47 kg of cocaine, packed in 40 boxes across two suitcases, undisguised, with a visible "Coke" label, passed through the security screening of the Beirut airports, including scanners, without detection, according to the Lebanese investigative journalist Radwan Mortada, through al-Mahta.
￭ The bags were not hidden in fake compartments or between clothes, which raises questions about how they cleared the procedures under the airport security service, headed by Brigadier General Fadi Kafouri, a close ally of Lebanon's US-backed President Joseph Aoun.
￭ The shipment was discovered only after an intelligence report and the intervention of the general security personnel.
￭ Instead of opening an investigation into how the drugs passed through airport security, Kapuri complained that general security did not inform him of the operation in advance.