(AGI) - Trento, 7 Nov - The carabinieri have executed 60 arrest warrants issued by the Trento judge in connection with the international trafficking of drugs between South America and Italy. The 60 orders were executed in Trentino, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Calabria and Sardinia, while around ten drug traffickers were arrested in Spain and Argentina. In these countries, the organisations' refineries and storehouses, providing the whole of Europe with cocaine, hidden in stores of charcoal, were identified, Thanks to international cooperation on the part of the police and magistrates in Argentina and Spain, the forensic police and the Drugs Squad managed to seize over 3000 kg of cocaine and 110,000 ecstasy pills, while around 40 drug traffickers were arrested during the investigation carried out abroad. A further 30 people had been arrested by the ROS in the first phase of Operation Trabjo, conducted in Europe and South America. Having dismantled the refineries and the commercial networks covering the operation, the police and the Republic Prosecutor of Trento identified the laundering channels and the use of income, managed by financial and professional institutions. Millions of euros, boats and luxury cars have been seized. Links were established with the 'ndrangheta's organised gangs and new routes for the import of drugs into Europe were and reconstructed Cooperation by the international legal systems secured by the Antimafia National Prosecution Department and the investigations by the Carabinieri in a joint-team with Spain and Argentina were shown to be decisive in beating drugs trafficking. (AGI) -
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 11:54 
