DUBAI, UAE - The Customs Intelligence Management within Dubai Customs has successfully thwarted two separate attempts to smuggle controlled drugs and restricted medications via air shipments into the country. The total haul amounted to 171,600 pills and these operations underscore the department's resolute stance against illicit activities. In the first...
Dubai Customs seizes over 200 samples of endangered animal, plant species since 2020
DUBAI, UAE - Dubai Customs (DC) successfully seized, over the past three years, nearly 330 tons and over 200 samples of animal and plant species that violate the international Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which the UAE joined in 1990. DC revealed...Dubai Customs thwart marijuana smuggling bid at international airport
Dubai Customs authorities seized 3.7kg of marijuana at Dubai International Airport terminal 1. An African passenger was trying to smuggle the drugs by stashing it inside cylindrical vehicle air filters. The officials discovered the drugs when the passenger's goods were x-ray scanned, which revealed abnormal density in some of the...
Saudi Customs impound 8.3m amphetamine pills
The Saudi Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority has made a large seizure of Captagon amphetamine pills at Jeddah Islamic Port, impounding some 8.3 million pills being smuggled into the kingdom.
A big haul of captagon shipments seized in Lebanon, Syria
Security forces in Lebanon and Syria said Saturday that they had seized two separate shipments of the banned stimulant captagon, the latest in a string of similar busts.India police charge Amazon executives over online drug sales
Indian police have charged executives from Amazon's local arm over claims the US retail behemoth's online portal was used to smuggle and sell marijuana.
