DAMASCUS: Syrian government introduced on Tuesday that they had seized 24 kilograms of captagon that have been overwhelmed and reconstituted to seem like hummus bowls. The amphetamine is produced in tablet shape however those smugglers had overwhelmed it and used the ensuing paste to “mildew pottery-like dishes covered with a brown adhesive,” the inner ministry mentioned. One guy used to be arrested in Damascus in reference to the thwarted trafficking strive, the commentary mentioned, with out specifying the place the cargo of faux hummus bowls used to be sure for.
Cocaine in its harder-to-detect liquid shape particularly can be utilized to soak the rest from plywood to T-shirts and retrieved as soon as it reaches its vacation spot. Maximum of world captagon manufacturing originates in Syria, spurring a multi-billion-dollar business that has made the drug the rustic’s greatest export by way of a ways. In step with an AFP tally, round 250 million captagon capsules have been seized international within the first 8 months of 2022.