Customs Confiscate 2 Million Illegal Pills

Customs officers in Lebanon confiscated more than two million pills of the banned stimulant Captagon aboard a bus from southern Syria on Monday, the customs department said.

 

“The customs service at Beirut… seized 2.1 million Captagon pills hidden in a bus that came from the Syrian

free zone in Daraa and were destined for Qatar,” it said in a statement.

 

It called the haul, valued at five billion Lebanese pounds (3.3 million dollars), “one of the most important drug seizures in the Middle East.”

 

Captagon or fenetylline stimulates the central nervous system. It has remained a popular recreational drug among affluent young people.