Jordan News

Tomorrow, Monday, the State Security Court is expected to issue its verdict in the case of the “largest drug factory” that was seized in the Muqabalin area in January 2018. At that time, the security services arrested a number of defendants, including non-Jordanians.

The court assigned 21 defendants, 5 of whom are still fugitives, to “possession of narcotics with intent to trade, manufacture of narcotics with intent to trade with international gangs jointly, selling narcotics with intent to trade with international gangs jointly to all defendants except two accused, and exporting narcotics with intent to trade with International gangs to participate in all the accused except for the accused.

The charges of “manufacturing and possessing chemical precursors with the intent to jointly produce” were also charged to all defendants except for two defendants, and the crime of money laundering obtained from a felony jointly with all defendants except for two defendants.

The case revealed that some of the defendants wanted to obtain money illegally, and they agreed among themselves with the participation of international gangs outside Jordan with people of different nationalities to establish a factory for the production of narcotic pills, and from narcotic substances that were manufactured inside Jordan, as stated in the case. and narcotic oils, and chemical precursors,” and then were trafficked inside and outside Jordan by exporting and smuggling them, while the accused began their activity of manufacturing Captagon and narcotic oils from 2009 to 2018.

The defendants used the names of companies as a cover for practicing their activities in the manufacture of grains and oils to be smuggled and sold, as stated in the case. In addition, defendants imported various customs data with high financial values ​​estimated in the millions in their work, as chemical raw materials, tools and industrial equipment from several foreign countries, and the defendants were able to produce Large quantities of grain were sold inside and outside Jordan, and defendants opened bank accounts to deposit money and receive remittances, as it was revealed that there were differences in the names of the fictitious companies, and the high financial values.

And according to what the facts of the case also showed, “the defendants expanded their business after earning high-value money, as two other factories were established, one in Sahab and the other in the Al-Dhahiba area.

And experts explained how “chemicals and machines were used to prepare phenyl and propanone, which are the chemical precursors, which are exclusively used in the manufacture of amphetamine through chemical treatments using chemicals that were among the seizures.”

The experts also pointed out how to “prepare alaban using seized machinery and chemicals, and then explained how to convert amphetamine powder into pharmaceutical tablets through controlled devices and tools by crushing, grinding and mixing.”

The experts continued to clarify, “how to form granules through seized devices and tools, and how to form tablets through the process of pressing granules, and they also explained the device used to get rid of dust stuck to the tablets after the pressing process.”

The experts reached “the final product, which is amphetamine tablets, where a large quantity was seized from the possession of the accused and they had been able to manufacture it, and as a result, the case of the accused was discovered and they were prosecuted.”