DUBAI // Three men have appeared in court charged with possessing almost four million illegal amphetamine tablets.
“I have nothing to do with this your honour and I have been in jail for nearly 9 months now,” a 41-year-old from Saudi Arabia told Dubai Criminal Court.
On July 12 last year the defendant, along with two Syrians, was arrested by Dubai police’s anti-narcotics department.
“We received information that the Saudi was part of a drug trafficking gang and that he was trying to smuggle millions of tablets to Saudi Arabia. We managed to get an undercover policeman to get close to the defendants,” said a police lieutenant.
The undercover officer was asked by the three men to provide them with a car and a driver who would take the drugs out of the UAE.
The defendants were arrested in International City.
“We found some drugs in the car and the defendants confessed that there were more drugs stored in Al Ain,” said the lieutenant.
“The Saudi confessed to me that he was going to be a profit of 30 million Saudi Riyals.”
The defendants denied possessing drugs with the intention to sell. The next hearing will be on February 16.
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