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Lebanon arrests drug baron

Lebanon鈥檚 police yesterday said they arrested a 鈥減rominent鈥 drug-trafficking baron suspected of smuggling large shipments of the amphetamine-like drug captagon to at least six countries.

The 31-year-old suspect 鈥渉ad been professionally smuggling captagon to Arab countries for around six years,鈥 the Internal Security Forces said, without naming the man. He confessed to carrying out 鈥12 smuggling operations to Egypt, Qatar, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Saudi Arabia.鈥 He was arrested in the Bekaa Valley in a bust coordinated with Saudi鈥檚 Directorate of Narcotics Control.


 

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