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Conflict Incident Report
Man arrested on suspicion of antiques trafficking
Date of incident:
November 15, 2017
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
The Internal Security Forces has arrested a man suspected of forging, stealing and trafficking antiques.
After an extensive investigation, the ISF’s Theft Division arrested a Syrian national, identified as A.J., and born in 1985, for forging antiques and selling them as an original in the Zalqa neighborhood of Nahr al-Mawt in Mount Lebanon.
At the time of his arrest, he was attempting to sell a colored stone sculpture of a king’s head, measured 40 cm long and 25 cm wide, for $120,000.
A.J. reportedly confessed to the crime under investigation, when he told the ISF the sculpture was at his house. Experts analyzed it and concluded that it was a forgery.
This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category:
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category:
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
Classification of conflict (primary):
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.
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