LONDON: Jordanian authorities on Monday announced that they had foiled a major drug smuggling operation, seizing 1.2 million illicit pills concealed in a road roller and arresting 10 suspects in a series of raids northeast of the capital, Amman.
The anti-narcotics department had been monitoring the drug network for two months after receiving intelligence regarding a planned cross-border shipment, according to the Petra news agency.
They learnt that the suspects were stockpiling narcotics in a warehouse in Al-Rusaifa, a city in the Zarqa Governorate northeast of Amman, concealing the pills in a secret compartment built into a heavy vehicle.
On Sunday, anti-narcotics units raided a warehouse and several other locations in Al-Rusaifa, rounding up all suspects and seizing the hidden drugs, with a street value of millions of US dollars, Petra added.
