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2019-06-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Lebanon: Captagon Drug Baron Arrested in Coordination with KSA
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[AnNahar] The Internal Security Forces on Wednesday said they arrested a "prominent" drug trafficking baron suspected of smuggling large shipments of the amphetamine-like drug captagon to at least six countries.
The 31-year-old suspect "had been professionally smuggling captagon to Arab countries for around six years," the ISF said, without naming the man.
He confessed to carrying out "12 smuggling operations to Egypt, Qatar
 ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
," it said in a statement.
He was "one of the most prominent of those involved" in smuggling captagon from Leb to the Gulf, the statement said.
He was arrested in the Bekaa Valley
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in a bust coordinated with Saudi Arabia's Directorate of Narcotics Control, it said.
Four other members of the same smuggling network -- two Lebanese and two Syrians -- were also arrested, according to the statement.
Captagon is an amphetamine manufactured in Leb and probably also in Syria and Iraq, mainly for consumption in Saudi Arabia, according to the French Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT).
It is also one of the most commonly used drugs in the Syrian war, where fighters say it helps them stay awake for days and numbs their senses, giving them stamina for long battles and allowing them to kill with abandon.
Leb has previously stopped several shipments of the drug to Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia.
In May, it arrested a Saudi man at Beirut airport carrying about 10 kilograms of the drug.
In April, it seized more than 800,000 pills worth around $12 million (10.7 million euros) in a bust coordinated with Saudi authorities.
In one of the country's largest busts, Leb arrested a Saudi prince and four other Saudi nationals in October 2015 for attempting to smuggle out nearly two tons of captagon via Beirut's airport.
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