Italy seizes IS-made drugs

Rome: Italian police said Wednesday they had seized a 14tonne haul of amphetamines made by the Islamic State group in Syria, calling it the biggest seizure in the world. The drug, in the form of around 84 million Captagon tablets hidden inside industrial goods within containers, was worth about one billion euros, and intended to be sold on the European market “to finance terrorism”, the finance police of Naples said. “We know that the Islamic State finances its terrorist activities mainly by trafficking drugs made in Syria which in the past few years has become the world’s largest producer of amphetamines.” Police said three suspect containers had arrived at the port of Salerno containing paper rolls. Video images showed pills spilling out of the rolls as they were forced opened.