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A man has been arrested for attempting to smuggle 4.5 million Captagon pills into the UAE inside tins of green beans. Taher Gharib Al-Dhaheri, head of anti-narcotics at Abu Dhabi Police, said the authorities received a tipoff about the…
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Iranian authorities have seized a vessel carrying 90,000 liters of smuggled fuel in the waters around Kish Island in the Gulf, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. The captain and five other crew members were issued with…
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Swiss customs authorities said Tuesday they had discovered a nearly 700-year-old antique Japanese samurai sword during a routine vehicle search, after it was smuggled into the country. The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security…
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Iranian authorities have seized a vessel carrying 106,500 liters of smuggled fuel and its nine crew members have been arrested, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday. “On the orders of the Qeshm Prosecutor, the officers…
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The US has confiscated more than 600,000 barrels of smuggled Iranian crude oil from a tanker off the coast of Greece in a new wave of sanctions enforcement. The cargo of oil was pumped off the tanker into another vessel on Thursday and…
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Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior has seized an Iranian ship carrying 240 tons of smuggled diesel, a report by Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV said Saturday. The ministry said it has seized the ship in territorial waters and has arrested its crew…
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Iranian authorities seized a foreign ship attempting to smuggle fuel out of the country and detained its crew, state news agency IRNA said on Wednesday. Iran, which has some of the world’s cheapest fuel prices due to heavy subsidies and…
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Authorities arrested five people for attempting to distribute a large quantity of amphetamine pills and other tablets in western Saudi Arabia. Maj. Mohammed Al-Nujaidi, spokesman of the General Directorate of Narcotics Control, said the…
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The US Navy announced Sunday it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. The British royal navy said it confiscated 1,041 kilograms (2,295 pounds) of…
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The Giant Brigades fighting the Houthis in Yemen have discovered a large quantity of mines and explosive devices hidden by the militia in aid boxes in Harib, Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday. The Houthi militia left the boxes, used…
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