UAE
\nDubai police said on Thursday they have arrested four men \u201cof Arab nationality\u201d for trying to smuggle millions of dollars worth of captagon pills hidden in plastic lemons into the UAE.
\nCaptagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant manufactured mostly in Lebanon, although probably also in Iraq and Syria, and much of which is bound for Saudi Arabia.
\nThe drugs, which the official WAM news agency said had a street value of $15.8 million, were seized after a tipoff, police Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri said.
\nA total of 1,160,500 pills were seized.
\nMansouri said the illegal pills were \u201chidden in fake lemons in a shipment of lemons inside an incoming refrigerated container\u201d.
\nFour suspects living in the UAE \u2014 \u201call nationals of the same Arab country\u201d — were arrested.
\nPolice said that inside the refrigerated container were \u201c3,840 boxes of lemons, 66 of which had fake lemons containing the captagon pills\u201d.
\nThey released a video of the find, showing boxes with markings indicating their origin was Lebanon. Lebanon is often criticised by Gulf countries for not cooperating in the war against drugs, particularly captagon.
\nIn April, Saudi Arabia announced it was suspending imports of fruit and vegetables from Lebanon after more than five million captagon pills hidden in fruit were seized.
\nAlso read: Saudi Arabia bans fresh food imports from Lebanon
\nAnd in June, more than 14 million amphetamine pills concealed between sheets of tin and originating in Lebanon were seized in the kingdom.
\nIn October, Saudi Arabia denounced Lebanon\u2019s failure to \u201cstop the export of the scourge of drugs\u201d to the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UAE Dubai police said on Thursday they have arrested four men \u201cof Arab nationality\u201d for trying to smuggle millions of dollars worth of captagon pills hidden in plastic lemons into the UAE. Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant manufactured mostly in Lebanon, although probably also in Iraq and Syria, and much of which is bound for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n