Provisional Indictment Against a Group of Major Drug Dealers

The investigating judge in the north, Dany Al-Zaini, issued a strict provisional indictment under articles 126 (narcotics) in conjunction with article 257 (penal code), based on prior offenses and the recurrence of drug trafficking, following the arrests of some gang members in person and others in absentia. The number of defendants in this case amounts to eight, namely: Ziad Mohammed Al-Rashaini, Ali Mohammed Al-Dhiqa, Walid Mohammed Suleiman, Abbas Ali Zaiter, Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Masri, Jaafar Hussein Ali Naif Al-Masri, Noah Ali Dawood Zaiter, and Ali Sadiq Al-Masri, for engaging in drug trafficking, promotion, and consumption. A permanent inquiry has also been filed to identify all of the following: Abdullah Al-Mustarah, Ahad Deeb, and Ata Ashqar. The army intelligence had detained the narcotics dealer Ziad Al-Rashaini, who confessed before the military police that he had been involved in drug trafficking for major drug dealers in Lebanon and the region from 2013 to 2019, starting from a path in Ecuador to Lebanon, where he began promoting cocaine among the dealers themselves since the types and preparations of drugs differ from one dealer to another, and this situation continued until his arrest earlier this year.