Minister of Trade Mohamed Much announced Customs officers at Istanbul’s Ambarli port confiscated 12.3 million Captagon pills, the largest seizure of of its kind on Saturday. grains that weigh a total of 2.09 tons were discovered inside a shipping container. The container has been unloaded from an incoming ship in Turkish and then loaded onto another ship on Transit flight from Turkey. The arrival port and destination of The container is not detected.
The minister foreigner said nationalbelieved to be the “organizer” of Smuggling, caught at the airport in Istanbul while trying to escape.
Ambarlı is busy Harbor on European Istanbul sideas a center for cargo ships. Customs officers and anti-drug police seized tons of Drugs from ships arriving at the port of Ambarli in The pastespecially from South America countries.
Turkey is a transit route for drug smugglers operating Between Asia and Europe. Drugs are smuggled from Asia to Europe via Turkish, while produced synthetic drugs in Europe is smuggled into the Middle East. The country, however, stepped up up Her efforts to seal out drug smuggling through which terrorist groups and international Gang profits.
In July, nearly 20,000 suspects were arrested in National drug control operations in more More than 15,000 operations, according to Interior Ministry figures. Along with 1.7 tons of cannabis and 242 kilograms (533.5 lb). of Heroin, security forces seized about 30,000 Captagon pills in July via Turkey.
Captagon, created in The 1960s spread as an alternative to other synthetic drugs in The Middle East in In recent years, it is believed that many terrorist groups, including ISIS, are benefiting from this organization trade.
drug control departments in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and others countries newly announced drug seizure numbers for 2022 which refers to Captagon trade is still growing. the vast majority of Captagon, whose name is derived from a drug that was previously legal against narcolepsy in Syria and Lebanon and smuggling them to their country main consumer market in Gulf. It is used by super-rich in Saudi Arabia as a party Pills, by a gunman men for Feeling of Indomitable produced, as well as by the poor people who need to me work Several jobs to make ends meet. Based on on The street the value of Captagon and more conservative Production Estimates, Captagon Growing economy can be worth $5 billion.
