HOW ASSAD BUILT A DRUG EMPIRE UNDER THE COVER OF CIVIL WAR

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While the civil war in Syria continued with millions of killed and fled people, the unlawful empire grew right before the eyes of the leader, Bashar al-Assad. Apeddling on a multibillion-dollar network of drug production and supply, Assad’s regime has turned war-torn Syria into the world’s newest paradise for drug makers. The heart of this empire has been Captagon, a substance that in the Arab world is commonly used with a focus on Saudi Arabia.

In a detailed report for the New York Times ,the entire production and marketing of Captagon in Syria was attributed to the Fourth Armored Division of the Syrian military, a force that has been implicated squarely in the support of the Assad regime. The Bayesian Shabiba, an elite unit that answers directly to the president, was led during this period by Maher al-Assad, the president’s younger brother and one of Syria’s most important power brokers today. That businessmen connected with the recently ousted Baath Party and members of Assad’s extended family engaged in the drug network pointed toward the hereditary nature of the Assad regime in this criminal market.

This is according to the New York Times’ investigation into the chemical business in Syria where use of Assad’s name proposed the solution to one of the major…