Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1149

Importation of narcotics. A material fact which the trial court has independent freedom to assess. - The judgment’s finding that the appellant, a foreigner, entered the country on 6/9/2001 and was apprehended on 7/10/2001 holding and possessing the narcotics heroin and opium in a quantity exceeding his personal needs, that he offered them for circulation, and that he admitted to the two officers involved in the incident immediately upon his arrest that he had brought the two narcotics with him from outside the country and entered with them on the aforementioned date. Sufficient to establish the offence of importation against him. The challenge in this regard is misplaced. - 319 - Penal matters 2- Possessing them with intent to traffic: