Drug trafficking between Italy and Albania: the megablitz is triggered, 14 arrests. More than two thousand kilos seized 14 arrests made by Dia, including nine Italians. The Apulian underworld imported cocaine and heroin from Albania and then sold it to other organizations in the South
More than two tons of drugs seized, for a value of 15 million euros and 14 arrests, made by the Anti- Mafia Investigation Directorate , which has broken up an international traffic of drugs - cocaine, marijuana and heroin - between Italy and Albania ; nine Italians in handcuffs and five Albanians, following a long investigation that began in May six years ago, in 2016. In the blitz against the Italian-Albanian narcos , the investigators seized seven million single doses.
Complex investigation The operation, already in 2018, had disarticulated two powerful and distinct criminal organizations, operating in the Bari area with ramifications in Albania, but also in other regions of southern Italy, Sicily, Campania, Calabria and Abruzzo which imported drugs from Albania, by sea using equipped boats and the landing took place in close synergy with the Apulian criminal organizations.
Albania-Apulia connection Precisely in the Carrassi district of Bari, the DIA has located a warehouse for the storage of drugs and identified an Albanian, at the head of one of the two criminal organizations capable of making use of Italian multiple offenders, some of whom have already been convicted of mafia-type association. The complex investigations, carried out with the aid of telephone interceptions, environmental interceptions, video recordings and observation, stalking and control services, had made it possible, among other things, to arrest at sea, in Polignano, two smugglers from Albania with over one ton of drugs, an Italian courier with over a thousand kilos of marijuana.
