BEIRUT: Customs at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport foiled an attempt by a Swedish national to smuggle a large quantity of narcotics into Lebanon, a source told The Daily Star Thursday.
30-year-old J.A. had in his possession 18.850 kilograms of narcotics, presumed to be cocaine paste, stashed inside 12 plastic bottles in his luggage.
The busted drugs were assumed to be worth LL 471,250,000 ($314,166).
The suspect was arrested upon his arrival to Beirut from Cairo. He initially traveled from Brazil to Addis Ababa and Cairo en route to Beirut.
Mount Lebanon Magistrate Maher Sheaito ordered his arrest and referred him with the confiscated drugs to the Central Drug Bureau in Beirut.
