More than 2.5 million captagon pills or jihadist pills as they are called seized by Kurdish security forces in northeastern Syria. This is the largest seizure of this drug in this area.
During a press conference on Tuesday (22/3), the Kurdish police force “Assayech” stated that “438 kilos of drugs or 2,570,580 pills were confiscated”.
The police authority added that they were “hidden, inside building materials such as stones, granite, basalt and ceramics” and moved from areas controlled by factions loyal to Turkey in the north of the country.
“This is the largest seizure of captagon pills in the Northeast Syria “to date,” an Assayech source told AFP.
The pills were confiscated, according to the same source, in a warehouse in the town of Kamihli.
The drugs were to be smuggled into Iraqi Kurdistan, but it is unclear at this time whether Iraq was their final destination.
Kurdish police, according to the Athens News Agency, have repeatedly seized quantities of captagon pills, often from areas controlled by regime forces or opposition factions, the source said.
In recent months, Syrian authorities have announced that they have seized a large consignment of this drug.
Captagon is an amphetamine derived from a psychotropic drug.
Syria is the main producer of this substance, before the outbreak of the conflict in 2011.
But the war made its construction more popular and increased its consumption as well as its exports.
This amphetamine affects several countries in the Middle East more widely. It is also manufactured in Lebanon and Iraq, and is mainly exported to Saudi Arabia.
According to the French Agency, more than 47 million pills have been confiscated there in just a few weeks since the beginning of this year.
Source: News Beast
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