The First Karkh Investigation Court issued a judicial decision implemented by the General Directorate for Narcotic Affairs, through which it arrested the largest drug trafficking gang in northern Iraq.
A statement by the media center of the Supreme Judicial Council stated that "a force from the Anti-drug force carried out, under the supervision of the first Karkh Investigation Court, a qualitative, pre-emptive security operation in Dohuk governorate, in coordination with the Erbil drug control and with a high-level security effort, which resulted in the arrest of drug dealers who are extremely dangerous to the security of society."
He pointed out that "they were seized with narcotic pills of the type Captacon weighing (236,476) kilograms and opium weighing (35,755) kilograms.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency