Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces have thwarted the smuggling of 160,000 captagon pills intended for shipment to an African country and arrested one person suspected of involvement in the attempt.
In a statement on Monday, the security body’s Information Division announced the operation, saying that the captagon pills were hidden inside a machine.
“The Information Division, as a result of its continuous follow-up and crackdown on drug trafficking networks, received information that a 21-year-old Syrian national would be transporting the pills from the Bekaa to Beirut hidden in a machine,” the statement explained.
The division ambushed the alleged suspect, confiscated the pills and arrested him in the locality of Louaizeh, near Baabda.
“After interrogating him, he confessed to what was attributed to him, and that he moved the machine that contained a quantity of seized captagon pills from a warehouse in a town in the Bekaa Valley and took it to Beirut, where he was supposed to deposit it in a warehouse in Dekwaneh in preparation for shipping it abroad,” the ISF statement said.
Efforts are “underway to arrest all those involved” in the case, the statement added.
Lebanese authorities have stepped up efforts to combat drug trafficking from or through Lebanon amid security restrictions on Lebanese exports by Gulf countries.
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