DUBAI: Dubai customs seized 5.4 million Captagon drug pills worth nearly Dh200 million and arrested five Arab men in joint Ajman-Dubai operation.
Ajman’s law enforcers raided the house of two Arab men after receiving information from Dubai’s police and found a quantity of those pills after searching the place.
After interrogating the two, the police stormed a warehouse used by the dealers and arrested three other Arab men after finding nearly 4.5 million pills.
“They wanted to sell the pills for Dh50 each…we foiled the operation in collaboration with Dubai’s police and not a single tablet was sold in the market,” Ajman’s police commander Brigadier Sheikh Sultan Al Nuaimi said.
In Dubai, deputy director of the counter-drug squad Colonel Khaled Al Kawari described it as one of the most successful joint anti-narcotic operations.
“It achieved major results thanks to the strong coordination between the police in the two emirates…it is this coordination that led to the arrest of those dealers,” he said.
police as saying one of those arrested had been deported from the UAE before he returned on a forged passport.
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