According to a video statement posted on the social networks of the Iraqi National Security Agency, the agency announced a “lightning operation” in Baghdad, thanks to which its detachments were able to “overthrow one of the most important trafficking networks of narcotic pills”.
The statement adds: “As a result, an agency force moved in and arrested members of this network, one after another, in flagrante delicto.
“The operation ended with the arrest of 6 suspects and the seizure of a narcotic pill store containing over 12 million narcotic pills, the equivalent of two and a half tons, in one of the areas east of the capital,” the statement said. .
The video attached to the statement showed the pills, which are of the “Benzoxol” type, the scientific name of a drug used to treat neurological diseases, but it can be misused for non-medical purposes, according to a report by the Organization United Nations. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released in 2022, packed in cardboard boxes, as they were seized and discarded.The arrest of the accused.
The drug problem in Iraq
The drug issue has become a serious challenge in Iraq, where drug trafficking and abuse have increased in recent years, particularly in the southern and central regions of the country, bordering Iran, which became a main route for drug trafficking and commerce, especially crystal. In March, Iraq announced the seizure of more than 3 million tablets of the narcotic Captagon on the border with Syria, a type of stimulant amphetamine whose smuggling has increased dramatically in recent years in the Middle East. In June 2022, Iraqi security forces seized a glider carrying one million Captagon tablets near the border with Kuwait. A few months earlier, the Iraqi authorities had announced the confiscation of 6 million tablets of Captagon. At the end of 2021, the Interior Ministry’s Counter-Narcotics Unit announced that the governorates of Basra and Maysan in southern Iraq rank first among the country’s governorates in terms of drug trafficking and drug trafficking. drug abuse.
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