Brazilian Tries to Smuggle Over 6 Kilos of Cocaine into Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Customs agents at the Rafik Hariri International Airport on Tuesday foiled an attempt to smuggle a quantity of drugs into the country.
“A 25-year-old Brazilian man identified as K. B. tried to smuggle 6.1 kilograms of cocaine that were hidden among his clothes in two suitcases,” state-run National News Agency said.
Security authorities at the airport are conducting the necessary investigations and the man is being interrogated under the supervision of the general prosecution, it added.
The detainee will be later referred to the Central Anti-Drug Bureau in Beirut, the agency noted.
11 March 2014, 22:03
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Reply to .mowaten., I do not post here often but today is your lucky day. This is not "BS propaganda" and you know it. Hizbullah has long been well known to be directly involved in the supply and distribution of illicit drugs in Lebanon and abroad as one of its primary fundraising mechanisms. It is an open secret that the vast majority of heroin trade in Lebanon is fixed through Breitel in the Bekaa and Bir Hassan and Dahiyeh in Beirut all of which are Hizbullah strongholds. Almost ALL heroin/opium export from Iran to Beirut is explicitly with hizbullah's blessing and cover. Another very open secret is that the vast majority of the cocaine imported to Lebanon is also only under the cover and blessing of hizbullah. The only major drug transactions that have occured in or through Lebanon outside of Hizbullah's umbrella are the following:
to be con't in next post
11 March 2014, 22:03
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following up from my last post...
1. Hashish farming/distribution/export (this is Lebanon's traditional and prolific export long before hizbullah existed, nonetheless, hizbullah is well known to farming/distribute/export hashish from areas it controls in the Bekaa also)
2. Marijuana farming/distribution for the local market (mostly a recent phenomenon operating on still a very small scale)
3. Methaphetamine/Crystal Meth production (also a local phenomenon with limited exports to Iran from Beirut that were quickly taken over by Hizbullah)
4. Captagon pills manufacture/export (another recent phenomenon that has simply moved it's underground factories from Syria to Lebanon due to the Civil war there - market mostly controlled by Syrians & Saudis)
