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UAE: Drug gang busted

Abu Dhabi Police have busted an international gang of drug peddlers and foiled its attempt to smuggle 521kg of hashish to a neighbouring Gulf country.

“The Anti-Narcotics Section of the Abu Dhabi Police was tipped off that a huge quantity of hashish had been stashed in wooden planks placed inside a container to be shipped from an Asian country to a GCC country via the UAE,” Lt. Col. Ali Mohammed Al Shamsi, head of the Anti-Narcotics Section at the General Department for Security and Checkposts Affairs, disclosed.

A task force was set up under the supervision of Brigadier Mattar Hamad Al Mohiri, director general of Security and Checkposts Affairs, and a plan was chalked out, in coordination with the seaport authorities, to nab the criminals.

As per the plan, the police and seaport personnel ensured that the ship sailed with the consignment to the targeted destination, and no raids would be carried out until the vessel anchored at the port of call, Al Shamsi said.

The gangsters were arrested soon after the vessel anchored and the contraband was seized. Those held comprised two Asians and an Arab citizen.

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