Police forces in Tanta on Tuesday seized a factory for manufacturing narcotics and arrested two people in charge of the factory, including the son of the factory’s owner and an unemployed person. Police retrieved 100 tablets of the Tramadol drug, banknotes, and a cell phone with the unemployed person. They are still in pursuit of the factory’s owner. The interior ministry’s General Administration of Narcotics Control stated that police had been monitoring the three suspects involved for trafficking in narcotic drugs, and preparing a warehouse attached to a house in Tanta for the purposes of producing drugs within Gharbiya and neighboring governorates. The defendants confessed during investigations that they prepared the materials and tools used for manufacturing and promoting the drugs.

In January Egypt’s Cabinet approved a draft law amending some provisions of Law No. 182 of 1960 on regulating the use of drugs and combating trafficking.