Over 3 tonnes of hashish seized in fruit and vegetable shipment at Nuweiba
Egyptian security forces seized more than three tonnes of hashish concealed in fruit and vegetable shipments at the port of Nuweiba in January 2015. The Interior Ministry said drug-control and port-security officers had tracked a gang planning to bring the shipment in by sea and arrested the perpetrators.
Egyptian security forces stopped what the Interior Ministry called one of the largest ever hashish smuggling operations at the port of Nuweiba, where the drug was brought into the country as contraband in fruit and vegetable shipments.[1]The ministry said the operation came from coordinated work by the General Directorate for Drug Control and port security officials, who had followed and monitored a hashish smuggling gang planning to bring a large shipment across the sea to Nuweiba.[1]
The officers tracked down and arrested the perpetrators and seized the consignment of more than three tonnes of hashish, with legal action to follow.[1]
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