This is Beirut, 2024-12-25 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one million pills of captagon, whose industrial-scale production flourished under ousted president Bashar al-Assad. Captagon is a banned amphetamine-like stimulant that became Syria's largest export during the country's more than ...
Vanessa Kallas, 2024-12-16 11:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The Assad regime has fallen, leaving behind the largest Captagon empire in the world. For years, the regime relied on the multibillion-dollar Captagon market to finance its war efforts, support allied militias like Hezbollah and circumvent international sanctions. Recent seizures of Captagon factories and pills in former regime strongholds ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-22 20:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Interior and Municipalities Bassam Mawlawi announced on "X" that the Anti-Drug Department at Customs seized nine million Captagon pills being smuggled through the Beirut Port. The drugs were concealed "within a shipment of bags of grains intended for Kenya as the first destination." Mawlawi affirmed that investigations ...