Italy revealed Friday that nearly 15 tons of smuggled Captagon amphetamine pills seized last year by the authorities, appeared to have originated from Lebanon’s Hezbollah not ISIS, according to the Italian Nova news agency.
Investigations run by a Naples prosecutor said the financial value of the confiscated drugs amounted to about one billion dollars.
The drugs were hidden inside three suspicious containers that included papers intended for industrial use.
Italian authorities previously believed that ISIS was behind the drug smuggling operation.
However, investigations showed that the Syrian regime and Hezbollah were behind it.
