An Egyptian clerk allegedly possessed 440 tablets of the controlled tramadol medicine for promotion purpose, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.
HKA, 40, is also accused of taking tramadol and hashish. The Prosecution asked to apply the stiffest penalty against him.
First Lieutenant Ali Abbas testified that he was assigned by the Anti-Narcotics General Administration to arrest the accused based on reliable information about him taking and promoting tramadol. On June 15, he moved with a squad to the same location that the man used to sell the tablets. At 12.45am, the accused was seen getting down from a car driven by another person holding a sac. He was arrested and searched and in the sac police confiscated 240 tablets.
The accused confessed to possessing drugs and in his car police confiscated a sac which contained other 200 tablets.
The accused urine test proved positive to tramadol and hashish components.
Dr Faud Ali, from Criminal Evidences Department at Dubai Police, testified that tramadol is a medicine that is a controlled medicine and prescribed only in certain cases as its misuse could cause addiction since it works similarly to morphine. Excessive dose of tramadol poisons the body and causes death.