Dubai Police bust international drug gang

Dubai Police bust an international drug smuggling gang of five people and confiscated about 60 kilograms of drugs worth Dh600,000.

The general department of Anti-Narcotics, Dubai Police, arrested two members of the gang, both GCC nationals, and alerted Interpol to arrest the others, believed to be Asians.

Major-General Abdul Jalil Mahdhi Al Asmawi, Director-General, Department of Anti-Narcotics, said during a press conference held on Monday that the operation is dubbed 'the eagerness of poet'.

Al Asmawi said one of the gang members is a poet and added that the arrest of two is a major blow to drug dealers and traffickers not only in the UAE but also in the region. It was the excellent teamwork by Dubai Police and Anti-Narcotics Department that led to the successful capture of the two peddlers.

He said the department received an information about a GCC national with a criminal past who was into drugs and was peddling drugs in the emirate.

Officials, thereafter, laid an elaborate trap and arrested him on November 20.

Armed with the information obtained from him, the team in coordination with the Anti-Narcotic Departments in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Sharjah and Ajman - under the umbrella of the Interior Ministry - arrested the second accused, a GCC national, in Al Ain on December 4. He was instrumental in smuggling large quantities of hashish, heroin and concealing them in different areas in Sharjah and Ajman.

This second accused was working for an Asian dealer, GGZ, living abroad, for Dh15,000.

Major Saeed Taweer, Director, International Section of Combating Narcotics of Dubai Police, said: Police confiscated 57kgs of hashish in Al Dhaid area in Sharjah and three kgs of heroin in a car parked near Safeer Mall in Ajman. The total value of these drugs is more than Dh600,000, he added.

Major Saeed bin Taweer said all defendants have criminal records. One of the members was earlier arrested in Saudi Arabia and sentenced to imprisonment and lashing.

The other member had earlier served jail term in Oman. The third person was arrested in Dubai and deported after being convicted of drug trafficking but continues to do the same from abroad.
 

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