Cousins of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and several of his relatives sanctioned. Accused of trafficking captagon, a synthetic drug that Syria exports in large quantities.
European sanctions consist of a travel ban, the freezing of assets in the EU and the impossibility of benefiting from European funding. The EU blacklist now has 322 people and 81 entities, according to a statement from the EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg. The majority of designations "target individuals and entities responsible for the production and trafficking of narcotics," the statement said.