Italian police seize 37m tramadol pills worth $75 million from India bound for Daesh terrorists

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Representational image only. Italian police said the consignment had come from India and would have been used for two purposes: to help finance terrorism and for use by extremist fighters as a stimulant and to heighten resistance to physical stress.


London: A hip-load of a synthetic opoid-like drug from India to be sold to Daesh extremist group in Libya to give them greater resilience has been seized by the Italian police, according to media reports on Wednesday.

The 37 million 'tramadol' pills, worth $75 million, were found packed into three containers at the port of Genoa, labelled as blankets and shampoo and set to be loaded on a freighter bound for Misrata and Tobruk in Libya, The Times reported.

Tramadol is a synthetic opioid-like drug used as a painkiller.

"ISIS (Daesh) is making a fortune from this traffic, giving it to its fighters to make them feel no pain," the British newspaper quoted an Italian investigator as saying.

Italian police said the consignment had come from India and would have been used for two purposes: to help finance terrorism and for use by extremist fighters as a stimulant and to heighten resistance to physical stress, the BBC reported.

Italian investigators traced the tramadol shipment to an Indian pharmaceuticals company, the report said.

The tramadol pills would sell for two dollars each in Libya, said the investigator.

Boko Haram, the Nigerian terror group, is said to feed child soldiers dates stuffed with tramadol before sending them on missions.

Daesh is already known for feeding its fighters Captagon, an amphetamine that blocks hunger, fear and fatigue.

Last year police at the Greek port of Piraeus found a container carrying 26 million tramadol tablets, originally from India and allegedly destined for a Libyan company with ties to Daesh, the report said.

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[Logicaldude]

Anyone can legally import those pills from India. As long as the company fulfilled export obligations they are ok.

It's some intermediary that faked documents, purpose etc. I hope the Italians are able to get them, particularly if they had sympathies with these scum.

 

[graphican]

Good story.. Another evidence that India is supporting global terrorists.

If the shipment was meant for a legitimate drug company, in other words a legitimate trade, Italians would not have stopped it.

 

[Logicaldude]

Good story.. Another evidence that India is supporting global terrorists.

If the shipment was meant for a legitimate drug company, in other words a legitimate trade, Italians would not have stopped it.

A drug company will not import drugs duh!

A trading company would, then sell it at a profit to someone else.

Since the intermediary faked the documents, it's clear it could not be legally sent to Lybia, hence caught.

The drug is legal in India. In some countries it is not. It's the importers responsibility to follow destination laws and Indian drug companies to follow Indian export laws. The importer in this case had illegitimate designs and hence caught, hopefully.

Will the official Chinese cheerleader say China is supporting daesh because most of the ammo used by them is Chinese?

https://www.google.co.in/amp/amp.ti...-ammunition-us-china-soviet-union/?source=dam