KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait Drug Control General Department (DCGD) has seized half kilogram of shabu, 30 grams of heroin, 700 narcotic pills, one pistol, two riffles and a large number of bullets which are not licensed in his possession and nabbed a Kuwaiti smuggler.
In a press statement here the other day, the Interior Ministry disclosed the arresting officers also confiscated fake new Kuwaiti dinar bank notes amounting to KD1, 500; 1,800 Saudi Riyals worth of forged money; machine for forging bank notes; and KD8,000 worth of real Kuwaiti dinar bills. According to the statement, the Drug Control General Department (DCGD) received information from a secret agent that a citizen is smuggling drugs and forging currencies.
After verifying the information, the department put the suspect under surveillance while a team of officers obtained an arrest and search warrant to raid his home where the abovementioned items were found. The suspect later confessed to smuggling and trading in drugs as well as forging currencies. He said the real bank notes were his revenues from selling drugs. The necessary legal procedures were taken against him.