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“Mounjaro,” “Ozempic” and cancer drugs… Investigation tracks a black market through Beirut Airport
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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 case involving drug smuggling through Beirut Airport began to emerge, intersecting with names from Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, and whose communications extended,…
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