FLASH
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After the reaction of SPAK regarding the anti-drug operation developed in cooperation with Italy, the reaction of the Guardia di Finanza has also come.
In response, the Guardia di Finanza has given details about the operation, which was extended to several countries, specifically in Italy, Albania, France, Spain and Romania. This operation was developed to dismantle an international cocaine trafficking organization from Latin America to Italy and other European countries.
Guardia di Finanza leaders reported today that they had executed 23 arrest warrants and dismantled a criminal gang dedicated to international drug trafficking between the ports of Livorno, Genoa and Savona. The preliminary order was issued for 23 people present in Italian territory, namely in Tuscany, Calabria, Lazio, Puglia, Campania, Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria and abroad, in Albania, France, Spain and Romania. The activity of the GdF made it possible to seize over 2 tons of cocaine, 45 kilograms of hashish, 20 kilograms of marijuana, which would yield about 70 million euros.
It is also reported that 200 GdF soldiers were involved, along with dog units. They have carried out dozens of checks. It is learned that the searches are still ongoing, which also include hospitality businesses in Florence and are attributed to Albanian suspects. According to the response, the investigations were conducted by the Florence DDA in contact with the Albanian Special Structure against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK) and the Fiscalia Generai of the Ecuadorian State (Fge) within a joint investigative group.
The investigative activities made it possible to discover, with complex and technical activities, a large criminal context devoted to the importation of large quantities of cocaine from South America, sent by an autonomous criminal structure located in Ecuador and operating between country and that country and Colombia, where the drug is bought and then imported into Italy through the port of Livorno.
Of the 23 suspects who have been kept in prison, 6 of them have been placed under house arrest and one has been ordered to appear.
The suspects, of Italian, Albanian, Romanian and Ukrainian nationality, are suspected of being members of a criminal association aimed at international drug trafficking, with a transnational character, in various capacities.
It is about people already involved in episodes of Italian and Albanian organized crime. During the investigations carried out by the economic-financial police unit of Pisa and by Scico, criminal relations for the supply of narcotics were found between exponents of Italian organized crime (mainly 'Ndrangheta and Camorra) and the Albanian criminal association, which operated between Italy, but with branches in Belgium, Albania, France, Germany, Ecuador and Colombia.
The drug shipments were sent from South America to Europe in containers to the Italian ports of Livorno, Genoa and Savona and to other European countries such as Barcelona, Antwerp, Rotterdam and St Petersburg. The containers were then stored at the ports of arrival, where special recovery teams took care of collecting the narcotics and taking them out of the port areas, to be made available to drug-dealing gangs.
To facilitate the operations of identifying and finding the cocaine, the criminal association used radio-location equipment, while the drug was hidden inside containers loaded with exotic fruit covers or in cavities created for this purpose. Similar anti-drug operations are underway in Albania and other countries involved, the final results of which are not yet known at this time.
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