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VOA Turkish: After fall of Assad rule, Syria's Captagon production is exposed


FILE - In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian authorities display Captagon pills in rural Damascus, Syria, Nov. 30, 2021.
FILE - In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian authorities display Captagon pills in rural Damascus, Syria, Nov. 30, 2021.

Following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, Captagon production sites have been exposed.

The Syrian opposition claims that former President Assad and his brother Maher Assad ran the production sites. Captagon is a low-cost, amphetamine-like drug.

Muhammed Fares, who once owned a factory in the Damascus countryside to produce potato chips, tells VOA Turkish how his factory was used in Captagon production by the Assad forces.

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