Attempts to smuggle thousands of beer cans into Saudi Arabia foiled

          The beer cans were disguised with Pepsi wraps        (C)Twitter

Making alcohol illegal in the country has indeed made people very creative. A cunning plan to smuggle thousands of Heineken cans into Saudi Arabia has been foiled by customs officials. Customs officials in the Middle Eastern country intercepted the shady operation at the al-Batha border crossing with the United Arab Emirates. An estimated 48,000 cans of beer had been disguised with Pepsi branding, with customs officials peeling back the fake wrapping to uncover the Heineken and later posting the photos on Twitter, the Telegraph reports.

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Officials also posted a video on an official account showing them cutting open a 24-pack of the fake Pepsi cans to reveal what was hidden underneath. Border general manager Abdulrahman al-Mahna said his officers "are always ready and alert" to smugglers’ increasingly imaginative attempts to bring contraband across the border.
"A truck carrying what first seemed to be normal cans of the soft drink Pepsi was stopped," he said.
"After the standard process of searching the products, it became clear that the alcoholic beers were covered with Pepsi's sticker logos."
Drinking or possessing alcohol is a criminal offence in the ultra-conservative Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia.