Latest confessions of a Saudi smuggler in Beirut
A new confession by a Saudi smuggling officer in Lebanon has led to the unveiling of a multinational Captagon smuggling ring.
On June 27, it was announced that a Saudi security officer named Adel bin Jafran bin Ghazi Al-Shammari had been arrested at Beirut’s Rafiq al-Hariri airport with 18 kilograms of Captagon psychedelic pills.
The Lebanese newspaper Al-Nahar also wrote in this regard that Al-Shammari arrived in Beirut on May 28 (June 7) to pick up drugs and intended to travel the next morning (June 8), which raised suspicions among airport security forces. And eventually led to his arrest.
Al-Manar reported today (Sunday) that al-Shammari’s confessions have exposed a multinational network smuggling Captagon.
Al-Manar added that after entering Lebanon, the Saudi smuggler went to his apartment in “Zouk Mesbah” in the Lebanese city of Kasrawan, and the next morning, he put Captagon pills in two suitcases and left for the airport. He thought that the airport security forces would not confiscate his luggage and that he could easily leave for Kuwait because there is a policeman in the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior.
In addition to al-Shammari, a Jordanian woman and an Iraqi man were arrested, the report said. Following the interrogation of the three men, Interpol issued notices against five people accused of involvement in the captagon smuggling case: Nayef al-Zafiri (Saudi), Faisal al-Shammari (Kuwaiti), Barakat al-Kaud (Iraqi), “Wahba Alwani” (Iraqi) and “Haytham Ma’mun Ja’far” (Lebanese).
In this regard, in November 2015, a Saudi prince who was trying to smuggle about two tons of drugs from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia was arrested at Beirut airport.
The consignment belonged to Abdul Mohsen bin Waleed bin Abdul Mohsen bin Abdul Aziz (known as Prince Captagon), which contained 24 packages and eight suitcases containing Captagon drugs and was destined for the “buffer zone” (northwestern Saudi Arabia). To be smuggled.