Ports under Syria's Assad and Libya's Haftar are being used to transport illicit drugs and the two strongmen are allegedly amassing large profits
For centuries, warlords and dictators have created opportunities from political instability, using the cover of wars and conflicts to prosper illicitly.
“Haftar‘s Military Investment Commission has long embarked on opening a maritime shipping and air route to create a black economy with the Assad regime to help the regime evade sanctions and benefit financially,"Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar is pictured, in Benghazi, Libya, October 14, 2017. “The drugs were placed in milk cartons manufactured by a Syrian company named Milkman owned by a Syrian businessman listed on US & European sanctions regulations,” detailed Bashagha further the illegal transaction between Haftar and the Assad regime.
While the Assad family has been able to survive the Arab Spring at a brutal cost to the Syrian people, Haftar, a former general of the Libyan dictator, has long, putting Libya in a state vulnerable to illicit drug trade. “The Syrian army was directly involved in the traffic, extracting monetary tribute from traffickers to allow heroin through control points and allowing the use of army trucks and helicopters to transport narcotics to transfer points on the Lebanese coast,” Kraehe added.
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