The police said they acted on a tipoff that an African expatriate had set up a liquor factory in a residential district in the heart of Riyadh. “When the facility was raided, he was caught with another compatriot in a sedan with a dozen 1.5-liter bottles of arak, which they were selling. One of them had a forged iqama and a forged driving license,” the police statement said. On questioning, the duo confessed to the crime, the statement added.