Middle East

"In February 2020, the UAE found 35 million Captagon pills in a shipment of electricity cables from Syria to Jebel Ali.[35]

In April 2020, Saudi Arabia seized 44.7 million Captagon pills smuggled from Syria.[36]

On 1 July 2020, an anti-drug operation coordinated in Italy by the Italian Guardia di Finanza and Customs and Monopolies Agency seized 14 tonnes of amphetamines, labeled as Captagon, smuggled from Syria and initially hypothesized by the Italian authorities to have been produced by ISIS,[37][38][39] which were found in three shipping containers filled with around 84 million pills, in the southern port of Salerno.[37][38][39][40]

In November 2020, Egypt managed to seize two shipments of Captagon pills at Damietta port coming from Syria, the first had 3,251,500 tablets,[41] while the second contained 11 million tablets.[42]

In December 2020, Italian authorities seized at Napoli about 14 tonnes of Captagon arriving from Latakia, Syria and heading towards Libya, including about 84 million pills, worth around $1 billion.[43]"