-from haaretz.com-

By Jack Khoury

Police and IDF troops early Tuesday seized the largest shipment of pure heroin ever to be intercepted on the border with Lebanon, a total of 32.5 kilograms of pure heroin, worth some NIS 30 million.

Police Superintendent Ami Mualem, commander of the force’ Lebanon border unit, told Haaretz that a joint police-IDF patrol in the Biranit area detected two men with large packs on their backs.

Police arrested the two, and were shocked the find the large amount of heroin in the backpacks, Mualem said.

“This was the largest quantity of heroin ever captured on the northern border,” he added.

The two suspects were from Rama village and have criminal records related to drug smuggling, police said.

They stressed that the case had no connection with the recently disclosed arrest of an IDF non-commissioned officer suspected of having provided classified information to Hezbollah, which allegedly compensated him with quantities of drugs.