Visitors caught with 192kg amphetamine pills

dubai — Two men on visit visas, charged with possessing of 192kg of amphetamine pills for peddling, appeared in the Court of First Instance on Monday.

The two Saudi men denied the charges. One of them, aged 31, admitted a charge of using drugs but claimed it was in his country.

The other defendant, aged 26, denied giving other suspects — who have been referred to the Court of Misdemeanors — five of the drug tablets to try out as a sample.

The arrest was made on December 5 last year. A police major of the anti-narcotics division of the Dubai Police said they received reliable information that the 26-yearold accused possessed a large quantity of drugs and was a member of an international gang.

“After 5pm on December 5, 2016, we learned he was in Abu Hail area outside a café. We followed him till Al Jafiliya, where he parked his car in a sandy yard behind the metro station. He was joined by his accomplice. We raided their cars and found five bags loaded with tablets in the accused’s car. He claimed he picked up the drugs from an unknown person in Abu Hail upon the instructions of a man in Saudi Arabia. He was to keep the tablets with him and wait for that man to tell him when to deliver some of them. He was to get paid SR900,000 for the job.”

The anti-narcotics police arrested the other men in a sting operation, the official said.