DUBAI 1 JANUARY 2022: Authorities at Dubai Customs’ Jebel Ali and Tecom Centre thwarted an attempt to smuggle 1.5 tonnes of crushed captagon. The seizure of the banned stimulant is the biggest haul of its […]
SHARJAH 30 July 2021: The Sharjah Ports, Customs and Free Zones Authority revealed that Sharjah Customs officials managed to thwart an attempt to smuggle a huge haul of drugs – about 93 kilograms of crystal […]
DUBAI 15 March 2021: Dubai Customs seized nearly three million captagon pills, which is the largest so far this year and foiled a major attempt to smuggle them into the country. Inspection officers of the […]
DUBAI 13 February 2021: The Dubai Police successfully uncovered 728 drug-related cases, arrested 1,044 suspects, and seized 1,034kg of illegal drugs over the last four months of 2020. The force also blocked 16 websites that […]
SHARJAH 16 December 2020: In an operation called ‘Lightning Force’, the Anti-Narcotics Department of Sharjah Police arrested a gang of nine persons, who attempted to sell more than a million Xanax tablets, worth more than […]
DUBAI 7 March 2020: Dubai Police announced that it had seized 1,560 kilograms of drugs and close to 14.8 million narcotic pills in 2019. Dubai Police said 2,051 drug-related cases were uncovered last year, leading […]
DUBAI 5 May 2019: Dubai Customs has announced the seizure of 5.715 million Captagon pills. According to the customs authority, the pills were hidden in a foodstuff container arriving into the emirate from an unnamed […]
DUBAI 14 January 2019: Cooperation between different customs departments and good planning have led to thwarting an attempt to smuggle large number of captagon pills at Jebel Ali & Tecom Customs Centre, just a few […]
DUBAI 30 December 2018: Dubai Customs revealed that it prevented 922 smuggling attempts, including 355 narcotics and contrabands, in the first nine months of 2018. Commenting on the results, the Director of Dubai Customs, Ahmed […]