The drug, in the form of around 84 million Captagon tablets hidden inside industrial goods within containers, was worth about one billion euros ($1.12 billion), and intended to be sold on the European …
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Naples police seize $1bn haul of amphetamines produced in Syria
Police in Italy have made what they claim is the world’s biggest seizure of amphetamines after finding 84 million pills worth €1 billion on a ship from Syria.Investigators in the port of Salerno …
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Italy confiscates $1B worth of amphetamines made by ISIS in Syria
Italian police seized 14 tons of amphetamines with a street value of approximately $1.15 billion, which they suspect was headed for the home base of a notorious European crime clan in Naples and …
Italian police seize £900m of ‘Isis drug’ fenethylline en route from Syria – video
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Italy reports “biggest seizure of amphetamines in the world”: $1B worth of pills from ISIS in Syria
War-torn Syria has become the capital of Captagon, as ISIS produces the drug to fight and fund its terror operations.