Doha: Lebanese officials foiled a drug smuggling operation involving over one million Captagon pills today at the port of Beirut.
The Lebanese Minister of Interior in the caretaker government, Bassam Mawlawi, announced, on Saturday, the foiled plan of a drug smuggling operation to a Gulf country through Sudan.
Mawlawi said in a post on his Twitter account that "a large quantity of Captagon pills, more than one million pills, was seized by the Lebanese security in the port of Beirut."
He added that this quantity "was hidden inside a shipment of grapes, whose first destination was the Republic of Sudan, and then the State of Kuwait."
He stressed that investigations are continuing to find out more about this shipment.
The trade of Captagon narcotic pills in the Middle East expanded greatly during the year 2021 to exceed five billion dollars, which poses increased health and security risks in the region, according to a report published last April.
