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…
