Bid to smuggle drugs hidden in foodstuff bag foiled at Dubai Airport
- 24 Aug 2021
Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter
A 57-year-old African worker’s attempt to smuggle 1,600 grammes of Marijuana into the UAE was foiled by an alert customs officer at Dubai International Airport.
The drug was hidden in a herbal and foodstuffs bag.
Details of the case date back to April this year when a customs inspector at the Dubai Airport suspected the defendant’s bag upon his arrival at the airport.
African worker’s bag was searched and a plastic bag containing herbs and foodstuffs was found.
The foodstuff bag was sent to a lab for further examination that affirmed that the material inside was Marijuana.
The suspect was referred to the drug control department where he confessed that he received the bag from a person in his country to deliver to another man in the UAE.
The suspect was sent to jail awaiting trial.
