DAMASCUS: The Syrian interior ministry said Monday it seized about 12 million captagon stimulant pills in a raid on a drug smuggling network operating near Damascus.
The seizure marks one of the largest drug busts since the transitional authority assumed power in late 2024.
Following “precise monitoring and tracking of a smuggling network attempting to traffic large quantities of narcotics abroad,” security forces seized “around 12 million captagon pills in the Al-Dumayr area,” Brig. Gen. Khaled Eid, director of the Anti-Narcotics Department, said in a ministry statement.
The leader of the network was arrested during the operation, according to Eid.
The confiscated drugs will be destroyed.
