Police have arrested a pair of men in possession of two packets of suspected narcotics.
Police received reports that people were transporting drugs on a boat travelling from Male’ to islands in Huvadhoo Atoll.
Police from Gaaf Alifu Vilingili conducted an operation and found the drugs while the vessel was moored in the Gaafu Alifu Nilhandhoo harbor.
Police found the drugs hidden in the shock absorbers of a motorbike on the boat.
The two men arrested are Ziraaru Saeed, 26, Gaafu Alifu Dhandhoo, Hefinaaz and Shamoodh Adam, 26, of Unimaage of the same island.
The drug enforcement department and Vilingili police are investigating the case
