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Conflict Incident Report
Security Forces: Captagon smuggler arrested in Bekaa
Date of incident:
August 27, 2016
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Judicial Police - ISF
Lebanese Civilians
NNA - Central drug fighting Bureau at the Judicial Police Unit arrested in coordination with concerned Security Forces in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Bekaa region the Lebanese R.D born in 1977 while smuggling big amounts of captagon tablets to the Gulf countries in unprecedented methods, Interior Security Forces - General Directorate, Public Relations Branch said in a communiqué issued on Saturday.
The communiqué added that the K.S.A. authorities have confiscated lately a big amount of captagon pills (600,000 pills) inside a truck body which the detained sent to the Kingdom.
Investigations are ongoing under the supervision of concerned judiciary to detain all involved persons.
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):
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.