Iraq, Lebanon intel cooperation leads to destruction of Captagon factory

Lebanese service discovered a mill successful the eastbound Bekaa Valley with ample amounts of the addictive stimulant inside.

Iraqi and Lebanese quality agencies person coordinated to observe and destruct 1 of Lebanon’s largest cause factories making the highly addictive amphetamine Captagon, Iraq’s Ministry of Interior says.

The announcement precocious connected Monday showcased uncommon information cognition betwixt the 2 countries and comes a period aft the Lebanese service issued a connection astir the find of a mill with ample amounts of drugs successful Yammoune colony successful the eastbound Bekaa Valley.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said the Lebanese cognition successful Yammoune successful mid-July came aft Iraqi authorities gave Beirut accusation astir the factory.

A elder Lebanese information authoritative connected Tuesday said it was not wide wherefore Iraqi authorities made the announcement connected Monday, adding that Lebanon’s information agencies are ever successful interaction with Arab and planetary information agencies.

Arab states person been intensifying efforts to conflict the monolithic cause trade.

The immense bulk of the world’s Captagon is produced successful neighbouring Syria with immoderate accumulation successful Lebanon.

Western governments estimated that Captagon generated billions of dollars successful gross for ousted longtime Syrian person Bashar al-Assad, his family, associates and allies. The erstwhile authorities successful Damascus denied the accusations.

But successful the contiguous days aft al-Assad’s autumn successful December, absorption fighters, who took power of the capital, Damascus, uncovered ample stashes of Captagon, a stimulant that has agelong been mass-produced successful the state and became astir synonymous with the nation’s erstwhile leadership.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, who led the rebels who forced al-Assad retired of the state and has since go interim Syrian president, accused the erstwhile authorities of turning Syria into “the world’s starring root of Captagon”. He promised to ace down connected Captagon manufacturing and trade.

In February, the interior ministers of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq held talks successful Amman connected ways to combat the amerciable cause commercialized and agreed to acceptable up a associated telecommunications compartment to speech information.

Smugglers person utilized Jordan arsenic a corridor to smuggle Captagon pills retired of Syria, chiefly to oil-rich Arab Gulf states.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies