DUBAI, Sep 30 (Gulf Today): Law enforcement officers forwarded their testimonies to prosecution against four members of an intercontinental gang involved in drug smuggling on Thursday.

The Dubai Police had earlier arrested the four members of the gang.  Three of them are Pakistanis, SIMR, 49 (a woman), MNSM, 36 and QRMA, 29. One of them is an Indian, IAM, 35.  They were arrested on the charges of illegal trafficking of heroin.

According to criminal investigation sources, 10 plastic bags containing 10.2 kilogrammes of heroin, 1,096 capsules and another 52.43 gramme of the drug wrapped in newspapers were seized.

The fourth suspect IAM is held accountable for drug addiction after medical uric tests revealed the existence of narcotic substances.

One police official, who led the operation, AARH from the Department of Anti-Narcotics, said that the raid was carried out on Oct.10 last year.

The police searched their house located at Al Bashir for Car Renting in Dubai.

The official said that the suspects confessed to importing drugs from Pakistan with the help of their Pakistani accomplices.

The mastermind reportedly believed to have included an African, FU, staying at Lotus Hotel.

The suspects had also hidden some quantity of the drug in their bowels.

They had been involved in the smuggling for more than ten years. The drugs were being smuggled from Pakistan to destination markets in Africa and China.  They used plastic bags with forged labels of well-known supermarkets as well as capsules and tennis balls to hide the drug.  

The female suspect SIMR said to the police that they had been involved in smuggling to earn money. She confessed to the cops that she had spent five years in drug dealing.

In 2010, the Department of Anti-Narcotics had registered a 30 per cent decline in drug-related cases in the emirate. Thanks to the awareness campaigns and amended Federal Laws regarding drug crimes.

A drug user is not prosecuted if he or she voluntarily approaches authorities for treatment.

Other cases

The Dubai public prosecution referred on Thursday four other suspects also to the Criminal Court.

The prosecution charged MAA, an Arab official from a Gulf country with possessing and bringing heroin and diazepam. The cops impounded a plastic-box containing heroin in his car while passing through Hatta border crossing.

The prosecution charged an Asian blacksmith, known as SHSS, with owning ten plastic bags of opium for consumption. The prosecution demanded a jail term of for four years to the suspect, followed by deportation.

The prosecution charged a forty-year-old African visitor in the fourth case with bringing and owning 50 capsules of heroin, which she concealed in her stomach.

A customs inspector discovered the drug at the Dubai International Airport.

In the fifth case, the prosecution charged an Arab accountant with consuming hashish. The police confiscated a piece of hashish in his wardrobe.