The General Administration of Narcotics Control raided Al-Kif dens, and succeeded in seizing (2101,732 kg) banjo, (584,216 kg) hashish, (180,199 kg) heroin, and a quantity of estrox, weighing (79,814 kg), and a quantity of of the “Shabu” ice drug, and I weighed (28.18 kilograms).
The efforts resulted in seizing 2,915 kilograms of opium, a quantity of crack (750 grams), a quantity of voodoo, 420 grams, an amount of LSD, 120 grams, and a quantity of cocaine. I weighed (10 grams).
It is noteworthy that Article 33 of the Penal Code punishes anyone who engages in drug trafficking with life imprisonment, ranging from 3 years hard imprisonment, to life imprisonment or the death penalty in some cases, and a fine of up to 100,000 Egyptian pounds, and it does not exceed 500 One thousand Egyptian pounds, and this is in the event that drugs or anything related to them are exported from agricultural crops, and the Penal Code stipulates in Article No. 34 that the penalty for drug trafficking within the community reaches life imprisonment and death according to the facts of the case, and if there are justifications Aggravating the penalty for the absence of aggravating circumstances for that.
The penalty for drug trafficking is reduced to be imprisoned for a period of one year and not to reach a period of 5 years, and a fine of no less than 200 Egyptian pounds and not up to 5,000 Egyptian pounds is required to be paid, and this is all in the case of the seized narcotic substances being weakly anesthetized. And natural narcotic substances, and this is due to the criminal lab and a report on the narcotic substances that were seized and the passport of the accused who were caught in flagrante delicto. A fine of one thousand Egyptian pounds, and not more than three thousand Egyptian pounds, if he was arrested in a designated place or prepared for taking narcotic substances, and taking narcotic substances with full knowledge of that, and the penalty increases by double to two years if the narcotics are heroin and cocaine .
The quantity and type of narcotic substances seized, and the schedules listed therein, play a role in the issuance of the penalty on dealers and users of those substances, with the punishment of dealers who are addicted to cocaine and heroin, and they are two of the substances belonging to the first schedule of narcotic substances. Sometimes the penalty in these cases does not exceed 3 years in prison.
