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30 March 2024

Dubai Police helps foreign navies seize Dh500 million worth of drugs on the high seas

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By Mohammad El Sadafy

Dubai Police has helped the international coalition of naval forces to make a major seizure of narcotic drugs worth over Dh500 million on the high seas of the Indian Ocean.

Speaking at a news conference in Dubai on Monday, Major General Khamis Mattar Balmazina, Deputy Commander of Dubai Police, said the drugs were seized from a vessel 360km from the coast of Somalia.

350 kg of hashish and 500kg of amphetamines were seized and 10 people arrested.

Maj. Gen. Balmazina said Dubai Police had received information that a fishing vessel had left a port in Pakistan with a large quantity of drugs and that it is on its way to Djibouti. The police also had information that the fishing craft was planned to meet another vessel at a specific location on the high seas in the Indian Ocean to transfer the cargo.

Dubai Police passed on this information to the international coalition of naval forces in the area which located and raided the vessel carrying the drugs which were found hidden behind the engines.

Major General Abdul Jalil Mahdi said the UAE is a member of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988, obliging it to extend the maximum cooperation possible to prevent drug smuggling across the seas.

Dubai Police has received letters of thanks and appreciation from the operational commanders of the naval forces of the international coalition.

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