The Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Trieste, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate (Dda) of the Court of Trieste, has seized 4.3 tons of cocaine and is carrying out precautionary measures against 38 people in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia , Bulgaria, Holland and Colombia, all accused of international drug trafficking.
Almost 2 million euros in cash were also seized.
After the extradition to the United States of "Otoniel", born Dario Antonio Usuga David, head of the feared and powerful criminal organization of the "Gulf Clan", today's operation inflicts another blow to the most important group of narcos Colombians.
The investigations, which continued for more than a year and began with the cooperation of the Colombian judiciary and police, with the US Homeland Security Investigations Agency, have rebuilt the dense network of relationships between South American cocaine producers and buyers in Italy and abroad. Europe, belonging to well-known organized crime contexts operating in Veneto, Lombardy, Lazio and Calabria. Important brokers and wholesalers and various transport workers were identified, all subject to the restrictive measures. Also employed "undercover" agents, who infiltrated the organization by pretending to manage the logistic part of the traffic.
The collection of evidence was made possible through 19 consecutive "controlled deliveries", developed between May 2021 and May 2022, thanks to which important mediators in the world drug trafficking system and a large number of carriers operating in Italy and all over the world were identified. 'abroad.
(Unioneonline / vl)