An investigation reveals the disappearance of 4 tons of chemicals in Assad regime-controlled areas
An investigation published by the “Investigative Unit of the Swiss Media Group Tamedia Group” in cooperation with the “Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting” and the “Daraj” website revealed the disappearance of 4 tons of chemical substances in mysterious circumstances after they reached Assad regime-controlled areas .
The unit confirmed in its report: “The commercial director of the Mediterranean Pharmaceutical Industries urgently requested from the German company BRENNTAG, in the Swiss city of Basel, on May 20, 2014, five tons of isopropanol and 280 kilograms of diethylamine.”
The unit explained, “After eight days,BRENNTAG submitted the export file to the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, and on November 19, 2014, the chemicals were transported via a strange route to the port of Latakia in Syria.”
The unit indicated that “a quantity of 1.12 tons of isopropanol was used only in the packaging of medicinal tablets, while the other four tons disappeared under mysterious circumstances.”
The unit noted that “isopropanol is used in the manufacture of medical preparations, and is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of sarin, the internationally banned deadly nerve gas.”
According to the report, the defected Brigadier General Zaher al-Saket confirmed that “these four lost tons reached the hands of the Assad regime to manufacture the deadly sarin gas.”
It is worth noting that the Assad regime, with Russian support, committed heinous bloody massacres using chemical weapons, killing thousands of civilians, amid total silence from the international community.
