“They moved tons of cocaine from South America, they were a real dome.” Vandalized organization of Albanian drug traffickers: 20 arrests

They had direct contact with him South American drug traffickers and they managed to arrive tons of cocaine on board commercial cargo in the main European ports, in particular Antwerp, Rotterdam me Bremen. An international survey conducted by a “Joint investigation team composed of the Central Operational Service of the Central Directorate of Crimes, the Florence Mobile Team, the Dutch Finec and the Central Directorate of Drug Services, with the coordination of Eurojust ed Europol, of the National Antimafia and Antiterrorist Directorate and the Central Directorate of Criminal Police “, gave rise to the maxi-operation named The whites that defeated the “criminal cartel Bello Company, considered leader of Albanian groups specialized in drug trafficking in the continent “and which was headed by a real “Dome” where the strategic guidelines descend from.

The operation led toarrest of 20 people in prison, all of Albanian origin, but in total they are 31 preventive detention measures fixed up. During the investigation they were also seized 5.5 million euros almost 4 tons of cocaine. The accusations against him, for various reasons, are criminal association directed at international drug trafficking, drug detention and trafficking. The arrests involved the Italian cities of Florence, Genoa, Modena, Pisa and Lucca, as well as several foreign countries, including Albania, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, Hungary, and Ecuador.

The Kompania Bello cartel, the police explain, was an organization “in all respects parallel to that of the large South American cartels” and must be considered “the undisputed and highest point of reference for Albanian groups specialized in drug trafficking. Such an important brand, with branches in Italy, Holland, Belgium, Ecuador, Austria, Switzerland, France, Switzerland, France, Norway, Turkey, Germany, that the own brand ‘Bello’ as a guarantee of the quality of the product: “That of the brand in the blocks, almost as a guarantee of the quality of the product, is an absolute and surprising novelty, which arose in five years of research,” he highlighted during the press conference at the bunker hall in Florence. the national anti-mafia prosecutor, Federico Cafiero De Raho.

“Sometimes we are made to think that Albanian criminal organizations are second-rate. The operation The whites It shows, instead, that Albanian criminals have great skills, coming to deal directly with Latin American drug cartels, maintaining stable relationships with them. Furthermore, the investigations revealed the existence of an Albanian criminal superstructure ”, a kind of dome, from which the strategic guidelines descended, explains De Raho. The prosecutor then added that Albanian criminal organizations “operate with an extraordinary takeover in several European countries, with Albanian drug traffickers acting permanently directly in South America and the Netherlands, controlling the departures and arrivals of cocaine shipments in European ports. “especially in Antwerp and Rotterdam”. Investigations also revealed that large sums of money made from cocaine trafficking came from recycling through Chinese companies operating in Holland and England.

Next, De Raho congratulated “the Public Prosecutor of Florence, the protagonist of this operation of a great moment in the fight against drugs, demonstrating his ability to project himself on international territory. And this capacity finds a solid foundation in the effective presence of Eurojust, which connects and coordinates investigations at the European level ”.