Two get 7-year jail for smuggling drugs in to Dubai

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance on Sunday sentenced two Iranians to seven-year jail followed by deportation for smuggling and possessing drugs.

RIA, 38 and JKA were also ordered to pay Dh50,000 after serving their jail term.

According to the records, a custom officer suspected, RIA, visitor who said that he wants to stay for four days and was carrying two big luggage bags upon his arrival at Dubai International Airport on December 31, 2011.

“I suspected the passenger, who was carrying two big luggage bags and asked him how long he will stay… he answered me that he wants to stay for four days. Inspecting his bags via the screening machine we found abnormal thickness in the bottom of the bags. Searching them, crystal material was hidden in the fake bottom made in the two bags,” he testified.

RIA confessed that the bags belonged to JKA, a passenger who was with him on the same trip and asked him to help him in getting them out of the airport as he was carrying two other bags. As JKA had left the airport, RIA guided the police to his residence.

Police arrested JKA in a hotel in Naif area and brought him with his two bags to the Anti-Narcotics Department. Police found crystal material hidden in a fake bottom in his two bags. The total weight of the methamphetamine was 11.2Kgs.

The two confessed to smuggling drugs which they brought from Iran. They got the four bags from a third person and were supposed to hand them over to someone in the UAE against money that will be paid after their return to their home country.