Prison terms and confiscation in Captagon manufacturing case
LIBYA – The Al-Qubba Criminal Court has convicted six defendants of belonging to a criminal gang producing the psychotropic substance fenethylline, known as Captagon, for the purpose of trafficking, sentencing one of them to 25 years in prison and the other five to life imprisonment in absentia.
Prosecution refers six defendants to trial
The Public Prosecution had brought the criminal case against six people who, it said, had joined a gang that deliberately manufactured psychotropic substances for trafficking.
Fines and confiscation of seized items
The court sentenced the first convict to 25 years in prison and a fine of 22,000 dinars, while convicting the remaining five in absentia and sentencing them to life imprisonment and a fine of 70,000 dinars, according to the report. It also ordered the confiscation of the seized psychotropic substances.
