Police thwart attempt to smuggle 4.5m Captagon pills into UAE

ABU DHABI: A man has been arrested for attempting to smuggle 4.5 million Captagon pills into the UAE inside tins of green beans.

Taher Gharib Al-Dhaheri, head of anti-narcotics at Abu Dhabi Police, said the authorities received a tipoff about the suspect’s intentions and apprehended him following a monitoring operation.

The drugs were discovered inside tins labeled as green beans and for which the suspect had completed the necessary import paperwork, he said.