Clothes Soaked in Millions of Dollars Worth of Cocaine Seized at Airport
Customs agents at Rafik Hariri International Airport discovered on Saturday an attempt to smuggle drugs to Lebanon from Brazil, reported the National News Agency.
It said that the drugs were seized from a Bulgarian traveler arriving from Brazil via Addis Ababa
The traveler used an innovative way of concealing the weapons whereby he soaked clothes he was carrying in his luggage in possibly a liquid form of cocaine.
The clothes, packed in two luggages, weighed around 40 kilograms with an estimated customs cost of LL200 million.
Agents at the airport said that the confiscated goods would cost much more in the market.
The suspect has since been referred to the concerned authorities for investigation.
03 October 2015, 13:13
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VDL: Customs officials at Rafic Hariri Airport confirmed to Joe Azar, VDL resident correspondent, the smuggler confessed to carrying a fake Bulgarian Passport. Moreover, finger printing of the smuggler revealed his true identity to be a Lebanese Shia fundamentalist by the name of Hussain Mahdi Moqdad. Mr. Moqdad confessed without further delay he belonged to the notorious terrorist organization known as Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is an internationally known terrorist organization with links to organized crime, money laundering, political assassinations, and drug trafficking. The leader of the group has publicly ordered his fanatical followers to use, trade and export drugs to finance terrorist activities in many parts of the world.
04 October 2015, 21:13
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Maybe cocaine is considered a weapon. There are so many priorities now, he may have used the word spell check.
