UNODC: ISIL Supplying Militants with Captagon Drug for Ultimate Violent Acts

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Deputy Director General and Executive Director Yury Fedotov announced that the ISIL is producing Captagon tablets to make its militants reach the c1imax of violence and barbarism.

"The ISIL is trying to make its militants addicted to Captagon, because using this drug results in violent and barbaric acts," Fedotov said on Thursday.

He noted that the ISIL also intends to sell its Captagon tablets in the international markets.

Captagon is the brand name for the amphetamine phenethylline, a synthetic stimulant.

The banned drug is consumed mainly in the Middle East and has reportedly been widely used by militants in Syria.

On November 2, Lebanese authorities charged a Saudi prince and nine others with drug trafficking, a week after they were caught in a record drug bust.

Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four others were detained by airport security on October 26 after nearly two tons of Captagon capsules and cocaine were found waiting to be loaded onto their private plane at Beirut airport.

A public prosecutor "has charged 10 people, including five arrested individuals -- a Saudi prince and Saudi nationals... with smuggling and selling the drug Captagon", the judicial source said.

Five individuals still at large were included in the charges, including three Lebanese and two Saudi nationals, the source added.

In late March 2014, Jordanian border guards had seized two vehicles crossing from Syria loaded with arms and thousands of Captagon tablets.

Local media quoted an army official as saying one of the vehicles and its cargo was destroyed when it was fired on by border guards during the operation.

The other was found to be carrying 209 weapons, which the report did not identify, and 10,000 capsules of Captagon, the brand name for the amphetamine phenethylline.

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