Assad’s Syria, a regime on amphetamines | EUROtoday
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Lhe geographical location of the manufacturing unit was strategic. In Douma, outdoors Damascus, alongside the M5 street that connects the Syrian capital to the Turkish border to the north and the Jordanian border to the south, away from any habitation, hidden behind sand quarries . This manufacturing unit was used to provide cleaning soap then chips, of the “Captain Corn” model, then, formally, biscuits…
But after the departure of its proprietor in 2018 to Egypt, it’s the Khiti holding firm, belonging to Amer Khiti, a businessman near Maher el-Assad, brother of Bashar and commander of the fourth division of the Syrian military. , who took possession of the premises. Maher el-Assad launched the manufacturing of captagon there. Khiti turned a deputy in 2020. The identical 12 months, the Tré division…
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