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TDT | Manama

A Bahraini ex-convict was sentenced to seven years in jail by the Fourth High Criminal Court for selling drugs. The man, who had recently completed a 10-year imprisonment sentence for his conviction in a similar case, was also fined BD5,000 by the same court. He was caught last Ramadan in May selling narcotics worth BD100 to a secret police informant near a supermarket in Muharraq Governorate.

This happened after the Interior Ministry’s Anti-Narcotics Directorate was notified about the man’s illegal activities. The secret informant was employed by the police to contact the defendant, consolidate his relationship with him, and eventually buy drugs from him. While policemen were stealthily monitoring the situation, the defendant sold the narcotics to the informant and he was arrested on the spot.

The defendant confessed in the police interrogation that he handed over the drugs to his friend (the informant), but he denied selling it to him and claimed he was giving it for free. On May 18 this year, the Public Prosecution interrogated the defendant and accused him of the illegal sale of hashish, as well as possession of other types of narcotics.