Defendants charged with attempting to smuggle 1 million banned pills at airport
Cairo: A Kuwaiti court has sentenced two policemen and a customs inspector to 10 years in prison each for attempting to smuggle drugs.
The country’s Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of the three, including a firefighting officer, on attempting to smuggle 1 million banned Lyrica pills at Kuwait Airport.
The defendants had been arrested by the Kuwaiti anti-drug police after receiving information that they were smuggling the substance in seven suitcases, Al Qabas newspaper reported without specifying the date of the arrests.
In recent months, Kuwaiti authorities have announced foiling several bids to smuggle drugs into the country.
Earlier this month, a shipment arriving at Kuwait’s Shuwaikh Port was found out to have contained 110kg of hashish that had been secretly hidden inside marble slabs.
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