'Ndrangheta, 24 arrests for international drug trafficking

(Adnkronos) - Two hundred soldiers of the provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria and Scico, under the coordination of the Dda Reggina directed by prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri, carried out in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Catania, Messina, Vibo Valentia, Salerno, Milan and Pavia - restrictive measures of personal freedom, issued by the Gip Section of the Court of Reggio Calabria, against 24 subjects (15 in prison and 9 under house arrest) involved in an international trafficking of substances narcotics orchestrated by the Bellocco clan

The activity constitutes the development of a previous operation - called "Magma".

The criminal group, which used encrypted cell phones or public telephone booths to communicate, interfaced with different organizations and it would have been discovered that the organization was able to bring large consignments of cocaine from Brazil, stored in Switzerland