The production of captagon tablets requires the chemical synthesis of the amphetamine, followed by the manufacture of the tablets (tableting). [...] From the information known about large cases in the EU, there are two prevailing situations: cases linked to the production of captagon tablets (mainly in the Netherlands), and cases where tablets produced outside the EU (mainly in Syria or Lebanon) are trafficked to the EU with the intention of being rerouted, either directly or after repacking, to consumer markets in and around the Arabian Penin. [...] Egypt According to the French Internal Security Attaché in Egypt, in August 2021 the official website of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced a seizure of captagon tablets in the cargo of a ship in the port of Alexandria. [...] The investigation determined the arrival of a vessel under the Comorian flag, from the island of Arwad (near the port of Tartous in Syria) in the port of Alexandria, on a stopover for repairs. [...] From the point of view of the Jordanian authorities — and contrary to pledges made by the Syrian authorities to the Jordanians to deal with this phenomenon — on the ground, the Syrian units at the Syrian–Jordanian border are either passive or complicit in the actions of these criminal groups.
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Table of Contents
- Authors 3
- Funding 3
- Acknowledgements 3
- Contents 4
- Introduction 5
- Key findings 5
- Historical background 7
- Captagon® the medicinal product 7
- Medicine diversion to illicit production 9
- Production and trafficking of captagon 10
- Consumer markets for captagon 10
- Seizures of captagon in the European Union 11
- Germany 11
- Greece 13
- Italy 15
- Romania 15
- France 16
- Austria 16
- Seizures of captagon tablets overseas with links to the European Union 17
- Production of captagon tablets in the European Union 17
- Forensic analysis of captagon tablets 18
- No evidence of links to the Islamic State terrorist organisation 19
- Links to the Syrian regime 20
- Conclusions and recommendations 20
- Supplementary information 22
- Egypt 22
- Jordan 22
- Kuwait 22
- Lebanon 23
- Turkey 23
- Ukraine 24
- Annex 1 25
- References 26
