Jan 16, 2024. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
And it was guaranteed by drug traffickers - some of them Albanians - with the mediation from Dubai of Bruno Carbone, the right-hand man of Raffaele Imperiale, the boss of Van Gogh, two criminal organizations that used this route to bring cocaine, marijuana and heroin.
But
both were dismantled by an Italian anti-mafia operation and investigation
coordinated by the Naples Prosecutor's Office.
According
to Italian media, 29 people, members of two criminal organizations dedicated to
international drug trafficking and distribution, were arrested this Tuesday in
an operation by the Naples police in Italy.
The
operation started in the early hours of the morning and was mainly focused on
the Sanita area. Thus, about 100 kg of drugs were seized and the group
communicated with encrypted phones.
Part of
this group is also Bruno Carbone, the Italian arrested in Dubai in November
2022, wanted since 2003 and considered one of the most important traffickers
after Raffaele Imperiale.
Among the
arrested are some Albanians and the organization trafficked cocaine, marijuana
and heroin. The drug route has been the Netherlands and Spain.
Drugs,
especially cocaine, traveled in large bags or containers. But also in
submarines. That had become the safest tool for criminal organizations.
Confirmation
of the use of "underwater" travel was discovered by the Italian
police during an interception of an Albanian boss, among those arrested in this
operation.
In 2021,
speaking to a compatriot who had just landed in Naples, he reflected on the
risk that a shipment of drugs could be detected by drug-sniffing dogs if it was
carried in bags.
Containers
are safer, but with submarines there are more guarantees:
"Underwater
is 100% safe, but this can only be done from Panama", he says in the
intercepts.
This is the
confirmation of how the drug traffic is using this additional means of
transport, as it has already been discovered by the American police during a
recent anti-drug operation.
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