The General Directorate for Drug Control arrested two Sri Lankan expatriates in a coordinated operation after intelligence reports indicated their involvement in narcotics distribution, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement. Officers recovered four kilograms of heroin and methamphetamine from the suspects during the raid in a Kuwait residential area earlier this month. The ministry reported that the two individuals were detained without resistance and that the seized materials underwent initial documentation at the scene. The case forms part of routine enforcement actions against trafficking networks operating within expatriate communities.
The ministry’s statement specified that the four kilograms encompassed both heroin and methamphetamine along with associated packaging materials recovered at the site. Authorities transferred the suspects and all evidence to the Public Prosecution for formal charges under Kuwaiti anti-narcotics statutes. The directorate continues to rely on surveillance and tip-offs to initiate such actions across multiple governorates.
Ministry of Interior records from June 2026 document a separate operation in which the General Department for Drug Enforcement Authority detained three Sri Lankans as part of a seven-person group that also included a Kuwaiti citizen, an Indian national and two stateless Bedouns. That raid produced 2.55 kilograms of hashish, 150 grams of heroin and 20 grams of methamphetamine in addition to thousands of illicit prescription tablets, according to reports compiled by Newswire and Ada Derana from ministry releases. One member of the group faced an extra count of resisting arrest while all seven were referred for prosecution on combined trafficking and possession charges.
A September 13 overview released by the Ministry of Interior outlined 10 additional cases handled by the Directorate-General for Drug Control that netted 4.48 kilograms of methamphetamine and 4.87 kilograms of hashish from 13 suspects including one woman. Those operations also recovered 14,500 Lyrica capsules, multiple weapons with ammunition and more than 12,000 dinars in cash, the ministry figures show. The latest arrests of the two Sri Lankans align with this pattern of targeting both local distribution and cross-border supply lines.
All suspects from the current case remain in custody as investigators examine potential links to larger syndicates, the Ministry of Interior noted in its update. Kuwaiti law assigns severe penalties to narcotics trafficking convictions, a framework applied consistently across the directorate’s enforcement activities. The Public Prosecution will determine the precise charges once laboratory confirmation of the substances is complete.
Periodic summaries issued by the Ministry of Interior throughout 2026 place Asian nationals in a substantial share of recorded drug cases handled by the General Directorate for Drug Control. The directorate’s data further indicate that residential neighborhoods and storage facilities have emerged as frequent locations for these interventions. Investigators maintain focus on dismantling organized networks rather than isolated incidents alone.
