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UAE police foil bid to smuggle 1 mln Captagon pills to Saudi Arabia

Xinhua, August 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Abu Dhabi police said Saturday they have foiled an attempt by two Arab men to smuggle one million pills of illegal Captagon drug into neighboring Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state news agency WAM reported.

Abu Dhabi police said it had closely cooperated with the UAE Interior Ministry to foil the smuggling attempt.

Acting upon intelligence shared by Saudi security agencies, Abu Dhabi police monitored the movements of the two suspects between Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, said the report.

The report did not unveil the nationalities of the two Arab men arrested in the operation. Endit