Syrian fighters stand in a warehouse where amphetamine pills known as Captagon were manufactured before the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government in the town of Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria on January 1, 2025. ABULMONAM EASSA FOR « LE MONDE »
The Syrian interior ministry said Monday, October 20, 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", Brigadier General 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.
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