Coast Guard patrols have foiled the trafficking of large quantity of narcotics worth more than BD284,000, via the sea from Iran.
The Maritime Operations Centre suspected a boat in the north of Bahrain that was sailing despite the maritime ban and when it was chased by the patrols it tried to sail to the shallow water, but the security forces managed to stop it.
Two Bahrainis on the boat were held. The first suspect, Ahmed Riyadh Ali Ahmed Al Qazaz, 25, has drug-related criminal records, in which tools for narcotic use were confiscated from his car while the second suspect Sayed Hassan Majid Ashoor , 27, is the owner of the boat.
Investigation in cooperation with the Anti-narcotics Directorate revealed that the two were involved in drug trafficking cases, in which the two dumped a large quantity of narcotics from Iran in the sea that was sent to the first suspect from Iranian drug trafficker.
The Coast Guard managed, through the radar system, to find the narcotics hidden in rubber tyres in the seabed and tied with a rope. The seized narcotics are 33 kilogrammes of hashish and less than 1 kilogramme of methamphetamine.
Legal proceedings were taken and the case was referred to the Public Prosecution.

Source: Fana News