Egypt seizes 4 tonnes of Syrian hashish in milk cartons at Port Said
Egyptian customs officers seized four tonnes of hashish packed in milk cartons aboard the ship EGY CROWN at Port Said on 12 April 2020. The consignment had come from Syria and was bound for Benghazi in Libya, according to statements by Libya's interior minister.
Egyptian customs authorities in Port Said seized four tonnes of hashish
from the ship EGY CROWN on 12 April 2020.[1][2]The vessel had come from
Syria and was headed for the port of Benghazi in Libya.[1][2]
The hashish was packed inside milk cartons manufactured by the Syrian
company Milkman, according to the same accounts.[1][2]Milkman was owned
by Syrian businessman Rami Makhlouf, a cousin of Syria’s president who was
listed under United States and European sanctions.[1][2]
The seizure was made public by Fathi Bashagha, interior minister of Libya’s
UN-recognised Government of National Accord, in early May 2020 statements
accusing the Syrian government and Khalifa Haftar’s forces of running drugs
through Mediterranean ports under their control.[1][2]Neither account
reports any arrests or the legal fate of the shipment.[1][2]
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The seizure is reported through statements by Libya's GNA interior minister Fathi Bashagha; no Egyptian customs statement was found in the opened sources.
No arrests, charges or court outcomes for the shipment were reported in the opened sources.
Customs officers at Hurghada International Airport stopped a foreign passenger arriving from a European country and found a plastic roll of green pieces and two bottles, one holding a green plant, all suspected to be marijuana. The Hurghada prosecution is investigating the seizure, and customs filed report No. 12 of 2026.
Customs officers at Hurghada International Airport found a black bag holding 55.5 grams of a green herb suspected to be marijuana in the luggage of a passenger arriving from Turkey. They filed customs seizure report No. 9 of 2026 and held the material; no arrest or charge has been reported.
Cairo postal customs stopped a US parcel of six hair- and hand-care containers weighing 6 kg that airport anti-drug officers said was cannabis oil worth about 12 million Egyptian pounds; prosecutors ordered a foreign national held for four days.
Egypt's drug-control police arrested seven people in four operations in Alexandria and Sharqia and seized 64 kg of hashish, the Interior Ministry said. A woman arrested in Zagazig was found with 5 kg of hashish, a pistol, ammunition and a car, and police valued the haul at about 6 million Egyptian pounds.
