Italy seizes 24 million synthetic-opiate pills ISIS planned to use to finance its operations

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Italy seizes 24 million synthetic-opiate pills ISIS planned to use to finance its operations
Reuters

 ROME (Reuters) - Italy seized more than 24 million tablets of a synthetic opiate that Islamic State militants planned to sell to finance attacks around the world, the head of a southern Italian court said on Friday.

The pills were seized by finance police and customs officials in the container port of Gioia Tauro, Italy's biggest, according to a statement. The US Drug Enforcement Administration collaborated in the investigation.

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