Drugs worth $14.5 million prevented from entering Kuwait
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Hashim Sheikh
- . January 2, 2023
- . Update: January 2, 2023 6:51 pm
According to state news agency KUNA, Kuwaiti authorities have thwarted attempts to smuggle drugs worth millions of dollars into the nation.
based on the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2019 pricing report. 1.2 million Captagon tablets, 250 kg of hashish, and 104 kg of crystal meth were among the forbidden items, and their combined street value was at least $14.5 million.
The nation has been aggressive in combating the smuggling, sale, and usage of illicit drugs; traffickers have tried to enter the country via air, land, and water.
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The GCC region is regarded as a transit area and a user of illegal narcotics. Amphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, and heroin are the most commonly used drugs in Kuwait, while deaths from heroin and benzodiazepine addiction were the highest between 2015 and 2018. In terms of drug trafficking, there were 1.142 legal deportations from Kuwait between 2012 and 2017 due to drug use and trafficking.
Article 207 of the Penal Code of Kuwait, promulgated by Law Number 16 of 1969, establishes the punishment as a term of imprisonment not to exceed seven (7) years.
Every person who trades narcotic substances provides them for abuse, facilitates their abuse with or without consideration, or has them with the intent to give them to others without proving that he is authorised to do so shall be subject to a fine of not more than seven thousand dinars (7,000) or one of these two penalties.
