Safaga Customs Seize 1,310 Boxes of Hair Tonics and Vitamins Hidden in Personal Baggage
A truck leaving Safaga port's customs gate was found to be carrying 1,090 boxes of hair tonics and 220 boxes of foreign-made vitamins inside a personal-baggage consignment from an Arab country. Customs put the dues owed at about 3 million pounds and filed seizure report no. 515 of 2026.
22 October 2026
Customs officers at Safaga port stopped a truck as it was leaving the port's customs gate and found 1,310 boxes of hair-tonic products and foreign-made vitamins hidden inside a personal-baggage consignment that had arrived from an Arab country, according to a Safaga Customs account carried by Egyptian outlets on 22 October.
A customs committee inventoried the consignment and recorded 1,090 boxes of hair tonics and 220 boxes of foreign-made vitamins. Customs put the dues and compensation owed on the shipment at about 3 million Egyptian pounds. The reports give no market value for the goods themselves.
Atef El-Sayed, head of the central administration for Red Sea and southern-region customs, ordered legal procedures and the filing of customs seizure report no. 515 of 2026. The consignment was held as breaching the Pharmacy Practice Law (127 of 1955), the Customs Law (207 of 2020) and the Import and Export Law (118 of 1975), the reports say.
For anyone shipping personal effects into Safaga, the case shows how medicines and supplements inside a baggage consignment can be treated: these quantities were handled as an import in breach of the pharmacy and customs rules, not as personal use. The reports say the checks follow instructions from the head of the Customs Authority to tighten supervision at customs outlets and airports.
Hurghada News reported a separate seizure at the same port on 21 October, when customs stopped medicines and medical devices hidden in a car arriving from Saudi Arabia.