Syria's Assad propped up the Captagon drug trade

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The Captagon trade began industrialising around 2018-2019 as the Assad regime — and other armed groups in Syria -- invested in production facilities, warehouses, and trafficking networks
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Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the production of the highly addictive drug Captagon
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How Syria's Assad propped up the Captagon drug trade
Assad's regime raked in $5 billion per year from the Captagon drug trade, dwarfing Syria's official budget and making it a lifeline for the bankrupted country. Imtiaz Tyab has new details about what was discovered about the trade after Assad's rule collapsed.
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