Saudi authorities thwarted an attempt to smuggle a large amount of drugs through the port in Jeddah in the west of the country.

A spokesman for the Directorate-General for Drug Control, Major Muhammad Al-Najidi, said that as a result of the proactive security surveillance, a criminal plan to smuggle more than 5 million amphetamine pills into grape containers through the port of Jeddah was thwarted.

Al-Nujaidi explained that the operation was carried out "in coordination with the Tax and Customs Authority," and "its recipients were arrested in the city of Riyadh and Jeddah, and are residents with Jordanian citizenship, and residents of Syrian citizenship."

He stressed that they were "arrested and prosecuted".

A few days ago, the Saudi Tax and Customs Authority announced at the Hadith port on the border with Jordan that it "thwarted an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of captagon bullets, equivalent to more than 5.2 million crushed bullets seized."

The authority explained that the quantity seized "was hidden in a shipment received at the port, using an unprecedented smuggling method at the level of customs ports".