MoI Oversees Unsealing Of Drug, Weapon Seizures

  • 18/12/2020

Kuwait City : On Thursday, Minister of Interior Sheikh Thamer Ali Al-Sabah accompanied by the Ministry's Undersecretary Lit-Gen Esam Al-Naham oversaw the unsealing of two million bills of the narcotic Captagon, nine weapons and wine bottles, recently seized by the security personnel. In a statement, the ministry's security media and public relations department said that the seizures were hidden in an innovative way inside a truck and brought to the country. Also added that the seizure came within the efforts of joint cooperation and coordination between the Kuwaiti Ministry Of Interior's General Administration for Drug Control and the Saudi Ministry of Interior's General Directorate for Narcotics Control. The investigation revealed that there was an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of Captagons inside a truck at Wafra area. It also stated that two million bills of Captagons, ammunition and weapons and wine were found in the truck.  As per reports, the accused confessed that they brought these drugs into ,the country so as to smuggle them to neighboring states. 

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