Dubai police in the UAE have thwarted the smuggling of more than one million Captagon pills, with a value of more than 58 million dirhams (more than 16 million dollars).
The Emirates News Agency said that the General Department of Anti-Narcotics in the Dubai Police had thwarted, in the operation it described as qualitative, and called it “Operation 66”, the smuggling of one million and 160 thousand and 500 tablets of the drug Captagon, with a value of 58 million and 25 thousand dirhams.
The agency stated that the police arrested four defendants, “all of whom are of the same Arab nationality, after careful follow-up and monitoring by the anti-drug men in a qualitative operation called “Operation 66”, during which they revealed the defendants’ attempt to bring narcotic pills into the country through a refrigerator containing boxes mixed with real lemon fruit. And the last one is “plastic” and stuffed with Captagon tablets.
The agency quoted the Director of the General Administration of Narcotics Control, Eid Muhammad Hareb, that the refrigerator contained 3,840 boxes of lemons, 66 of which contained plastic lemons stuffed with Captagon tablets and mixed with natural fruits in an attempt by the gang to camouflage and introduce narcotics into the country.