Italian finance police officers check boxes containing ISIS produced amphetamine pills in this still image obtained from an undated handout video, in Salerno, Italy. Italian Finance Police/Handout via REUTERS
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police said on Wednesday they had seized about 14 tonnes of amphetamine pills worth around 1 billion euros ($1 billion) arriving from Syria, in what they described as the world's single largest operation of its kind.
Investigators said they impounded three container ships that had docked in the southern Italian port of Salerno and found 84 million pills of the drug Captagon inside machinery and large paper cylinders for industrial use they were carrying.
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