Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed said the 86 million pills were hidden in 651 doors and 432 wooden panels.Dubai Police arrested six people in the drug operation.
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have confiscated 47 million amphetamine pills which were hidden in a flour shipment, in an operation described as the biggest one-time drug smuggling attempt in terms of narcotics seized.
The pills were confiscated at a warehouse after arriving through the dry port of the capital Riyadh, the Saudi Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Wednesday.
Eight people were arrested on suspicion of smuggling the drugs, according to a spokesperson for the General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC).
Video footage posted on the minister’s X account showed the major security operation with officers tracking five shipping containers where the pills were hidden.
Officers were seen dissembling the doors and panels after seizing the containers and arresting the suspects.
“The UAE will take firm action against anyone who thinks of threatening the society’s safety and stability,” wrote bin Zayed on X.
Captagon is mainly used by young men across the Middle East. The money from the illegal sales is either used to produce more narcotics, or in organized crime and terrorism.
More than six million Captagon tablets hidden in sweets, citrus, and nuts were seized in an operation carried out in coordination with Oman police, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported, citing Marwan Al-Hazimi, spokesperson for the General Directorate of Narcotics Control.
