Cigarette smuggling from Libya on Navy ships: four soldiers on trial

The judgment against Marco Corbisiero, a Navy officer who was arrested on May 11 for cigarette trafficking smuggling from Libya to Italy on the ships of the Navy. Prosecutors Giuseppe De Nozza me Alfredo Manco requested and obtained immediate sentence for Corbisiero and 3 other defendants: it is about Robert Castiglione, Antonio Filogamo and Antonio Moscow. For the four soldiers, the accusation is of having detained, transported and introduced them in Italy 690 kilograms of smuggled cigarettes, destined for sale to other soldiers. A point made worse by the fact that the blondes had been transported from Libya aboard the military ship Caprera committed between March and July 2018 in Libyan waters in support of the local coast guard with the operation “Safe seaAnd in the story, although it was never traced by the Italian authorities, there is also the higher of the Libyan coast guard Hamza I Abulad: he would be the one to supply cigarettes and packets of Cialis to Corbisiero in exchange for the exclusive management of the spare parts that the Italian Navy bought to repair the patrol boats Libyans based on a close agreement between the two countries to limit the migratory flow to Italy.

Until the arrival of Corbisiero il Libya, the Small port could count on a large supplier market, so the Italian official made sure that the company “Altikka for Service”Attributable to Hamza became the only interlocutor of the armed forces: a monopolistic management that according to Brindisi Prosecutor it had caused the prices of supplies to rise by as much as 40 percent. And thanks to this price increase, Corbisiero was able to guarantee the arrival of cigarettes and other assets that had nothing to do with the Italian mission in Libya. And so, on the nights when the ship was moored in the port of Tripoli, a part of the crew carried tons of cigarettes thinking of staying in the dark commander and the guardhouse.

The system exploded when in July 2018 Caprera boat He returned to Italy and the commander warned him Financial police that smuggled cigarettes were being unloaded. The financiers, led by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gargano, intervened by confiscating the cargo and launching a series of investigations that revealed how the collection of cigarettes Libya was a practice already in vogue even among crews of other naval units that had alternated in the waters Libyans. And even more details have emerged from those investigations. sensational, such as the repairs of weapons by the Libyan armed forces that the Italian military allegedly carried out in violation of theembargo international. Without realizing that he was being listened to by the financiers, in fact, Corbisiero revealed to a colleague how the system worked: “Everything is black stuff,” he says. Then he adds: “Besides that, we did the repair into the arms of the Libyans that there is an embargo … if this comes out, it is a casino… So we went to mount weapons in navi“. A story published by Done and in which the Navy never responded or offered alternative explanations.