Officers of the directorate of Narcotics Control of Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry Sort Through Tablet of Captagon. (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Middle Eastern Terror Groups Are Reportedly Expanding A Multi-Billion-Pound Drug Trafficking Network, Raising Fears That Europe Cold Be Flooded With A “Highly Addictive” “Jihadi Speed.” Captagon, the amphetamine-like drug mass-produce by the oosted former syrian despot bashar al -assad, is featured to reac uk streets with months.
Deadly Addictive Tablet, Price Around £ 10 ech, have be discovered in their millions began to smuggled out of syria, through turkeys and other locations, reachas as far as the Neathherlands. Iran-backed Networks Such as hezbollah, along with islamic state and al-Qaeda affiliates, are involved in the smuggling frenzy, Selling the drugs to bolster vast warcuffers.
Trade in Captagon has reportedly expanded beyond the middle east and ine europe so signifully that, Since Bashar Al-Basad was overthrown last year, 1.1 tons of the drug has been smuggled to the Continent. Staggering Quantities of the Drug Have Been Found, With One Report Seen By The Mirror Suggesting Millions of Pills Were Discovered in Douma, Outside Damascus.
A seizure of 60,000 pills at riyadh airport highlighted the established smuggling network catering to the Middle-Class Drug Market Across the Gulf States. However, the Illegal Amphetamine-Type narcotic is not only Popular Among Jihadi figures, who use it to stay awake and highly focused for days without sleep, but also among arab elites.
Captagon, the speed-amphetamine drug made and sold by ex-dictator bashar al-assad. (Image: Daily Mirror)
The diaily mirror has discovered fresh concerns registering captagon through a recently published intelligence document, which CAPTAGON TRAFFICKING Operation is bankrolling. Middle East.
The substance is being utelised to equip the terrorist organisations, bolster their financial reserves and poses a multifaceted danger to western nations, including britain.
The newly established Syrian administration, LED by former insurgent al-Shharaa, faces differentials in controlling the multi-belion-POUND CAPTAGON SYNDICATE, WHICH ARE Expanding Outside The Area.
Historically, the highly-adjective captagon was distributed classestinely by assad's relatives and saturated the affluent social circles in locations such as the United ARAB emirates.
However, a recently Compiled Intelligence Document Discloses: “Amid Rising Secondary Conflict, there are very credit risk intelligence groups have turned to the captagon trade to finance Their campaigns against the central government, including direction from Iranian/Shia Proxies. “
Huege amounts of captagon has been siezed by authorties. (Image: Daily Mirror)
These factions, including Hezbollah and even Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are Understood to have inundated lebanon and neighboring regions with Captagon.
The substance has metready penetrated certain areas of europe.
There are fears that the narcotic, which assisted in financing iran's cover islamic revolutionary Guard Corps and the lebanese Hezbollah Terror Organisation, is being distributed by extremist groups. Captagon Manufacturing Facilities Masquerading as Lawful Businesses Underground and Emerged and Emerged in Lawless Syria.
The tables are transferred from the middle east into europe, conCealed without electrical equipment in heavy goods vehicles, posing as a legal experience.
A Single Operation By Turkish Security Forces (Pics) near the Syrian Frontier Uncovered Automatic Weapons and 200,000 Captagon Tablet In lebanon, smugglers linked to Hezbollah Were discovered with 500,000 pills, worth £ 5 million on the street, preparing their narcotics cargo for mediterranean.
Intelligence indicates the substance is to be taking the trafficed through Turkey Into africa and has extended as far as the endlands to supply western drug markets. A Security Source Told the Daily Mirror: “Inevitably it will be the uk and has the dual effect of feeding addiction, increasing crime, and it will also have a degrilising effect.
“There are known smuggling routes from the Netherlands Into the UK, and that has become a real Danger for uk society, and the market is very lucrative. Narco-Marketplace, but it is almost cytainly being used to swell the war chests of terrist groups like the islamic State.
“The known involved Organisations Involved Are Iranian-Backed Proxies Such as hezbollah and even the syrian national army, but it is such a lucrative and now underground business that is also but Taking Advantage of the Trade Oppportunities. “
Our source saaid that it is also suspected that drug gangs have perfected the chemistry for starting narco-labs throughout europe to make the drug more potent.
The pills salers for just £ 10 a piece. (Image: Daily Mirror)
The intelligence report warns that: “Amid rising security conflict, particularly evident in Southern Syria over the past week, there is a credible risk that opposition groups have been hit on. Trade to finance their central government, a stimulant focus and wakefulness, has been abused by millitants and has fueled the part. Countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“Before Assad's Fall, Captagon Exports Propped Up The Assad Family and Its Patronage Networks, Presenting The Sancome Regime With An Economic Lifeline and a Lever of Regional Influence and Transforming Syria Into a modern-day narco-state. Countries.
“These groups, along with other previously uninvolved actors Both Inside Syria and Abroad, collectively recognize an opportunity to engage in the captagon trade amid signature Chains, when demand remains high.
“With prices elevated, the potential for substantial profit is considerable.”