According to the Greek news outlet, the police of Komotini and Alexandroupoli have seized 13,213 pills in six cases — five of them within forty days. The drugs are said to have been smuggled by illegal immigrants in their backpacks.
Police officials told Kathimerini that two Turkish cartels are responsible for drug and human trafficking in the region and they use methods similar to Mexican cartels, making people pay for crossing the border by working as mules.
Captagon, also known as fenethylline, is a drug produced by synthesizing two other drugs, amphetamine and theophylline. It was launched into prominence by media reports about Daesh* using it as a stimulant for its fighters.
*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist organisation outlawed in Russia.