Ministry of Interior Spokesman: Smuggling of Huge Quantity of Narcotics foiled

Riyadh, Jan 10, 2010, SPA -- The Spokesman of Ministry of Interior announced
today that pre- emptive follow up of organized crime networks used to smuggle
narcotics into the Kingdom, has successfully culminated in preventing an
operation of smuggling 8,351,087 tablets, priced at SR
292, 287,730, to be delivered to 6 clients who were arrested, including 3 Saudi
nationals and 3 Non-Saudis.

In line with the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, and the Crown Prince, the Ministry of Interior has been
keen to take any preventive measures against obnoxious machinations of
corruption, targeting the Kingdom by the threat of narcotics and to punish the
culprits.

On the other hand, Turkey has managed to carry out successfully, a large police
operation to check manufacturers, grace to information forwarded by the Saudi
Ministry of Interior, in line with their mutual co-ordination.
On the other hand, the information provided by the Ministry of Interior to
Turkey has contributed to implementation of the biggest security operation in
its history against the manufacturers of Captagon which has led to the seizure
of more than 30 tons of material, enough to manufacture more than 200 million
Captagon tablets estimated at market value of $ 1.6 billion.
-- SPA