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Reuters: Large lab for producing 'jihad drug' found in Syria
2024-12-15
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

"Come for the Jihad. Stay for the drugs."

Another one? How is it that Syria was poor, with all the drug profits?
[Regnum] A large laboratory for the production of the drug Captagon and huge stockpiles of the produced prohibited substance were discovered in the Syrian city of Douma, which is located in the northeastern suburbs of Damascus. This was reported on December 13 by the American newspaper The New York Times.

"Syrian rebels said on Friday they had discovered huge stockpiles of an illegal amphetamine called Captagon in a warehouse in Damascus," the publication said.

It is specified that thousands of drug tablets with a logo in the form of a double crescent or the inscription Lexus were found in the laboratory. According to the author of the publication, representatives of the Syrian opposition who discovered the laboratory burned some of the produced tablets and threw the rest into the sewer.

Captagon is also called the "poor man's cocaine" or the "jihad drug."

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 6, the actress of Russian TV series and model from Russian rap artists' videos was detained along with an accomplice with a hundred packages of narcotic substances. She hid the packages of the substance in a large bra.

On December 2, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Stanislav Moiseyev, the founder of the online drug-selling platform Hydra, to life imprisonment and a fine of 4 million rubles. His 15 accomplices were also sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from eight to 23 years and fined a total of 16 million rubles.
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Posted by:badanov

#1  Inside Assad's drugs empire: Industrial-scale lab where dictator's lackeys made him $2.4billion profit a year by cooking up 'poor man's cocaine' to flood the West
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-12-15 02:32  

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