Canada: Halifax sleuths seize 95 kg opium being smuggled from UAE
The Community News/Toronto
Foiling another attempt at smuggling banned contraband from other countries, Canadian border police at Halifax seized 95 kg opium from Nova Scotia Port that was being smuggled from UAE.
The agency said it is committed to keep its residents safe from illicit drugs and in such an operation, 95 kg opium was on Saturday seized from a shipping container.
The Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) said its ‘officers at the Halifax Container Examination Facility completed an examination of a shipping container’.
The sleuths used detection tools and found ‘over 900 packages of suspected opium concealed within a single shipping container arriving from the United Arab Emirates’.
‘The total weight of the suspected narcotics was over 95 kilograms. After undergoing laboratory testing, the narcotics were confirmed to be opium’, CBSA said in a statement.
The seized drugs are now being transferred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for further investigation.
The statement asserted the CBSA and RCMP collaboration to curb illegal drug trade and organised crime, and keep Canadian communities safe from their ill-effects.
