Dubai: Mohammed Yassin
An Arab traveler brought 12 electronic cigarette filters containing drugs and other psychotropic substances inside a package of bath soap in his bag. The Dubai Criminal Court found him guilty and sentenced him to 10 years in prison, confiscating the seized items, fining him 100,000 dirhams, and deporting him from the country after serving his sentence.
The events of the case took place last September when a customs inspector at Dubai Airport became suspicious of the bag of an Arab traveler (the accused) coming from North America. The inspector reported that he inquired from the traveler about the contents of the bag and whether he was in possession of any narcotic substances. The accused denied that he had any prohibited items.
The inspector continued that he saw abnormal density in the defendant’s bag, and by examining inside a bottle of bath soap after passing it through the baggage screening device, he found materials suspected to be professionally hidden drugs. The accused denied that the seized materials were narcotic substances, so the seized items were transferred to the forensic laboratory and the airport police were informed of the incident, where The accused was arrested.
The Dubai Police Criminal Laboratory report stated that the seized materials were various drugs inside a plastic bag, in addition to oil for narcotic substances inside 12 electronic cigarette filters. During the investigations, the accused denied what was charged to him and claimed that he was not aware of the presence of the narcotic substance in his bag.
He admitted that the drugs belonged to him and that he had put them in his bag by mistake, as the drugs were inside a bottle of shampoo that he used in his home in the country he was coming from before coming to Dubai Airport, and he was hiding them because his family was in the house and they were not aware that he was using narcotic substances, and during his stay Preparing his travel bag, he randomly inserted a bottle of shampoo containing these substances without knowing that he had them or intending to bring them into the country.
The merits of the court’s ruling stated that the defendant’s claim to the Public Prosecution’s investigations that he was not aware of the presence of the narcotic substance seized in his luggage while entering the country does not exempt him from the charge of possessing and bringing drugs. What was found in his luggage as a narcotic or psychotropic substance is considered to be possessed or in possession of it. The court found him guilty and ruled in its aforementioned ruling. .
2024-01-06 15:54:57
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