Two Asian men get 10 years’ jail for selling drugs

TDT | Manama

The First High Criminal Court yesterday sentenced two Asian men to 10 years’ imprisonment after finding them guilty of illegally selling drugs in the Kingdom. Both men, including one who remains at large, were fined BD5,000 each, deportation, and were banned from re-entering the Kingdom. They were arrested last March for the charge of illegal sale of heroin, morphine and methamphetamine.

Secret informants tipped off the Anti-Narcotics Directorate in the Interior Ministry about the defendants’ illegal activities. An ambush was set up after an informant contacted one of the defendants requesting to buy BD50 worth of drugs from him. At the time of delivery, the defendant was caught red-handed while handing over five rolls that contained heroin and were wrapped in aluminium foil.

The defendant led the cops to his accomplice’s house, where he wasn’t found, but a bag containing an amount worth BD2,000 in different currency notes was discovered in a bag of the accomplice. Investigations showed that the second defendant wires money to a third party who resides in Pakistan, and the latter directs him to areas where he can collect the substance.

Then, the second defendant would hand it over to his accomplice to peddle it, after dividing it and wrapping it in aluminium foil. They were charged with running a drug trafficking ring.