Saudi says it thwarts drug smuggling operation from Lebanon

DUBAI, June 27 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia acknowledged it had thwarted an strive to smuggle 14.4 million amphetamine pills from Lebanon, two months after it banned imports of Lebanese agricultural produce, citing an rep bigger in drug smuggling.

The file on recount news company SPA slack on Saturday acknowledged the pills, hidden in a cargo of iron plates, had been seized by the Normal Directorate of Narcotics Control in coordination with the tax and customs authority at Jeddah Islamic Port.

A Saudi citizen became arrested in the Riyadh position and referred to the public prosecution, it acknowledged.

Imposing the agricultural produce ban in April, Riyadh acknowledged fruit shipments from Lebanon had been venerable to veil medicines, citing the instance of a batch of pomegranates that it acknowledged had been hollowed out and filled with Captagon pills, a form of amphetamine.

It became now not clear when the ban might doubtless quit.

Writing by Lisa Barrington; Editing by William Mallard

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