DUBAI — Saudi authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle more than 5 million amphetamine tablets into the country in a shipment of stones through a Jeddah seaport Monday.
The Saudi Ministry of Interior’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) made the announcement, the latest in a series of nearly weekly drug busts in the kingdom for transporting, selling and promoting drug use.
What happened: Saudi Arabia’s GDNC and customs authority found 5,280,000 pills of fenethyllin, an amphetamine marketed under the brand name Captagon, concealed within a shipment of stones and building supplies, according to a Monday tweet from both government agencies.
Six people were arrested while receiving the shipment in Riyadh and Jeddah. They included one citizen each from Syria, Sudan and Saudi Arabia along with three others whose nationalities were not identified.
