UAE finds $2.5m hash in animal feed
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Police in Abu Dhabi have seized than 700 kilograms of hashish with a street value of $US2 million ($2.5 million) smuggled in by two Asian nationals, Emirati police said.
The police, quoted by state news agency WAM, said the drugs were found in Mussafah, near Abu Dhabi, concealed in a consignment of animal fodder after its transfer from another member of the United Arab Emirates.
One of the suspected traffickers had been arrested while the other, the alleged head of a smuggling ring, managed to leave the UAE where he had arrived as a visitor.
In early June, Dubai police busted a four-member Asian ring which had smuggled in 41 kilograms of heroin valued at $US5.4 million.
Several foreigners in the UAE, which imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking, have been condemned to death in recent years but no such executions have been announced.
The sentences are often commuted to life in prison.
- AFP
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