tue 29 dec 2015, 19:51

Customs found five tons of drugs in school desks

Photo: REUTERS

BEIRUT –

The Lebanese customs on Tuesday at the Beirut international airport, five tons of drugs intercepted. The amfetaminepillen and hashish were hidden in a party school desks that would be shipped to Egypt, according to a veiligheidsbron.

Almost at the same time, found the security forces in the north of Lebanon, two production sites for amfetaminepillen and other drugs during a series of raids. Both discoveries came after a number of drug seizures at the airport of Beirut, in recent months, including one that led to the arrest of a Saudi prince accused of drug smuggling.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said that the surgery Tuesday at the airport, one of the largest in its kind and that the drugs over Egypt as possible to other countries would be smuggled. “We will not allow Lebanon is a transit country for drugs, he added.