Tag: Captagon
Captagon boosts the Syrian narco-state
Friday, May 19, in Riyadh, on the 32e Arab League summit opened in the presence of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Damascus had been excluded in 2011, following the deadly repression…
Faced with the Assad regime, master of captagon trafficking, Arab countries are using carrots and sticks
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Amman on May 8, 2023. KHALIL MAZRAAWI / AFP The fight against captagon trafficking has emerged as the priority issue for Arab normalization with…
Record seizure of 2.3 tons of captagon pills in Syria, ministry announces
The Syrian Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday June 29 a record seizure of 2.3 tons of captagon pills, or about 14 million tablets, in western Syria. Read alsoIraq: 6 million…
Captagon Traffic Surpasses $5 Billion in 2021
A report to be released on Tuesday stresses that the Syrian government, suffocated by international sanctions, “uses the trafficking of this drug as a means of political and economic survival”.…
Captagon and how Syria became a narco-state
Syria exports millions of Captagon amphetamine pills to the Gulf States and the rest of the world. For the regime of Bashar al-Asad, Captagon has become the most important export…
Narcotics trial – Six Captagon suspects already free
“Krone” readers know: One of the largest drug criminal proceedings is currently being negotiated at the regional court – the case of the Captagon mafia. During a break in the…
Captagon process – the confusion of interpreters is dragging out the process
200,000 phone calls in Arabic – translated by an interpreter who has long since been withdrawn from the trial because of a liaison with an Iraqi key witness. Now, thousands…
In Salzburg – Trial: Trade in 13.8 million Captagon pills
14 defendants – 15 days of trial scheduled until January 26th – drugs with a sales value of 40 million euros smuggled from Lebanon to the “stopover” in Austria An…