Sentence4 March 2026verifiedCET-5T2J7E

A lawyer gets life for hashish flown from London

The Criminal Court sentenced a well-known lawyer and a Kuwaiti fugitive in London to life for trafficking hashish and psychotropic substances sent by air cargo. A young woman and another Kuwaiti received seven years each. The case showed that air cargo from Europe, not only Gulf sea routes, supplies the market.

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Famous lawyer gets life for London-to-Kuwait drug smuggling. Arab Times. Report, 4 March 2026, naming the sentences and the air-cargo route.

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