Members of a criminal organization that imported drugs from South America through European ports and airports have been arrested
The Reggio Calabria Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza and officials of the local office of the Customs Agency and the Monopolies seized another large load of narcotics, identifying a container from Canada carrying timber destined for processing, in which a batch of marijuana for a total weight of 1,220 kilograms was hidden.
The Guardia di Finanza specified that the batch of drugs seized, once placed on the market, could have yielded to criminal organizations about 1.8 million euros. From the beginning of this year in the Calabrian port, a total of almost 2.74 tons of cocaine have so far been seized.
Meanwhile, today the soldiers of the I.C.O. central service and the provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza of Catanzaro have executed an order, issued by the GIP of the Court of Catanzaro at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, with which nine subjects were ordered to be remanded in prison, accused in various ways of having promoted, directed, financed, organized, and carried out intense international drug trafficking from South America. One of the accusations is of having organized trafficking from the territories mainly of Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, for the importation of concealed cocaine into Europe in containers loaded on merchant ships destined for Northern European ports (mainly Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Antwerp) and national ports (Gioia Tauro, Livorno, Civitavecchia, Genoa, and Trieste), where men of the association were able to organize teams of exfiltrators from the port area.
Additionally, the organization allegedly carried out imports of cocaine via Frankfurt Airport and with the shipment, by courier, of liquid cocaine hidden inside moringa juice, concealed by soaking the cardboard boxes with narcotics containing fruit from Colombia.
