“Two Citizens Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Drug Smuggling: Al-Marsad Newspaper Reports”

2023-05-07 08:41:11

Al-Marsad Newspaper: The Criminal Court in Najran sentenced two citizens to 10 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 riyals, following convicting them of smuggling a quantity of khat and pregabalin from Yemen into the Kingdom.

In the reasons for the ruling, the court said that this crime is one of the criminal acts stipulated in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Law.

She explained that the defendants were found guilty of drug smuggling, promotion and trafficking, as they were seized with 1,647 grams of the anesthetic khat, and 810 pills of the banned mind-altering pregabalin.

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