The large warehouse was reportedly located at the headquarters of a military division near Damascus that was commanded by Assad's brother Maher.
A social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
It is a highly addictive drug, mostly containing amphetamine, that is sometimes described as the "poor man's cocaine". This week, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya reported the discovery of thousands of captagon pills at the Mazzeh airbase south of Damascus. Among those sanctioned were two cousins of Bashar al Assad and Khalid Qaddour, a close associate of Maher al-Assad who was described as a "key drug producer and facilitator" of captagon production in Syria.
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