Interior ministry seized drugs worth more than 2 million KD

Friday, December 9, 2022

The interior ministry personnel have seized and confiscated some 335 kilograms of hashish and one million captagon pills worth more than KD two million.

The ministry said in a statement on Friday that the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had overseen the drugs' seizure, with attendance o the Minister of Commerce and Industry Mazen Al-Nahedh and other senior officers.

It indicated that the bid to smuggle the drugs was via the sea, noting that there was also a futile attempt to traffic into the country 20 kgs of hashish via land.

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