Tag Archives: Amphetamines

Syria is the Middle East’s main producer of drug Captagon and Saudi Arabia is the main consumer market. Iraqi security forces seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant Captagon, making several arrests and breaking up a drug trafficking ring. “Around 6.2 million pills” were uncovered in a …

Italian police said Wednesday that they had seized a world record 15-ton haul of amphetamines made by ISIS in Syria. The drug, in the form of 84 million Captagon tablets, was worth about one billion euros ($1.1 billion), police said in a statement, describing the operation as “the biggest seizure …