JEDDAH: Saudi authorities have seized over four million narcotic pills that were hidden in a number of shipments coming through the northernwestern port of Duba, a customs official said on Saturday.
Duba Port Customs director Ali Al-Otuwi said over one million Captagon tablets were found in an onion consignment in a truck on a ferry.
The pills were concealed in the middle of onion bags, Al-Otowi told the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Around 1.3 million Captagon tablets were found inside the wooden boards shipped in another truck. The smugglers packaged the pills with carbon paper and filled the spaces between them with powder to bypass X-ray machines.
Another million Captagon tablets were seized from four marble-cutting machines shipment that was in a truck. About 600,000 Captagon and nearly 18,000 tramadol tablets were seized from the back doors of the same truck.
