Liquor, drug peddlers held

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‘Contraband hidden in cable rolls’

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 13: The General Department of Public Relations and Security Media Department of the Ministry of Interior stated a kilogram of cannabis and 2,754 bottles of wine, worth 200,000 dinars have been seized by the customs authorities, reports Al-Anba daily. In this connection personnel from the Criminal Security Sector of the Directorate-General of Drugs Control have arrested 5 suspects who were smuggling the contraband into the country from a European country.

The arrest came after the security authorities received confidential information that a bedoun and a Kuwaiti citizen were smuggling into the country alcohol from an unidentified European country following which the security authorities got a search and arrest warrant issued by the Public Prosecution and caught the two men red-handed and later took into custody three other residents of Arab nationality who facilitated the illegal trade. The contraband was hidden in a warehouse in Amghara inside reels of cables. The officers also found one kilo of cannabis with one of the suspects. During interrogation they have admitted to trafficking in booze and drugs.

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