KUWAIT CITY: Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department have arrested an unidentified trailer truck driver for attempting to smuggle into the country 6,000 bottles of alcohol worth KD 500,000 here the other day.
A security source said police acting on a tip-off put the trailer truck, belonging to a general trading and contracting company, under surveillance and followed it until it was parked in an open area in Farwaniya. The security authorities moved in and took the driver into custody after he moved the truck in front of a building. Without giving details, the security authorities said the shipment came from an unidentified GCC state. Police are conducting investigations to find the owner of the cargo.
