{"id":6620,"date":"2024-02-15T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:33:19","slug":"qatar-authorities-thwart-drug-smuggling-attempt-disguised-in-candy-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2024\/02\/15\/qatar-authorities-thwart-drug-smuggling-attempt-disguised-in-candy-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Authorities Thwart Drug Smuggling Attempt Disguised in Candy Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-The General Directorate of Drug Control in Qatar, in coordination with the General Customs Authority, managed to seize a quantity of drugs concealed in a secret manner inside a candy box when attempting to bring it into the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-sxbyg-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-sxbyg-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-5\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"806f9527-8d1f-4d48-8242-9697deb55877\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>The General Customs Authority reported on Thursday that its personnel thwarted an attempt to smuggle 2 kilograms of hashish after a customs inspector became suspicious of a passenger&#8217;s bag arriving in Qatar via Hamad International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>After manual inspection of the bag, wrapped pieces of the seized substance were found hidden inside a candy box in a secretive manner.<\/p>\n<p>A circulated video clip showed an employee displaying the seized quantity in a plastic bag, wrapped in cellophane paper, before weighing it on an electronic scale, revealing its weight to be 2 kg.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u062c\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0643_\u0642\u0637\u0631<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MOosSYZt6P\">pic.twitter.com\/MOosSYZt6P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0627\u0644\u0647\u064a\u0626\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0643 (@Qatar_Customs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Qatar_Customs\/status\/1758144877290807540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Drug smuggling into the Gulf countries<\/h4>\n<p>Drug smuggling into Gulf countries is rare, compared to other Gulf states where many shipments are intercepted monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar imposes strict penalties for possession, consumption, or trafficking of drugs, including lengthy imprisonment, hefty fines, and deportation of foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar&#8217;s drug law lists 64 substances and covers all aspects related to drugs, including prohibited substances and methods of dealing with them such as selling, buying, smuggling, importing, possessing, and trafficking. This detailed law aims to encompass all methods and tricks used by individuals involved in drug activities, leading to penalties commensurate with the crimes committed by individuals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-The General Directorate of Drug Control in Qatar, in coordination with the General Customs Authority, managed to seize a quantity of drugs concealed in a secret manner inside a candy box when attempting to bring it into the country. The General Customs Authority reported on Thursday that its personnel thwarted an attempt to smuggle 2 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2164,2165],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-candy-box","tag-qatar-authorities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Qatar Authorities Thwart Drug Smuggling Attempt Disguised in Candy Box - Watan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Qatar&#039;s vigilant authorities successfully intercept a drug smuggling attempt as hashish is concealed inside candy boxes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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She studied at the Shari 'a Scientific Institute and then at the Shari' a High School in Homs. She worked as a correspondent for the Arab Equidad newspaper in the United States of America. - New Jersey, Al-Ayam Al-Arabiya, Florida, 1990-2000, Gulf, United Arab Emirates Sharjah - Al-Ittihad Abu Dhabi - Rotana Saudi Magazine - Family Days Magazine (Syrian) Most Syrian newspapers and magazines, after moving to Jordan, followed two press and radio sessions of the community media network and a session of the Doha Center for Media Freedom in Amman and completed dozens of radio reports on the country's radio and Amman Net. I have been working as a collaborator with Zaman Al Wassal on the name \"Fars Al Rufai\" since 2013. I have an interest in writing about social issues, heritage, phenomena and various artistic subjects. I have many printed books, including: (Questions - confrontations in thought, life and creativity), \"Customs and beliefs of Homs Governorate - Syrian Writers' Commission in Damascus 2011, (images from social life in Bedouin) of Al-Rahsah Printing and Publishing House in Homs 2008 and (features and flags from Homs) of Taha Printing and Publishing House 2010. - Many written books, including: (Obad and cultural creations from Syria), (Writing Time - Listening Time - Dialogues in Thought, Life and Creativity) - printed electronically on \"eBook\", (Trades and Industries of Heritage of Homs), (Exotic Hand, Face and Tongue - Photographs from Popular Heritage s in Homs) and (Famous Homs in the 12th and 13th CentCenturies).","sameAs":["https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100004432501735","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/kh66aw"],"url":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/author\/khaled\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}