The Iraqi authorities announced today that they seized more than three million captagon tablets on the border with Syria, a drug from the amphetamine family whose trade has increased in recent years in the Middle East.
The pills were hidden in crates of apples in a refrigerated truck at the Al-Qaim border crossing, which connects the mostly desert Al-Anbar province in western Iraq with Syria's Deir Ezzor region, Iraqi authorities said, adding that the driver had been arrested.
An unnamed Iraqi government official said the truck was traveling from Syria to Iraq.
Iraq is bordered by Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait, and is on the trade route for captagon, a narcotic that is mainly produced in Syria and is very popular in the Gulf countries.
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