Dh115m worth of drugs seized in Dubai

Dh115 million worth of drugs was seized in Dubai in early October, said a top police official on Sunday.

Police said 4.6 million Captagon pills, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant, were seized in Al Aweer during a police operation in which three Arab suspects were arrested. Police are hunting for two other suspected gang members, also Arabs.

Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, Chief of Dubai Police, said on Sunday that the police operation was one of the first of its kind in the country and a major one on the global level, according to the regional office for fighting drugs and crimes in the GCC.

The haul was revealed during a press conference held at the Dubai Police headquarters by Major General Al Mazeina. He said the suspects were arrested in an operation called “Nine Balls” after the place the suspects used to meet in.

He said police received a tip-off that an Arab man who lived in Al Aweer was dealing drugs and was the head of a gang who smuggled drugs in and out of the country.