3 men smuggle drug pills worth Dh480M into UAE

abu dhabi — Three men went on trial for smuggling 12 million captagon pills with an estimated street value of Dh480 million into the UAE. They smuggled the pills inside water tanks through a UAE port.

The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of First Instance heard that the Arab men were arrested following a tip-off. Prosecutors charged the men with smuggling, possessing and dealing drugs. The trio denied the charges in court.

Tariq Al Serkal, the lawyer representing the third defendant, said some pills that were found with the man had been given to him by his colleagues as “sexual stimulants for personal use”.

The trial was adjourned until November 26.