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Army Seizes Truck Carrying Captagon Manufacturing Equipment in Hermel

This is Beirut, 13/04 12:30 - Reading : less than a minute

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An Army unit, in coordination with a patrol from the Intelligence Directorate, seized a truck carrying equipment used for Captagon production along with raw materials used in narcotics manufacturing in Sammaka, Hermel on Saturday, April 12. According to a statement issued by the Army Command – Directorate of Orientation, “the seized items ...

Iraq Says Seized One Ton of Captagon from Syria via Turkey

This is Beirut, 16/03 19:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Iraqi security forces have seized more than a ton of captagon, an illegal stimulant, smuggled from Syria via Turkey, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Ministry spokesman General Moqdad Miri said the Narcotics Directorate "seized a truck from Syria, bound for Iraq, via Turkey, transporting 1.1 tons" of the synthetic drug in tablet ...

Six Kilograms of Drugs Seized at Beirut Airport

This is Beirut, 07/03 19:50 - Reading : less than a minute

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Six kilograms of Captagon were seized at Beirut airport, in the suitcases of two Syrians. In a statement issued on Friday, the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced that a unit of the airport control brigade “seized overnight around 6 kg of Captagon tablets, concealed in aluminum foil, as if they were chocolate ...

Syria Authorities Say Torched 1 Million Captagon Pills

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 ...

The Fall of the Captagon Empire: Assad’s Regime and the Drug Trade

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 ...

Nine Million Captagon Pills Seized at Beirut Port

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-22 20:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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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 ...