Kuwait busts 5-member drug trafficking network


By Yin Ke
  • World
  • Monday, 26 Aug 2024

KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Kuwait's Interior Ministry announced on Sunday it busted an international drug trafficking network and seized 60 kg of marijuana and hashish valued at some 750,000 Kuwaiti dinars (2.45 million U.S. dollars).

In a statement posted on social media platform X, the ministry said that the General Directorate for Drug Control's International Control Division successfully dismantled the network, which was smuggling drugs from a European country into Kuwait through Kuwait International Airport.

The network consists of five individuals, including two employees of Kuwait's General Administration of Customs, who "abused their positions to facilitate the smuggling process," according to the statement.

All suspects and the seized drugs have been handed over to the Drug Prosecution Office for further legal action, it added.

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