Kuwaiti And Iraqi Drone Smugglers Jail Upheld

An Iraqi and a Kuwaiti, in absentia, were sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labor for smuggling psychotropic substances into Kuwait via the Abdally border using a drone, the first of its kind in Kuwait. The Court of Cassation upheld that decision.

Case files indicate that officers from the Drug Control General Department (DCGD) in the Ministry of Interior arrested a citizen who smuggled drugs into the country — four kilograms of amphetamine and one kilogram of hashish.

The accused used a drone to smuggle these illegal substances from Iraq. During investigation, the citizen admitted that he had been smuggling drugs through the unmanned plane across the border for some time. He disclosed that his friends in Iraq communicated with him by telephone and they plan the smuggling operation.

He usually camps at the border, then he sends the drone to the Iraqi side, where his partners put the drugs on it, then flies it back within 20 minutes. After receiving the drugs, he returns home to pack them for distribution the next day. 

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