Syria: Fenethylline
Commons · Question 19060 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Alicia Kearns
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) identify and (b) destroy Captagon (i) production and (ii) distribution facilities in Syria.
Answer
Answered by Hamish Falconer, 17 Dec 2024
We are concerned by the growth of the Captagon industry, which as well as enriching the former Assad regime, is fuelling regional instability and generating vast revenues for criminal gangs and armed groups in Syria and across the region. We are working w...