A smuggler tried to carry nearly 48,000 cans of beers disguised as
Pepsi cans into Saudi Arabia over the Al Batha border crossing with the
UAE, reported MBC.net.
The attempt was
caught and the person apprehended after customs officers detected the
latest scam into the exporting beers in into Saudi Arabia, where alcohol
is banned.
“A truck carrying what first seemed to be normal cans of the soft
drink Pepsi was stopped and after the standard process of searching the
products, it became clear that the alcoholic beers were covered with
Pepsi’s sticker logos,” said Al Batha border General Manager Abdulrahman
al-Mahna.
Al-Mahna also added that the
latest attempt is one of many new innovative ways smugglers are thinking
of but that his men “are always ready and alert to catch” the
extraordinary efforts into hiding contraband into Saudi Arabia.
The story quickly went viral online, being covered in many local newspapers and online news websites.
(Al Arabiya)
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