Ajman police thwart drug smuggling at a value of 25 million dirhams

The Drug Control Department of the General Command of Ajman Police, in cooperation and coordination with the Federal Drug Control Authority, managed to arrest three persons of Arab nationality who smuggled a large amount of psychotropic substances amounting to 2.5 million narcotic pills of Captagon tablets valued at about 25 million AED.

This came during a press conference held by Ajman Police to announce the details of the case headed by His Excellency Major General Sheikh Sultan bin Abdullah Al-Nuaimi, Commander in Chief of Ajman Police, in the presence of His Excellency Brigadier Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al Owais, Deputy Director of the General Department of Narcotics Control at the Ministry of Interior, and Lt. Col. Muhammad Majid Al-Nuaimi, Deputy Director of the Department Fighting drugs in Ajman Police.

His Excellency Major General Sheikh Sultan bin Abdullah Al-Nuaimi said that the case was called "narcotic mills" and aimed at thwarting the promotion and smuggling of two and a half million narcotic tablets of 25 million dirhams, which was concealed in a technical and professional manner within the feed grinding machines and an electric generator, brought from countries Adjoining it and entering it through one of the state's ports to be stored in warehouses in Al-Jarf Industrial Area, Ajman.

His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of Ajman Police stated that the operation was carried out in close coordination and with great professionalism between the control men of the Drug Administration of the Ajman Police and the General Department of Federal Drug Control, after receiving confirmed information from reliable sources of the police with the intention of persons of Arab nationality smuggling large quantities of drugs into the state for re-export to Neighboring countries, so the first shipment of drugs was monitored and monitored since entering the port and transported by road by truck until it reached the emirate of Ajman, which is a 40 mill for feed grinding packed with Captagon tablets, where the gang members received the shipment and stored it In the Al-Jarf industrial area, and after a while, the second shipment of the drugs was received and packed into generators.

After taking the necessary legal measures and in coordination with the Federal Drug Control Administration, the warehouse was raided with the assistance of police police dogs that proved its success in determining the location of storing narcotic substances, and one of the accused was caught red-handed while trying to cut the machines to open them and extract the narcotic materials that were packed into the machines, as was the The other suspects were arrested in the emirate’s workplace.

For his part, His Excellency Brigadier Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al Owais, Deputy Director of the General Department of Narcotics Control at the Ministry of Interior praised the efficiency and professionalism of the police officers that contributed to controlling drugs through follow-up and monitoring of gang members, noting that the police are working hard to protect society and protect neighboring countries from the scourge of drugs that destroy Young people and that it is able to uncover all innovative methods of promoters to introduce drugs into the country with a view to distributing or exporting them again outside the country, stressing that the Emirates is strengthening its cooperation and coordination on an ongoing basis with neighboring countries to limit the circulation and smuggling of any narcotic substances in the country. Area.

In the same context, Lt. Col. Mohammed Majid Al-Nuaimi, Deputy Director of the Anti-Narcotics Department of Ajman Police stressed that the coordination that took place between Ajman Police and the Narcotics Control Department contributed to the success of the operation, setting the zero hour and storming the warehouse during the presence of one of the accused, indicating that legal procedures have been completed and the case referred to the prosecution The public in preparation for submitting it to the court to obtain the accused.