Fanpage.it learns from qualified sources, have reconstructed " contributions" of money also from Naples and monitored relationships with Calabrian criminals, believed to be linked to the 'Ndrangheta, and even with criminals stationed in Holland. Among the major clients, however, was Antonio Gala's group : Neapolitan of origin, raised in the shadow of the Marano drug holding companies but resident in Rome for years, he is considered one of the main drug trafficking brokers at an international level.


Who is the international broker Antonio Gala
Gala, 43, is currently a fugitive, wanted following a detention order signed in 2020 by the Court of Naples for a different investigation, again for drug crimes. But he is an old acquaintance of the police: in 2002, when he was just 19 years old, he had been among the recipients of a precautionary custody order in the "Valentino" operation, together with 27 other people.

Grandson of Giuseppe Gala, a leading exponent of the Marano Camorra since the 1990s (first with the Nuvoletta clan and later with the Polverino), Antonio Gala is considered linked to the Orlando group, albeit with considerable autonomy which would allow him to deal with the big ones cargoes of drugs from Spain and Colombia as brokers and with the possibility of selling the drugs to multiple criminal groups.

The "Capogna method"
After his release from prison in 2014, the 43-year-old moved permanently to Rome where, based in Tor Pignattara, he allegedly managed drug trafficking together with Fabrizio Capogna (also among the recipients of the order), the creator of what he investigators define the "Capogna method": code words, appointments in pre-established places, telephones that cannot be intercepted, no direct contact with those handling drugs and a large group of rental vehicles for the transport of drugs.

The foreign diplomatic drug courier
In this case the organization also made use of a vehicle that was usually unsuspected, but above all untouchable: a car with a diplomatic license plate from the Yemen consulate , used by a high-ranking diplomat to act as a drug courier. The man, however, cannot be prosecuted by the Italian authorities because he enjoys diplomatic immunity.