Narcotic Captagon pills confiscated at shipping office in Damascus

Damascus, SANA – The Interior Ministry said that narcotic Captagon (fenethylline) pills have been confiscated at a shipping office in Damascus.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the Ministry said that the Narcotics Department seized around 8 kilograms (around 50,000 pills) of Captagon which were concealed in a difficult to detect manner inside household rubber wipers that were to be exported outside Syria.

Hazem Sabbagh

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