Some 12 million Captagon (phenytoin) pills were seized at a business near Damascusthe Syrian Ministry of Interior announced yesterday Monday.
It is one of the biggest confiscations announced since the new de facto authorities took power in December 2024.
Then “accurate monitoring and detection of a trafficking ring that attempted to traffic large quantities of psychostimulants abroad”the “security forces” confiscated “about 12 million captagon pills in the district Al Dumayr»said the brigadier general Haled Eiddirector of the drug prosecution department, according to a statement from the ministry.
The head of the ring was arrested during the operation, according to Mr Eid. Seized drugs will be destroyed.
Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine produced illegally, became, according to Agence France-Presse, Syria’s main export product during the civil war that broke out in 2011. According to the same source, it was a major source of illegal financing of the former president’s power Bashar al-Assadwhich is said to have transformed Syria “in a narco-state”.
After the fall of his regime, the new de facto authorities have announced seizures of large quantities of Captagon. However, neighboring countries continue to report interceptions of large shipments.
The psychotropic drug flooded the region, prompting governments to demand from him Lebanon and the Syria to step up their efforts to combat trafficking.
Source :Skai
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