Manama: Customs at Kuwait airport have apprehended a Bangladeshi passenger who tried to smuggle in 2,000 pills in his shoes.
The passenger had curved his shoes to hide the drugs and take them into Kuwait, Salman Al Fahad, the head of the customs, said.
The shoe smuggling attempt was done in such a way that discovering the drugs was very difficult, he added, local news site Al Aan reported on Thursday,
The suspect was referred t the competent authorities for investigation.
Kuwaiti authorities have been engaged in aggressive campaigns against the use and sale of drugs in the northern Arabian Gulf country.
Local media often carry reports of drugs seizure in a clear indication of the formidable fight the local authorities have waged against traffickers who increasingly resort to new ruses to avoid being caught.
In 2012, an Arab expatriate was arrested for attempting to smuggle into Kuwait a cocktail of drugs that included one kilo of hashish, two opium joints and 1,000 Tramadol tablets hidden inside frozen ducks and pigeons he brought from his home country.
The smuggler was arrested after officers noted that he behaved suspiciously, as he was checking out of the airport, prompting them to search his luggage thoroughly. The man reportedly worked in a restaurant.
In June, two men were arrested following the seizure of 100 kilograms of hashish worth an estimated 2 million Kuwait dinars (Dh25 million).
The two men, from an Arab country, confessed that they were dealing in the drugs on behalf of a Kuwaiti national who was in Jordan.
Within the same week, a Pakistani national was arrested for possessing 25 sachets of heroin and of a Kuwaiti woman was held for selling drugs to customers at a café in the posh Salmiya area in the capital, Kuwait City.
The woman was arrested after she sold hashish to a police agent. Cigarettes filled with hashish and narcotic pills were seized from the woman, believed to be in her 40s.
