Italy’s financial police, Guardia di Finanza, said in a statement Wednesday that authorities seized a 15.4 ton shipment of amphetamines reportedly produced by ISIS in Syria.
The police tracked three containers at the port of Salerno in southwest Italy and found around 84 million pills stored inside industrial paper cylinders, CNN reported. The estimated value of the drugs was around $1.12 billion, the largest amphetamine bust in the world by quantity and value, the statement said.
Commander Domenico Napolitano, who oversees the financial police in Naples, told CNN that the paper cylinders hid the drugs well and did not alert the scanners at the port. “We weren’t able to see them but we knew it was arriving because of our ongoing investigations we have with the Camorra,” he said.
Camorra, an Italian organized crime group, plays a role in the distribution of drugs in Italy and was the previous target of a financial police investigation. Italian crime groups have been reported to bring in drugs from ISIS and other groups in the Middle East, according to the Daily Beast.
The amphetamines seized by the financial police were reported to be synthetically-produced Captagon pills, which has been dubbed the “jihad drug” after it was linked to ISIS, according to CBS News.
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