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19 March 2024

Saudi seizes 18,000 liquor bottles at border

Liquor concealed in fruit truck. (AFP)

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Saudi police at Albataha border point with the UAE seized nearly 18,000 liquor bottles concealed inside a fruit truck and arrested its Indian driver.

Police suspected the truck after screening showed the loading part had been modified and the van carries the same plate number of another truck just behind it.

Just as they arrested the Indian, the Syrian driver of the other truck jumped out and ran through the entry point and entered Ghuweifat in the UAE.

“Police said the liquor bottles originated from the UAE and were destined for Saudi Arabia…they arrested the Indian driver but could not seize the Syrian who fled across the border,” the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq said.