UAE BARQ برق الإمارات – نبضك
Dubai Customs has foiled an attempt to smuggle 800 thousand Cptagon pills into the country which was hidden inside fuel tank of a boat in Jebel Ali port in a special seizure called ‘International Day Against Drugs Operation’.
It all started when Customs Intelligence officers became suspicious of an inbound shipment to Jebel Ali Port that was flagged by the Risk Engine system as a high-risk container consignment from an Arab country.
A team was formed from the Special Tasks staff of the Customs Intelligence Department and inspection officers at Jebel Ali Customs Inspection Centre to carefully track down the movement of the shipment. Upon scanning the container using the Advanced Container Scanning System, an abnormal density was observed and with the help of the Customs K-9 Dog unit – the illegal Captagon pills were uncovered.
In the presence of the concerned importer, the team in-charge dismantled the fuel tank to find a large number of transparent bags printed with an ‘L’ brand. The bags contained a total of 800,000 Captagon pills with a street value of Dh3 million.
Commenting on the seizure, Shuaib Al Suwaidi, director of Customs Intelligence, pointed out that the drug smuggling attempt was efficiently foiled thanks to the targeting and risk assessment capacities of the Risk Engine system which was developed in-house by Dubai Customs.
