'Customs': Two Drug Smuggling Attempts Foiled at Kuwait Airport
Two attempts to smuggle marijuana, heroin, and hashish foiled at Kuwait International Airport
Translated by Qiyas from السياسة — Original source
The seizures included marijuana, heroin, and hashish.
Inspectors from the General Administration of Customs at Kuwait International Airport foiled two attempts to smuggle narcotics through the T4 and T5 halls, seizing quantities of marijuana, heroin, and hashish from passengers.
In a statement, Customs said that airport inspectors suspected a female passenger arriving from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and subjected her to inspection procedures in the T4 hall, where they found in her possession 564 bags containing the narcotic marijuana, packaged and prepared for sale, with a total weight of 1.763 kilograms.
It added that the passenger is a Bangladeshi national working as a domestic worker.
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In another seizure in the T5 hall, inspectors apprehended an Indian national passenger and found in his possession seven envelopes containing powder suspected to be the narcotic heroin, with a total weight of two grams, in addition to a piece of narcotic hashish weighing eight grams.
The Administration confirmed that the necessary legal measures were taken and seizure reports were prepared, paving the way for referring the passengers and the seized items to the General Administration for Combating Narcotics and Alcohol.
