A total of 104 people received an arrest warrant for being involved in a network for international drug trafficking.
The “maxi-operation”, the result of three separate investigations, is in charge of the public prosecutors of Milan (North), Florence (center) and Reggio Calabria (south), the police said in a statement.
Six Italians were arrested in Switzerland, which will be extradited to Italy, at the request of the judicial authorities of Milan and Florence, informed the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (OFJ).
The three investigations are aimed at the Los Moles mafia clan, accused, among others, of drug trafficking, possession of weapons, money laundering, recycling, tax evasion, fraudulent bankruptcy and extortion.
The prosecution of Reggio Calabria issued 36 arrest warrants, the Milan 54 and the Florence 14, according to the same source.
The cocaine arrived at the ports of Livorno, in Tuscany (center), and Gioia Tauro, in Calabria and had a network of international contacts for its distribution in Europe.
Only in the Tuscan port, between November 6 and 8, 2019, were they kidnapped 430 packages of cocaine, each weighing about 1,100 grams, hidden inside wooden boxes shipped from Brazil.
The investigation by the Calabrian prosecutor’s office established that since 2019 four Peruvians and one Colombian were part of the network in Italy.
Two of them were “chemists” in charge of drugs and three were professional divers, in charge of recovering drugs at sea if necessary, the statement said.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese welcomed “the detention throughout the national territory as well as abroad of a hundred people considered to belong to the ‘Ndrangheta.”
The feared Calabrian mafia is considered by experts as the most powerful Italian mafia, with ramifications throughout the world, having supplanted the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the Neapolitan Camorra.
According to the Italian justice, it has at least 20,000 members worldwide and is present on all five continents.
Hundreds of suspected members of the organization are being tried in a “macro trial” that should last more than two years.
They include political leaders, police officers and businessmen. Some 900 witnesses and 400 lawyers will be heard in a room specially prepared to host this trial.
Source From: Ambito
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