UAE: 143 tonnes of tobacco products seized from illegal factory in farm

Sharjah - The farm was being misused for the manufacture, trade and storage of neswar by the workers.

A total of 143 tonnes of neswar (banned tobacco product) and its raw materials were seized from an unauthorised factory functioned inside a farm in Dhaid, a top official with Al Dhaid City Municipality has said.

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Ali Mussabah Al Tunaiji, Director of the municipality, said that during a crackdown targeting illegal activities in abandoned farms, municipality inspectors managed to seize the materials from a farm in the Saih Al Muhab area.

Al Tunaiji said a number of workers were also caught red-handed while processing neswar. “The civic body’s inspection teams had been keeping a surveillance on the farm after they received information about the illegal activities there. They monitored the movements of the workers and caught some of them red-handed while manufacturing neswar inside a warehouse that was converted into a makeshift factory,” he added.