The US and UK on Tuesday slapped sanctions on four Syrians and two Lebanese involved in manufacturing and trafficking the amphetamine drug Captagon, the two governments said. The six include cousins of Syrian President Bashar Assad and notorious Lebanese drug lynchpins.
Experts say Captagon is primarily produced in Syria and Lebanon, where packages containing millions of pills are smuggled abroad. The trade allegedly has strong ties to Assad and his associates, as well as key ally, the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in neighboring Lebanon.
