Drones at Haju. Jordan is fighting a new form of drug smuggling

Since the beginning of the year, the Jordanian army has intercepted 310 drones smuggling drugs to the Kingdom – Arab News said on Sunday. The acquired, among others over 14 million. Captagon tablets – a cheap drug particularly popular in the Middle East.

The armed forces intercepted on average 51 drones per month. They were all used to smuggle drugs on Jordan's territory.

Petra National Information Agency reported that smugglers also tried to send forbidden substances using balloons. Anti -aircraft protection has also been once alerted with a missile fired from Syria. He did not contain explosives, but methamphetamine.

According to the World Drug Report published last month by the UN, Syria adjacent to Jordan still remains the main regional center of drug trafficking – despite the Islamic authorities' actions that overthrew in December last year. The rule of Bashar al-Assad. It was believed that in his time the production of Captagon was developed – a stimulant and a quickly addictive agent, which went to the countries of the region. Many of the production and distribution points operated near borders with Lebanon and Syria. Some, according to Arab investigators, were controlled by Hezbollah – a terrorist group financed by Iran.

According to UN experts, many of the transports currently sent from Syria may still contain supplies produced last year. Specialists try to track where production can be moved. Angela Me, head of the Analysis Department at the UN Office for Drugs and Crime, pointed out that laboratory equipment for the production of synthetic drugs was discovered, among others in Libya. (PAP)

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