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Lebanese authorities seized a large quantity of Captagon hidden in a tea shipment bound for Saudi Arabia, the interior minister announced Tuesday. “Painstaking police work led to the seizure of a Captagon shipment, which was headed to Togo in Africa,” Bassam Mawlawi said at a press conference. The shipment’s final destination was meant to be Saudi Arabia, which the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says is the world’s biggest consumer of Captagon, a stimulant derived from a banned fenethylline-based drug. The amphetamine pills, likely manufactured in Lebanon or Syria, were concealed in a seven-tonn…