KSA, Nigeria Foil Drug Smuggling Bid by 'Hizbullah-Linked Network'
The Saudi and Nigerian interior ministries have thwarted an attempt by a network linked to Lebanon’s Hizbullah to smuggle 451,807 amphetamine tablets into Saudi Arabia, the Saudi ministry said on Thursday.
The security spokesman of the Saudi interior ministry, Colonel Talal al-Shalhoub, stated that the drug bust followed “proactive security follow-up of the activities of criminal networks that smuggle drugs into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
The spokesman added that the tablets were supposed to be smuggled into the kingdom by sea from Nigeria after arriving in the African country from Lebanon.
Noting that the pills were hidden inside mechanical equipment, Shalhoub said the shipment was seized in Nigeria in coordination with the African country’s authorities.
Source: Naharnet
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