Security authorities in eastern Libya seized large quantities of cocaine ore smuggled from abroad to the Benghazi seaport, before leaking into the country.
The Libyan Attorney General’s Office said on Sunday that the security authorities were able to seize 128 kilograms of cocaine hidden in two containers to preserve foodstuffs, coming from the Republic of Ecuador to the port of Benghazi, with the aim of transporting them to the city of Al-Bayda in eastern Libya.
Media sources revealed that the seizure of large quantities came after the discovery of a conspiracy between one of the officers and the main person involved in bringing drugs.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office noted that the investigator ordered the detention of the arrested defendant and “the officer conspiring with the organized criminal group and directed the judicial police to pursue the rest of the contributors to the criminal incidents.”
At the beginning of March, the Benghazi Anti-Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Authority announced the seizure of a shipment of cocaine, which was “the largest in the country’s history.”
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