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Saudi prince arrested at Beirut airport
Monday morning that Prince Abdel Mohsen bin Al-Walled bin Abdelaziz was detained after a “number of packages and suitcases in his possession containing a large amount of narcotics were impounded as he was leaving Lebanon on a private plane.”
The report said that security forces had seized approximately 2 tons of Captagon pills which were distributed between 32 packages and eight suitcases.
The detainee was transferred to the Office of the Appellate Public Prosecutor in Mount Lebanon where he is being questioned along with four of his companions who were on the plane.
Meanwhile, the Lebanon Files online news outlet said that the Saudi prince had been headed to his country’s northern Ha’il region along with four other Saudi nationals.
The outlet identified the men arrested alongside Prince Abdel Mohsen as Bandar bin Saleh al-Sharrari, Yahya bin Sha’im al-Shummari, Ziad bin Samir al-Hakim and Mubarak bin Ali al-Harithi.
“The amount of Captagon was estimated at around 1900 kilograms,” it added.
Lebanon’s state National News Agency described the drug bust as the largest one ever made at Beirut's Rafiq Hariri International Airport.
However, the report did not specify whether a Saudi prince had been arrested, saying only that 5 Saudi nationals had been detained after attempting to smuggle two tons of narcotics via a private jet.
Lebanese security agencies have yet to issue a formal statement on the incident.
Lebanese authorities in the last two years have busted a growing number of attempts to smuggle large amounts of Captagon, including an August 2013 bust at the Beirut port that seized $50-100 million worth of the drug.
Captagon is a synthetic stimulant that was banned in most markets in the mid-1980s but has grown in popularity in Gulf country since the 2000s.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime classifies Captagon as an “amphetamine type stimulant.”
Monday morning that Prince Abdel Mohsen bin Al-Walled bin Abdelaziz was detained after a “number of packages and suitcases in his possession containing a large amount of narcotics were impounded as he was leaving Lebanon on a private plane.”
The report said that security forces had seized approximately 2 tons of Captagon pills which were distributed between 32 packages and eight suitcases.
The detainee was transferred to the Office of the Appellate Public Prosecutor in Mount Lebanon where he is being questioned along with four of his companions who were on the plane.
Meanwhile, the Lebanon Files online news outlet said that the Saudi prince had been headed to his country’s northern Ha’il region along with four other Saudi nationals.
The outlet identified the men arrested alongside Prince Abdel Mohsen as Bandar bin Saleh al-Sharrari, Yahya bin Sha’im al-Shummari, Ziad bin Samir al-Hakim and Mubarak bin Ali al-Harithi.
“The amount of Captagon was estimated at around 1900 kilograms,” it added.
Lebanon’s state National News Agency described the drug bust as the largest one ever made at Beirut's Rafiq Hariri International Airport.
However, the report did not specify whether a Saudi prince had been arrested, saying only that 5 Saudi nationals had been detained after attempting to smuggle two tons of narcotics via a private jet.
Lebanese security agencies have yet to issue a formal statement on the incident.
Lebanese authorities in the last two years have busted a growing number of attempts to smuggle large amounts of Captagon, including an August 2013 bust at the Beirut port that seized $50-100 million worth of the drug.
Captagon is a synthetic stimulant that was banned in most markets in the mid-1980s but has grown in popularity in Gulf country since the 2000s.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime classifies Captagon as an “amphetamine type stimulant.”
