Dubai customs agents foiled what was likely one of the largest drug smuggling operations in the Middle East, seizing nearly 14 tons of a highly addictive stimulant known as captagon and arresting six suspects.
The pills, with street value of nearly 4 billion dirhams , were hidden inside 651 doors and 432 decorative panels and shipped on five containers, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of the interior, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said on X, formally known as Twitter.
The Dubai captagon haul represents the third-largest seizure in recent years. In 2021, Malaysian authorities — tipped off by their counterparts in Saudi Arabia — impounded about 95 million tablets, weighing around 16 tons and having an estimated market value of about $1.2 billion, concealed inside rubber trolley wheels.
Captagon has become a vital revenue generator for Assad and his inner circle who are heavily sanctioned by the West for their bloody crackdown on protesters starting in 2011.
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