home country. that is what we see in a transplant centre which happens without part of patient centres across the uk. what isn t allowed is what happens in this particular case where a complete stranger comes from abroad with near no genetic it or emotional relationship to donate a kidney to someone. that isn t legal and that is in parts of legislation. the difficulty is, i think, how do we make the legislation strict but not too strict? that is somewhere where we need to think about how we look at the legislation again and how we try to support donation and protect vulnerable libidos from being exploited. captagon is a highly addictive drug that has ravaged the middle east in recent years. now a joint investigation by bbc news arabic with investigative journalism network, 0ccrp, has revealed new direct links between this multi billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the syrian armed forces. emir nader reports.
0njordan s border with syria, its army is fighting traffickers of a drug called captagon. translation: they are smugglers. 0ur ground forces were informed and were ready for them. they fired directly at them, forcing them to retreat. they were crawling for their lives. captagon is little known outside the middle east, where this highly addictive, highly accessible amphetamine like pill is wreaking havoc. the syrian regime has been accused of making vast profits from the manufacture and export of this drug. now bbc news arabic has uncovered fresh evidence about exactly how this trade is being managed by members of the syrian elite. in sweida, close to syria s border withjordan, raji falhout led a militia aligned with the government of bashar al assad.
he was found guilty of captagon trafficking after a shipment was seized in malaysia worth over $1 billion. the case was heard behind closed doors, but we met with the judge to find out what was uncovered. translation: he said he was collaborating i with the fourth division. did he give any evidence of his connection to the fourth division? an id card issued by the fourth division. the fourth division is an elite unit of the syrian army. it s led by president bashar al assad s brother maher. the judge concluded that there was no evidence of links between syrian officials to daqqou s trafficking, but in a 600 page confidential court document we found a series of whatsapp messages daqqou sent to someone he called the boss , whose phone number mostly consists of the same digit repeated many times. it s known as a golden number. translation: this number - was obtained from the company in the very first days and belongs to an important person in the authority.
caroline rose is the director of the captagon trade project at the new lines institute a foreign policy think tank and when shejoined me from washington a little earlier, i asked her how dangerous this drug can be. so captagon is an amphetamine type stimulant that was first launched on the licit market in the 1960s from a german pharmaceutical company called zigzag. company called. it was used and it was created to treat attention deficit disorders. that would boost productivity amongst its users. but now the chemical composition of captagon as an illicit substance has evolved greatly. and unfortunately, we don t know too much about it, about its chemical inputs, the additives that many producers put inside of it, and then also the range of amphetamine. the very few drug analyses that exist from laboratory reports show that captagon sometimes is not at all or sorry, amphetamine is not
now, captagon is a highly addictive drug that has brought misery to many people across the middle east in recent years. a joint investigation by bbc news arabic with investigative journalism network, 0ccrp, has revealed new direct links between this multi billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the syrian armed forces. emir nader reports. 0njordan s border with syria, its army is fighting traffickers of a drug called captagon. translation: they are smugglers. 0ur ground forces were informed and were ready for them. they fired directly at them, forcing them to retreat. they were crawling for their lives. captagon is little known outside the middle east, where this highly addictive, highly accessible amphetamine like pill is wreaking havoc. the syrian regime has been accused of making vast profits from the manufacture and export