'Italian 'Ndrangheta suspect also worked through the Netherlands'

Police are linking Palamara to the preparation of cocaine shipments from Colombia to Italy. In the 'Ndrangetha, he is counted as part of the Morabito clan, but he also worked for other clans, who entrusted him to make deals with cocaine suppliers in South America. In Italy, the detectives used the nickname "super-broker" for him.

He mainly worked at the port of Livorno, according to the police. There, the police seized cocaine that had been delivered in a series of refrigerated containers.

The Florence prosecutor's office was looking for him for that case. In Catanzaro, the “Molo 13” investigation was conducted into a cocaine line that ran through the Netherlands.

Messages made readable by the police, possibly from Sky-ECC or EncroChat, play a role in the evidence.

The Morabito clan in Italy has a firm grip on the cocaine trade in Milan and Turin, among other things. This summer, Rocco Morabito was extradited from Brazil in a major cocaine trafficking investigation.