Al- Saour: Large quantities of narcotics caught in air and naval ports and investigated by Attorney General's Office.
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Tripoli, 11.02.2016(Lana) Head of Investigations at Attorney
General's Office, Al-Sadiq Al- Saour confirmed Thursday
That there are quantities of various types of narcotics that were
caught in airports, seaports and land border crossing points and are
all being investigated by the Attorney General's Office.
At a press conference Thursday, At Tripoli Courts Compound, Head
of investigations at Attorney General's Office, Al-Sadiq Al-Saour,
said 90% of the cases were referred to the specialized courts. The
cases are related to smuggling of spirits, tranquilizers and
narcotics and hundreds of tons of hashish, he explained.
He revealed that there are 62 cases related to smuggling of
narcotics through Libyan border points were referred to the
specialized courts. He said the value of narcotics caught estimated
at 197 million LD and hallucinations tablets estimated at 1.5 million
LD and spirits at 6 million LD.
He also said 4 tankers were caught smuggling oil and the cases
were referred to the courts.
Al-Saour also touched on the issue of detainees who were not
referred to the prosecution or the courts, stating that not referring
those arrested to the prosecution or the judiciary amounts to a crime
of restricting freedom and kidnapping and it is the right of the
affected citizens or their relatives to take legal action and observe
controls stated in the penal law related to arrests and searches and
detention periods.
He said the Attorney General's Office received many complaints by
local and international rights organizations, and that the former
issued instructions to many bodies to provide it with the list of the
detainees, the reason for their detention in order to commission
investigations and take action for releasing the detainees by law for
those who committed no crime.
He also referred to the Special Deterrence Force in Tripoli
saying they held many criminal and organized crime gangs and many of
them are detained with the police stations and criminal
investigations, confirming that the Attorney General's Office
assigned 10 members of the prosecution to start investigations with
the defendants and take legal action against them.
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