ISF Thwarts Attempt to Smuggle Captagon to Syria
Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau thwarted on Saturday an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of Captagon into the neighboring country Syria, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Six trailer trucks, heading to Syria, in the Bekaa town of Saadnayel were seized by the intelligence bureau.
The trailer trucks were accompanied by a Nissan Sunny with license plate number 104982/T.
Three Syrian men were aboard the Nissan vehicle identified as 51-year-old Yehia Mahmoud al-Mkahal, Sabei Adnan Srour, 27, and Abdul Rahman Khaled Srour, 21.
On March 12, security forces seized more than one million Captagon pills in a valley in the Bekaa region, reportedly worth millions of U.S. dollars.
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