Dubai Customs seized 274,000 Captagon pills, halting a drug smuggling attempt. According to the Customs, Captagon is said to be the ‘amphetamine fueling Syria’s war’ or the ‘Jihadists’ drug.’
The smugglers had hidden the drugs in the fuel tank of their vessel, believing that inspectors will not search in that hot spot of the vessel near the engine which can reach up to 60 degrees Celsius.
As the Dubai Customs commented
The body language of the dhow captain aroused the suspicions of the inspectors who subsequently uncovered 137 plastic bags of the pills.
This is the second biggest drug seizure for the Coastal Customs Centers Management after the seizure of 783,800 captagon pills in 2018, and the Customs informed that during 2018, there were 8 drug seizures.
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Yet, in July 2019, the Greek authorities seized a record amount of, allegedly, the world’s largest single haul of super-charged amphetamine Captagon pills, worth more than half a billion euros, onboard a container ship which arrived from Syria at Port of Piraeus.
Concluding, the Greek authorities also seized another vessel that was smuggling Captagon pills and six tons of cannabis, in 2018, that was sailing to Libya.