Baladi News
Daraa rebels announced that “Brigade 108” seized an amount of Captagon pills and Hashish, coming from Sweida to Daraa.
A source told Baladi News that the person in charge of drug smuggling is Brigadier General Wafiq Nasser, head of the Military Intelligence branch in the southern region, who cooperates with the leaders of Shabiha militias to facilitate this trafficking for large sums of money.
The source added that drug trade has sold well in Sweida over the last years, which was approved by Al-Watan pro-regime newspaper that confessed that such a trade became active in the governorate and that the material is circulated by promoters and traders.
Media sources operating in Sweida stated that residents of al-Afina village caught and handed over five officers from “National Defense” militia to the military intelligence branch while transporting weapons and ammunition to the Islamic State-held areas. However, hours later, the officers were released by the branch headed by Nasser.
Nevertheless, Assad’s regime had a different story. It accused a number of “smugglers and weapons dealers” of the incident, denying that they are affiliated with the National Defense Militias. Whereas, Syrian regime websites posted pictures of big amounts of weapons and ammunition that were to be smuggled to ISIS in the outskirts of the governorate.
It is noteworthy the road between Sweida and Daraa is fully controlled by Assad’s regime, meanwhile activists from Daraa accused regime thugs of promoting drug trafficking between the two governorates to make profits on one hand and cause chaos in the liberated areas on the other hand.