Saudi Arabia seizes 12.7 million Captagon pills in pomegranate bust - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Salim A. Essaid

Apr 26, 2023

Saudi Arabia announced a major Captagon bust this week, with more than 12.7 million pills seized. — Captagon pills are pictured in this undated Saudi smuggling bust. — Saudi Interior Ministry

Seized drugs, including Captagon, are displayed for the media in the town of Marea, in the northern Aleppo countryside, on May 24, 2022, following clashes among different Turkey-backed factions in Syria. - A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every frontline: the drug fenethylline, commercially known as captagon. The stimulant -- once notorious for its association with Islamic State fighters -- has spawned an illegal $10-billion industry that not only

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