Tripoli busts Gaddafi-shaped pill shipment as al-Assad's captagon appears in Libya's east
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What happened
Tripoli intercepted 100,000 tablets bearing the late Libyan leader's image shipped via Europe in a Renault Master van, while Benghazi's investigators separately seized captagon tablets assessed to have originated in Syria, where the al-Assad regime once industrialised the billion-dollar trade.
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