15 tons of hashish seized on cargo vessels at Benghazi and Khoms
Police and customs found about five tons of hashish on a container vessel at Benghazi on 9 June 2014 and about ten tons on the Maersk Regensburg at Khoms the next day, netting around 15 tons in 48 hours.
Two drugs busts in 48 hours netted Libyan police and customs officials around 15 tons of hashish at two ports.[1][2]The first discovery came on 9 June aboard a Liberian-flagged container vessel docked in Benghazi, where police acting on a tip-off searched three refrigerated containers and found around five tons of cannabis.[1][2]
In the second bust on 10 June at Khoms, the local CID with members of the public prosecutor’s office swooped on the Maersk Regensburg, which had arrived from Senegal.[1][2]Sniffer dogs detected containers holding around ten tons of hashish at the bottom of crates loaded with vegetables and fruit, including watermelons, allegedly consigned to a local food importer.[1][2]Both consignments were to be destroyed in front of the public prosecutors.[1][2]
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Libya's Interior Ministry said its anti-drugs agency seized more than 85 kg of suspected hashish on 25 October 2026, moving from the east toward the centre and west. The stop, with the Murqub branch and a public prosecutor, also took the truck and the people in the gang. No names or exact count were given.
Customs officers at Misrata Free Zone port found 4,752 blocks of hashish, each about 1.15 kg, hidden among other goods in two containers. The haul totalled more than five tonnes and one Libyan man was arrested. Prosecutors in East Misrata supervised the case.
Security forces raided a network in the Green Mountain near Taknes, about 127 km east of Benghazi, at dawn on 19 July. They seized five tonnes of hashish and broke up what officials called a cannabis cultivation and processing operation, arresting several people.
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