Event Brief
Tripoli intercepts Gaddafi-image captagon tablets shipment
By The BriefBrief · Sources (3)
Filed: Sep 17, 2026 at 10:08 AM ET
Summary: Tripoli authorities intercepted a shipment of 100,000 captagon tablets bearing the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s image, sent via Europe in a Renault Master van. Separately, Benghazi investigators seized captagon tablets assessed to have originated in Syria, where the al-Assad regime once industrialised the trade.
WHO: Tripoli authorities; Benghazi investigators
WHAT: Interception of a captagon shipment bearing Gaddafi’s image and a separate seizure of captagon tablets assessed to have originated in Syria
WHEN: Sep 17, 2026 at 9:33 AM ET
WHERE: Libya (Tripoli and Benghazi)
WHY: The seizures were carried out as part of efforts to intercept and seize captagon shipments.
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