New details of notorious Captagon drug trade exposed with collapse of Syria's Assad regime
A CBS News team gained access to a site outside Damascus which holds the precursor chemicals for Captagon, one of the most ...
The world’s richest drug dealer who is worth more than £722m - more than Rishi Sunak
A Mexican former drug lord is currently the world's richest drug dealer with an estimated fortune of £722 million. He is also ...
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Sen. Tina Smith Co-Authors Bill to Combat Drug Trafficking in Tribal Communities
U.S. SENATE – Sen. Tina Smith (D – Minn.) has introduced legislation aimed at combatting the drug trade within indigenous ...
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Unraveling Duterte’s drug war
MANILA, Philippines-The controversial war on drugs of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte, which claimed the lives of thousands of ...
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Ex-President Duterte is face of illegal drugs, crime —QuadComm's Acop
Former President Rodrigo Duterte is at the center of the criminal syndicate involving the illegal drug trade and other crimes ...
What now for Syria’s £4.5bn illegal drug empire
As those in the lucrative Captagon network move aside, how will the new leaders stop any criminals waiting in the wings to ...
Inside Assad’s Captagon drug-smuggling empire and how it funded brutal Syrian regime
In the city of Douma, 10 kilometres northeast of Syria’s capital of Damascus, warehouses storing thousands of captagon pills ...
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Quad Comm: File criminal raps vs Rodrigo Duterte, allies over incentivized drug war and EJKs
The House Quad Committee recommended on Wednesday, December 18, the filing of crimes against humanity charges against former President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies for his war on drugs and its ...
After pandemic explosion, California drug overdose deaths are falling fast
California’s recent spike in overdose deaths started in 2019 — just as fentanyl, an extremely potent synthetic opioid, ...
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'Tale of 2 Shipments': Deep dive into drug trade, POGOs, EJKs links
(PNA photo by Joan Bondoc) MANILA – The House Quad Committee's (quadcom) series of over 13 hearings unraveled a complex web ...
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Gomez 'distressed' by latest drug, corruption allegations
Retired Anglican Archbishop Drexel Gomez, who was a member of the 1980s commission of inquiry into the impact of drug ...
What Is Captagon, the Illegal Stimulant That Made al-Assad’s Syria a Narcostate?
The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria’s biggest export during its 13-year civil war.