Dubai: Three truck drivers have been accused of possessing nearly 6.9 kilograms of different kinds of drugs that they were planning to export to Kuwait.

Acting upon an informant’s tipoff, drug enforcement officers were said to have summoned the three Pakistani truck drivers, aged between 24 and 33, to the customs office when they reached Al Ghuwaifat border checkpoint and were apprehended.

Upon searching their trucks, several pouches of drugs and mind-altering substances were found hidden in the trucks waiting to cross the border into Saudi Arabia.

Anti-narcotic prosecutors accused the suspects of possessing nearly 3kg of heroin and 3.9kg of methamphetamine pills for promotional purposes. Two of them were also charged with consuming hashish.

One of the suspects, aged 33, pleaded guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Thursday.

The other two suspects pleaded denied the charges of having possessed the banned substances for promotion.

Meanwhile, the suspects who are charged with consuming hashish told presiding judge Urfan Omar that they did so in Saudi Arabia.

An anti-narcotics police major told prosecutors that the suspects were apprehended in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Police at Al Ghuwaifat border point. “We searched the drivers but did not find any banned substances on them. When we asked them if they had kept any drugs in the trucks, they admitted and showed us where the drugs were hidden … one of them had hidden three pouches of methamphetamine pills in a pocket on the backside of the truck. after a special scanning device detected drugs in another truck, more drugs were found hidden in a secret pocket in the driver’s cabin. One of the seized bags contained nearly 3kg of heroin.

“During questioning, one of them claimed that he had collected the drugs from a Pakistani man in Ras Al Khor area and then he stacked them in his truck in order to smuggle them into Kuwait via Saudi Arabia. He also claimed that he was supposed to smuggle the drugs into Saudi Arabia for Dh10,000,” he testified to prosecutors.

The trial continues.