Directorate General of Lebanese Internal Security Forces announced on Wednesday it had busted over the weekend a storage center and arrested a driver who allegedly transferred the primary chemicals used to manufacture Captagon pills.
The ISF’s Intelligence Branch stopped a Mitsubishi pick-up truck on its way from Baalbeck to Beirut, at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint, and found it filled with the raw chemicals.
Security forces stormed the storage center in Baalbeck simultaneously, according to the ISF statement.
The ISF searched thermos barrels seized from the pick-up truck, discovering four million Captagon pills stored in 228 of the total 366 barrels.
In the storage center in Baalbeck, 893 bags filled with aluminum hydroxide were found, weighing in at around 22 tons. Ninety barrels filled with around 19 tons of formamide were also found.
The driver of the pick-up truck, a Lebanese national identified as H.B., admitted to being in charge of transporting the chemicals from Baalbeck to Beirut. He typically delivered the chemicals to Lebanese national J.Sh., for transport out of Lebanon, according to ISF.
The driver was transferred to the ISF’s Anti-Drug Bureau for further prosecution.
Source: Agencies
