A man was caught attempting to smuggle 48,000 cans of Heineken beer disguised as Cola into Saudi Arabia.
“A truck carrying what first seemed to be normal cans of the soft drink was stopped and after the standard process of searching the products, it became clear that the alcoholic beers were covered with sticker logos of a soft drink manufacturer,” Al Batha border General Manager Abdulrahman al Mahna was quoted as saying by Al Arabiya News.
Alcohol is strictly prohibited in the country, and the penalty includes a prison sentence and flogging if caught.
This is only the most recent in several recorded cases of people trying to smuggle prohibited items in to the country.
A few months ago, officials caught a Saudi man trying to enter Saudi Arabia from Bahrain with 12 bottles of liquor sewed into his trousers. More recently, Saudi officials said they confiscated more than 19,000 bottles of alcoholic drinks hidden in a shipment of rice and tomato paste.
