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- The Daraa Anti-Narcotics Branch is intensifying monitoring and field operations along the border areas with Jordan
- In another incident, anti-narcotics units in the Damascus countryside seized 323 blocks of hashish and approximately 35,000 captagon pills
LONDON: Syrian authorities thwarted a smuggling attempt on Monday involving a large quantity of captagon pills in the southern province of Daraa.
The Ministry of Interior Affairs announced that the psychostimulants were concealed within modified instant juice sachets for powdered drinks, intended for smuggling through the Nasib border crossing with Jordan.
The ministry confirmed that the Daraa Anti-Narcotics Branch is intensifying monitoring and field operations along the border with Jordan to safeguard national security and protect society from the dangers of illicit drugs.
In another incident, anti-narcotics units in the Damascus countryside seized 323 blocks of hashish and approximately 35,000 captagon pills, valued at thousands of US dollars, during an operation in Al-Zabadani.
Authorities in Syria continue to fight against drug trafficking, cooperating with neighboring countries such as Jordan, Turkiye, and Iraq to dismantle criminal networks.
The former regime of Bashar Assad has been accused of turning the country into a hub for the manufacture of the highly toxic captagon while sponsoring cartels to smuggle drugs to the Arab Gulf and other countries.