DUBAI: Lebanese authorities have thwarted an attempt to smuggle 100,000 amphetamine pills from the country to º£½ÇÖ±²¥, two days after the Kingdom seized a shipment of 14.4 million pills dispatched from the small Mediterranean country.
In a statement, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces said the Captagon pills were hidden in a batch of sterilization equipment set to be shipped to º£½ÇÖ±²¥, adding that three people who admitted to being part of the operation were arrested.
This is the latest in a series of drug smuggling operations from Lebanon, which has found itself in hot water after its relations with º£½ÇÖ±²¥ soured.
Late Saturday, the state news agency SPA said the 14.4 million were hidden in a shipment of iron plates and seized by authorities in Jeddah.
Lebanon’s caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fehmi said the pills originated from Latakia in Syria and shipped to º£½ÇÖ±²¥ via Beirut with a forged Greek certificate of origin.
Two months ago, º£½ÇÖ±²¥Â banned imports of all Lebanese agricultural produce, citing an increase in drug smuggling after millions of pills were found hidden in 80,000 hollowed out pomegranates.
