NNA – The Customs Unit at the Passengers and Duty Free Department at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut were able, through a qualitative process and careful follow-up, to thwart an attempt to bring in a quantity of cocaine that one of the passengers coming from Brazil via Turkey had swallowed.
In details, and after following up on the passengers’ manifest and the countries they are coming from, a Brazilian passenger was targeted for suspicion of swallowing a quantity of capsules containing drugs.
After reviewing with the concerned judiciary, the passenger was handed over to the Central Narcotics Control Office, and following an extensive investigation, it was found that there were a large number of capsules containing cocaine in his stomach, which he had swallowed to smuggle into Lebanon.
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