Dubai’s Drug Bust Nets Over $1 Billion in Pills Ravaging Mideast
- Dubai confiscated haul of captagon tablets hidden inside doors
- US and UK say Syria’s Assad regime profits from drug’s sales
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Dubai customs agents foiled what was likely one of the largest drug smuggling operations in the Middle East, seizing nearly 14 tons of a highly addictive stimulant known as captagon and arresting six suspects.
The pills, with street value of nearly 4 billion dirhams ($1.1 billion), were hidden inside 651 doors and 432 decorative panels and shipped on five containers, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of the interior, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said on X, formally known as Twitter.