The Minister of State for Media Affairs, Government Spokesperson, Jumana Ghunaimat, announced that the General Intelligence Department (GID) has brought the defendant Raed Mohammed Hamdan, “the right arm of the main suspect” in the tobacco case, Awni Mutee.

Ghunaimat told Petra on September 15, 2018, that GID, through intelligence channels, apprehended the accused, who have left the kingdom on July 23, 2018