Captagon reaches Jordan via "mortar attack" from Syria

ARK News… The Jordanian army announced that it thwarted a new attempt to smuggle narcotic drugs for the second time this week from Syria to Jordan.

The Jordanian Army in a statement today, Monday, October 16, 2023, announced that the Northern Military District thwarted, yesterday evening, at one of its fronts within its area of responsibility, an attempt to smuggle a quantity of narcotic drugs coming from Syrian territory.

According to the statement, after receiving intelligence information indicating a smuggling operation, the Border Guard forces closed the area from which the smuggling was intended, indicating that after searching and surveying the area, they found a quantity of narcotic substances (Captagon) stored inside a plastic shell.

Last Friday, the Jordanian Armed Forces thwarted an attempt to smuggle large quantities of narcotic drugs on one of its fronts within its area of responsibility into Jordanian territory coming from Syria.

At the beginning of this month, Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya reported that his country deals with every truck entering from Syria as loaded with drugs, noting that large quantities of drugs have been seized on the Syrian-Jordanian border.

During the past years, hundreds of drug shipments coming from areas controlled by the Assad regime in Syria were seized in many countries of the world, as the regime, the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian militias supporting it in Syria, are a major exporter of narcotic pills in the region and the world.

Last March, the US Treasury Department included figures close to the Assad family on the sanctions list, against the backdrop of their role in the production and smuggling of “Captagon.”

On December 10, the US House of Representatives approved a defense budget bill for the fiscal year 2023, amounting to $858 billion, which includes a project to dismantle the Syrian regime’s production of the drug Captagon, before US President Joe Biden signed it.

According to a report by France Presse Agency on November 3, 2022, “the forces controlling Syria, from its north to its south, passing through its desert and its coasts, and regardless of whether they are loyal to the regime or opposed to it,” all of them overcame the divisions caused by Captagon pills, turning Syria into a drug state superior to Its trade profits amount to $10 billion annually.

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