Over 80 kilos of pure cocaine, destined for drug dealing in northern Italy, were seized by the Turin Financial Police. The Fiamme Gialle arrested a 52-year-old Albanian: he was found in possession of the narcotic to be sold in Lombardy and Piedmont.

When he was stopped, he was in his car in Brignano Gera d'Adda in the province of Bergamo, he immediately appeared agitated and the soldiers had searched the car and found cocaine. With further checks, 74 blocks of the same substance were recovered, with a total weight of over 80 kg, they were hidden inside two of the man's cars, equipped with special double bottoms, parked inside garages in the building where he lived, as well as cash for around 35 thousand euros, kept inside his home.

The drug, if put on the retail market, could have generated illicit revenues of at least 8 million euros.

(Unioneonline/ss)