The Security Spokesman of the Ministry of Interior stated that vigilance of anti-narcotics men and their following of all the leads locating dens of inequity and their criminal activities in narcotics and money laundering have led to the following: 1- Uncovering of a local network connected to international bodies in the business of drug trafficking i.e. the narcotic Captagon tablets to Saudi Arabia and selling them there. The implicated in its criminal activities were arrested in several Saudi regions, totaling 19 persons; 7 of whom are Saudis and 12 of Arab nationalities. 2,000,000 tablets of narcotic captagon were found in their possession, ready for circulation among the youth of the community, in addition to cash amounts of SR 5,880,000 and 13 vehicles. Preliminary investigations revealed that the above-mentioned deposited and transferred large amounts of money totaling SR 406,000,000 in local and foreign accounts, in addition to exporting a large number of cars, of which 23 were seized while prepared to be exported abroad. --More
