The Lebanese security authorities launched a campaign against die Drug industry after Saudi Arabia and Greece announced two attempts to smuggle drugs from Lebanon on Friday.
The Lebanese army announced on Saturday evening that their units in Cooperation with a group from the Secret Service Directorate in the village of Al-Sharawneh in Baalbek die Houses of a number of wanted people and a factory with equipment and machinery to manufacture raw materials for have searched die Manufacture of Captagon.
The Army’s statement added that die Seizures were handed over to the relevant authorities while die Matter is being pursued, “order die Arrest those involved “.
It came after Saudi Arabia announced on Friday that it had foiled an attempt to smuggle 2.4 million narcotic amphetamine tablets out of Lebanon, die in a shipment of pomegranate fruits were hidden.
The spokesman for the Directorate-General for Narcotics Control, Captain Muhammad Al-Najidi, stated that “die proactive security monitoring of the activities of criminal networks, die undermined the smuggling of narcotics into Saudi Arabia, resulted in thwarting attempts to smuggle 2,466,563 amphetamine tablets, die in Coordination with the General Customs Authority followed up and confiscated: “In the port of King Abdul Aziz in Dammam were die Anesthetic pills in a shipment of pomegranate fruits from Lebanon. “
Greece announced on Friday evening die Confiscation of 4 tons of hashish, die in a delivery of machines for making sweets were hidden, die from Lebanon in die Slovakia were transported.
The Greek authorities stated that die According to information from the American side, the drug shipment was confiscated. Greece added: “We have received assistance from Saudi Arabia in controlling the transport of medicines for die Slovakia.”
It turned out that the market value of the seized pharmaceutical shipment is estimated at 33 million euros. This shipment arrived on April 14th in the port of Piraeus in Athens, Greece, and should take the train over die Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary in die Slovakia.
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