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Lebanese Army Drugs Captagon Hermel
The Lebanese Army uncovered a drug-manufacturing laboratory near the Syrian border on Monday, seizing a large quantity of Captagon pills and raw materials used in their production during a raid in the Harf al-Sammaqa area of Hermel, a region known for cross-border smuggling. In a statement published on its official X account, the army said the ...
This is Beirut, 07/03 19:50 - Reading : less than a minute
drugs captagon internal security forces isf airport
Six kilograms of Captagon were seized at Beirut airport, in the suitcases of two Syrians. In a statement issued on Friday, the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced that a unit of the airport control brigade “seized overnight around 6 kg of Captagon tablets, concealed in aluminum foil, as if they were chocolate ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-16 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Economy Drugs Pharmacists Syria Lebanon
The President of the Pharmacists’ Syndicate, Joe Salloum, stated that the fall of the Syrian regime would put an end to the smuggling of medications, noting that subsidized medicines have been smuggled across border points. "With the regime's fall, the borders will be controlled, and the process of drug smuggling in both directions will come ...