Italian customs investigators seized a Chinese shipment of over six tons of raw materials for the production of synthetic drugs at Milan’s Malpensa Airport on Monday. According to the officials, the goods are worth 630 million euros. The precursors included substances used in the production of pills, such as ecstasy with the high-dose active ingredient MDMA. According to customs projections, „more than 63 million MDMA pills“ could have been produced from these substances.