Saudi: ZATCA thwarts 3 attempts to smuggle 18kg+ of ‘Shabu’
The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) confirmed on Friday that it had thwarted 3 attempts to smuggle more than 18 kilograms of methamphetamine (Shabu).
ZATCA said that the methamphetamine (Shabu) was found hidden in consignments with people came to the Kingdom through the ports of Al-Bat’haa and the Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport in Madinah.
The smuggling of about 6.9 kilograms of Shabu was thwarted in the first attempt hidden in the luggage of a person arriving in the Kingdom at the Madinah Airport; in the second smuggling attempt, it found 1.7 kilograms of Shabu hidden around the body of a passenger at Al-Bat’haa; in the third attempt, it thwarted an attempt to smuggle 10.114 kilograms of Shabu hidden in a truck disguised as a ceramic consignment, hidden inside tissue boxes in a truck cabin at Al-Bat’haa port.
ZATCA arrested 3 people who tried to smuggle this quantity.
