“Mounjaro,” “Ozempic” and cancer drugs… Investigation tracks a black market through Beirut Airport

Suitcases loaded with cancer drugs and “Mounjaro” and “Ozempic” injections, phone numbers registered under the name “DAWA,” and medical prescriptions said to have been sent from Egypt for submission to customs. This is how the threads of a drug-smuggling case through Beirut Airport began to unravel, involving names from Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, and whose connections extended,…