Interior Minister in the caretaker government, Bassam Mawlawi, announced a "major seizure operation conducted by the drug enforcement unit in customs of approximately 3.5 million Captagon pills prepared for smuggling in silicone fingers from Beirut Port to Nigeria as the primary destination." Mawlawi confirmed "the arrest of one of the involved individuals, who is of Syrian nationality, while investigations are ongoing at the Central Drug Enforcement Office of the Internal Security Forces."