A load consisting of over 6 tons of chemical "ingredients" to refine ecstasy was intercepted at Malpensa by the Varese financial police.
The operation called "Molecola" started with an initial seizure of 80 packages identified at the Cargo City of the international airport in 2022, and allowed the Fiamme Gialle men to stop a "potential" traffic of 63 million MDMA tablets, with a market value of approximately 630 million euros.
The military carried out a "controlled delivery" by following the packages to the first recipient, a company with registered office in Milan but with an operational base in Caronno Pertusella (Varese). Eurojust international cooperation made it possible to launch further and separate investigations in the Netherlands, which led to the identification of a drug storage location, finding 38 boxes containing another 75 kilos of molecules used to refine drugs.
Two Chinese nationals were arrested, and the notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations was served on the legal representative of the Milanese company that imported the shipments into Italy, who is accused of having personally handled all the import operations of the chemical molecules, which he would later resell in Holland.
(Unioneonline/ss)
