Passenger Held Over 407 Pills at Hurghada Airport Released on 10,000-Pound Bail

Hurghada prosecutors have released the foreign passenger caught with 407 narcotic pills at Hurghada International Airport on 10,000 Egyptian pounds bail, pending investigation, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.

The man was stopped after arriving on a flight from Belgium, when customs officers at the arrivals gate put his bags through the X-ray scanner and saw shapes they could not account for. A customs committee then searched the luggage and found 407 assorted narcotic pills along with a bottle marked "CBD" at a concentration of 100 milligrams, hidden among his belongings.

The seizure was written up as customs report No. 7 of 2026 and referred to prosecutors, who have kept the case open. The report cites Egypt's anti-narcotics law 182 of 1960, the customs law 207 of 2020 and the import and export law 118 of 1975.

We reported the seizure itself on 28 September; the bail decision is the first movement in the case since. The report does not name the passenger, give his nationality, identify the pills or say when he is next due before investigators.

For visitors, the detail worth carrying is a small one: the bottle labelled CBD was seized alongside the pills and written into the same customs report — the one citing the anti-narcotics law. Al-Masry Al-Youm places the case within a wider tightening of passenger and baggage checks at Egypt's airports and border crossings.