A Bahraini court sentenced two drivers to fifteen years imprisonment. Fined each BD10,000 after convicting them of participation in a drug‑importation network allegedly run by kingpins operating from abroad. Two other defendants both Indian expatriates, received one‑year sentences and BD1,000 fines for possession of drugs for use.
The High Criminal Court sentenced all four men to deportation after each had served their sentence and ordered the drugs found during the investigation to be confiscated. All four were convicted of charges of dealing in heroin, morphine and methamphetamine.
The case started when a Customs Affairs officer became suspicious of a parcel sent from Spain. The officer asked for the delivery to be placed on hold while they contacted the Anti‑Narcotics Directorate. The Anti‑Narcotics Directorate called in police to stake out the courier company’s office where the delivery was due to be picked up.
The suspects arrived at the door in a car. The first defendant, forty‑one, alighted and was arrested, with the parcel. Police who searched the car recovered 15.7 grams of marijuana.
Investigators determined the two men were part of a wider operation that profited from receiving, storing, packaging and distributing narcotics shipped through the postal system.
During questioning, the 41-year-old admitted he had been collecting packages on instructions from two individuals identified only as “Mustafa” and “Ussman,” who paid him BD35 per pickup.
He said the intercepted parcel contained four rolled packets of narcotics in different colours, along with a plastic pipe bearing heroin residue.
He further confessed to carrying out dead drops — leaving narcotics at prearranged locations for buyers — on multiple occasions, and admitted to both selling and using drugs himself.
He and his 43-year-old accomplice were ultimately convicted of importing marijuana, while the two other men, aged 29 and 33, were found guilty of possessing narcotics for personal use.
The verdicts underscore Bahraini authorities’ continued reliance on customs screening and postal interception to disrupt international drug-trafficking networks operating through courier services.
