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ISLAMABAD: At the Iraq border, Jordanian authorities seized a total of six million pills of Captagon inside a couple of refrigerated trucks. The pills were being smuggled in date paste and amounted to one ton of amphetamine.
According to officers of the Jordanian customs department, this was one of the biggest hauls ever.
Drugs produced in Syria, seized at border crossing with Iraq
Captagon is produced in Syria and is termed a ‘poor man’s cocaine’, which militants in the war-torn country use laced with caffeine.
Ordinary Syrian are now involved in the trade as it provides more money than legal transactions.
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Details regarding the seizure at the Al Karamah border crossing with Iraq are not sketchy, as it is not known how many people were arrested along with the information as to where the drugs were to be sold.
A think tank based in Cyprus published a report in 2021 regarding Captagon’s production, disclosing that the drug’s market value was $3.5 billion.
