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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.