BEIRUT: Customs officials at Beirut’s international airport Saturday arrested a passenger who is suspected of trying to smuggle liquid cocaine into Lebanon, state media said.
The National News Agency said the 33-year-old passenger, who was identified by his initials D.A.B., traveled from Brazil to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa en route to Lebanon.
The suspect was arrested after he landed in Beirut, confiscating his baggage that contained clothes soaked in a suspicious liquid, which is suspected to be liquid cocaine. The overall weight of the liquid-soaked clothes was about 40 kilograms, which Customs estimated to be worth LL200 million ($133,333). The suspected was handed over to Anti-Drug Bureau for questioning.
