Saudi authorities thwart bid to smuggle 12.7m amphetamine pills

Saudi authorities in the Jeddah region have thwarted an attempt to smuggle more than 12.7 million amphetamine pills, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday.

Col. Marwan Al-Hazmi, official spokesman for the General Directorate of Border Guard, said: “The security monitoring of drug smuggling and promotion networks resulted in the seizure of 12,729,000 amphetamine tablets concealed in a pomegranate shipment at Jeddah Islamic Port.”

The drug bust, which was coordinated with the Zakat, Tax, and Customs Authority, resulted in the arrest of four expats, two Egyptians, one Syrian, and one Yemeni.