Saudi prince arrested on private plane with 2 tons of drugs

Saudi prince arrested on private plane with 2 tons of drugs

If one is caught in Saudi Arabia trafficking drugs, the authorities will behead you. Many have been beheaded by the Saudi Authorities. It now seems that Saudi prince do not rely only on crude oil money. They also delve into narcotics trade. 

Lebanese security forces are interrogating a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane after they allegedly retrieved 2 tons of narcotics from the aircraft, local media reported.

Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday in Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport.

The prince was about to conduct a flight on his private plane to Saudi Arabia.

Lebanese TV station Al Mayadeen also said that 40 packages of drugs, weighing 2 tons in total, were confiscated.

The prince was arrested and taken in for questioning along with four other people.

According to Press TV they were charged with attempting to smuggle pills of captagon, an amphetamine allegedly widely used among fighters in the Middle East.

In a related development, a Saudi prince was arrested in United States last month over rape charges. 

Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, a Saudi prince, has been arrested on suspicion of a sex crime after his neighbors reported a bleeding woman trying to scale a 2.5-meter-high wall of the rented mansion near Beverly Hills.

Al-Saud, 28, was detained on Wednesday on charges of forced oral copulation and freed on $300,000 bail on Thursday, Los Angeles police say. Along with sex charges he is also accused of battery and false imprisonment. The prince must come to a Los Angeles court on October, 19.

There is still no official reaction of the Saudi embassy in the USA. According to the Los Angeles Police Department's special consul division, the prince does not have diplomatic immunity.

Police was called by the mansion’s neighbor Tennyson Collins who saw a bleeding woman who tried to climb the wall of the residence. When the officers arrived, they escorted about 20 people from the house – many of them were staff.

The prince reportedly rented the 2,000-square meter Beverly Hills mansion, which would cost about $37 million to buy.

The house has been rented for weeks at a time by rich foreigners for about a year now, but the most serious incident there before Wednesday was just a noisy party, Collins told The Los Angeles Times.

“Obviously neighbors aren’t happy about it, but it is what it is,” Collins said.

-RT