All news on the topic: Captagon

A notorious Syrian-Lebanese trafficker widely known as the “Captagon King,” has been released from a Lebanese prison after completing a seven-year sentence for drug manufacturing and trafficking. Judicial sources confirmed the release of Hassan Daqqou to Daraj, OCCRP’s Lebanese partner.

Syrian authorities have seized nearly 500,000 captagon pills in a bust against a drug smuggling and manufacturing ring in the city of Hama, according to state news agency SANA.

Three Syrian freighters have been accused of transporting grain stolen from Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Syria’s transitional government is cracking down on the production of Captagon — an illicit synthetic stimulant that flourished under the sponsorship of the Bashar al-Assad regime until its fall in December.

Iraqi and Lebanese authorities say they have shut down what they described as the Middle East’s largest Captagon factory, a major blow against the region’s booming trade in the amphetamine-like drug.

Jordanian customs officials have seized 517,000 Captagon pills smuggled from an undisclosed neighboring country, state news agency Petra reported Wednesday.

Kuwait’s Interior Ministry has prevented an attempt to smuggle nearly four million Captagon tablets into the country, valued at approximately $39.3 million.

Yemeni authorities say the Houthis are playing a major role in regional drug trafficking, turning Yemen into a new hub for the Captagon trade, which the group allegedly uses to finance its military operations.

Iraqi forces are intensifying their efforts to combat Captagon smuggling along the Syrian-Iraqi border, following a recent seizure that comes after last week’s interception of an attempt to smuggle 30,000 Captagon tablets in the same area, Al-Baghuz.

A U.S.-based Syrian opposition organization welcomed on Thursday a bill U.S. President Joe Biden signed a day earlier in order to combat the production and trafficking of a potent drug...