The customs authorities of Cairo International Airport, headed by Dr. Hussein Heikal, director of the Department, succeeded in seizing two attempts to smuggle a number of cigarettes wrapped in marijuana plants and tramadol narcotic tablets in violation of the provisions of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182 of 1960, the law on practicing the profession of Pharmacy No. 127 of 1955, the law on practicing the profession of Pharmacy No. 394 of 1954, the Customs Law No. 207 of 2020 and the import and Export Law No. 118 of 1975.
During the completion of the inspection procedures for passengers arriving from the Netherlands on an EgyptAir flight from Amsterdam, Hossam El Shafei, the customs officer, suspected a foreign national passenger while trying to exit the Customs Committee gate, and by passing his bags on the X-RAY scanning device by Ahmed Abdel Alim, the customs officer, and Mahmoud Shehata, the head of the department, notes the presence of organic densities inside the bags between Clothes .
The supervising director of the movement, Georges Alphonse, assigned Basma Hosni Abdul Hamid, the customs officer, to search the passenger's bags manually, and 23 cigarettes were found, and Emad Salah Salem and Ali Mahmoud Ali, the customs officers, participated in the seizure .
The second attempt was in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration at the airport, where 21 bars of the narcotic drug Tramadol were seized with a total of 210 tablets in the possession of an Egyptian passenger arriving from Dar es Salaam on an EgyptAir flight.
Mustafa Hassan Abdul Aziz, the customs officer, and Hazim Muhammad Ali, the movement manager, performed exactly that .
Dr. Maged Moussa, head of the central administration at Cairo International Airport customs, decided to take legal measures and edit the customs control records Nos. 199 and 200 for the year 2023 .
This comes in implementation of the instructions of the head of the customs authority, Shahat ghatouri, to tighten control over customs ports and thwart all attempts at customs evasion.
Source : Money newspaper
