Italy seizes drugs worth €1 billion

Italian police said Wednesday they had seized a 14-ton haul of amphetamines made by the Daesh group in Syria, calling it the biggest seizure of such drugs in the world. The drug, in the form of around 84 million Captagon tablets hidden inside industrial goods within containers, was worth about €1 billion ($1.12 billion), and intended to be sold on the European market

“to finance terrorism,” the finance police of Naples said in a statement.

“We know that the Daesh 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,” the statement said.