwart 5 attempts to smuggle 1,491,859 million Captagon pills, which were found hidden in trucks and vehicles delivered to the Kingdom through the port.

hidden in different ways

The authority explained that when a number of trucks and vehicles were subjected to customs procedures and inspected through security techniques and live means “sniffer dogs”, these quantities of Captagon pills were found hidden in different ways, as the authority revealed that in the first attempt, which was thwarted at modern customs, were found. It contained 774,418 pills, which were hidden in the floor cavity of one of the vehicles of the “special” type and in the vehicle’s fuel tank, and added that in the second aborted attempt, 272,093 pills were found, hidden in separate places in one of the trucks coming to the Kingdom through the port, and in the same way Previous smuggling A third attempt to smuggle 269,767 Captagon pills into another truck was thwarted.

Fourth and fifth attempt

The authority added that a fourth attempt was also thwarted at Al-Haditha port, in which 134,884 Captagon pills were hidden in the floor of one of the incoming trucks.

Capture her future

The authority explained that following coordinating with the General Directorate of Narcotics Control, in order to ensure the arrest of the recipients of the seized items, two persons were arrested by the grace of God.

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