The cargo was hidden in three containers found in the port of Salerno (AFP)
Rome:
Italian police said on Wednesday they had seized a world record of 14 tonnes of amphetamines carried out by the Islamic State group in Syria.
The drug, in the form of 84 million Captagon tablets, was worth around one billion euros, police said in a statement, describing the operation as “the largest seizure of amphetamines in the world“.
“We know that the Islamic State finances its terrorist activities mainly by trafficking in drugs manufactured in Syria which has become in recent years the world‘s largest producer of amphetamines,” added the press release.
The cargo was hidden in three containers found in the port of Salerno, just south of Naples.
Captagon, a brand name, was originally intended for medical use, but illegal versions have been dubbed “the Jihad drug” – after being widely used by IS fighters in combat -, said the police.
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