Customs officials foiled an attempt to smuggle 6,500 bottles of foreign liquor from a Gulf country at Shuwaikh Port. Officials were tipped about the shipment labeled as containing housewares and followed the movement of the shipment and the suspect container was put under surveillance.
A Pakistani national named Shahrayar Mohammad went yesterday to receive the container and was arrested, in addition to another man who was with him, named Mohammed Mustafa Khan. When the container was unloaded, the first half of it contained household items, while the other was loaded with 500 boxes containing 6,500 liquor bottles.