The United States has slapped sanctions on two cousins of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over involvement in an illicit drug trafficking network.The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against six people on Tuesday, alleging that they produced and exported an amphetamine known as Captagon and used the sales to help fund the Syrian government.“Syria has become a global leader in the production of highly addictive Captagon, much of which is trafficked through Lebanon,” OFAC Director Andrea M Gacki said in a statement (PDF).
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