2023-07-17 12:32:55
The Iraqi Interior Ministry reported on Sunday the rare discovery of a captagon manufacturing site in southern Iraq which has become a hub for drug trafficking in recent years.
“Today is perhaps the first time that a laboratory for manufacturing captagon has been discovered,” General Saad Maan, spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry, said in a video relayed on the media. social networks.
This captagon production unit, a narcotic belonging to the amphetamine family, was discovered in the Iraqi region of Muthana, bordering Saudi Arabia, is it mentioned in the press release from the ministry which specifies that the laboratory is “equipped machines to make captagon pills.
Bordering Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Syria, Iraq has few drug manufacturing sites on its soil, despite being considered a transit country for drug trafficking. In recent years, the consumption of narcotics has exploded there.
In the video, General Saad Maan maintained that the discovered workshop is “an attempt by some to start the manufacturing process inside the country”, specifying that these pills generally come from abroad.
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