The Lebanese Regie for Tobacco intensified its efforts to combat smuggling, seizing quantities of smuggled cigarettes, counterfeit mu’assal, smuggled Persian tobacco and electronic vape cigarettes. These seizures were the result of operations in the Nabi Sheet area conducted with the support of the Lebanese Army.
The Regie also seized a printing press used for counterfeiting packaging for fake mu’assal in the southern suburb.
Reports of arrest of violators have been filed for consideration by the competent judicial authorities.