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Conflict Incident Report

State Security captures cell specialized in forging documents

Date of incident: 
December 19, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
State Security

The Department of State Security in Mount Lebanon apprehended a cell that specializes in forging documents.
The cell is comprised of five people, most of them wanted in counterfeit crimes.
The State Security found at the residence of one of the five culprits official seals and forged documents.

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.