JEDDAH: Customs authorities at Al-Haditha border point have foiled an attempt to smuggle nearly one million captagon capsules.

One of the passengers arriving at the border point tried to hide the capsules in street lane dividers but the vigilant customs department officials detected it.

A total of 956,648 capsules were wrapped in plastic bags and placed secretly in the consignment, Director General of Al-Haditha Customs Point Ibrahim Al-Inizi said.

Smugglers try to use consignments sent to the Kingdom to bring in banned items, bt the Customs staff at land, air and sea points are always alert, the official added.