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Police in Italy have broken up a ring of drug traffickers who imported huge quantities of cocaine into the country from South America. In cooperation with law enforcement officers from Spain and the FBI, Italian detectives arrested multiple suspects after a series of raids in Reggio Calabria, Milan, Naples, Bologna and Pescara, the Italian state police said in a statement. During the operation, officers held several people with links to the Morabito-Bruzzanti-Palamara group, which oversees a unit of the notorious Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia. Police issued arrest warrants for 37 suspects alleged to have played key roles in the international trafficking...
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Police in Italy yesterday arrested Marcello Pesce, head of the notorious 'Ndrangheta organised crime gang. The capture of the 52-year-old, who went by the nickname “the Dancer”, was described as a “beautiful” victory in the Italian government’s fight against mafia groups. Pesce, the chief of an organised crime syndicate that controls the majority of the European cocaine market, was detained at a flat in his home town of Rosarno in Calabria. The Italian authorities had been searching for Pesce since 2010, when he was sentenced to a 15-year jail term after being found guilty in absentia of organised crime association....
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Authorities in Southern Italy last week seized cocaine worth an estimated $84 million after traffickers threw packages of the drug into the Mediterranean Sea while travelling to the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro, According to police, officers found 17 waterproof bags containing high-purity cocaine floating in the water attached to buoys, which the smugglers had lobbed overboard, presumably for their associates to retrieve later. It is suspected that the 'Ndrangheta cartel was behind the shipment, which was monitored by customs officials as it made its way to Italy from Brazil – a route popular with traffickers looking to smuggle drugs...
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