BALKANS, THE NEW FRONTIER OF 'NDRANGHETA DRUG TRAFFICKING
03/26/2024 This is what emerges from the latest investigation conducted by the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia District Directorate which stopped trafficking in narcotic substances destined for European markets
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by Raffaele Tricoli

New supply channels. And new drug trafficking routes: no longer (and not only) the warm shelters of the South American countries, but the Balkans with Albania in particular. The Calabrian 'ndrangheta does not loosen its grip on international traffic. And when it comes to dirty business there are no borders. This is what emerges from the latest investigation conducted by the Catanzaro District Anti-Mafia Directorate which stopped, this morning at dawn, trafficking in narcotic substances destined for European markets. The network which, from the Vibonese area, organized the transfer of large quantities of cocaine, heroin, hashish and marijuana from Albania to transfer it not only to Northern Italy but also to nearby Sicily, is under attack, demonstrating the managerial supremacy of the drug market assumed by Calabrian mafia on an international level.

11 people were arrested and 18 were investigated at the end of a blitz which involved the elite units of the Carabinieri. The investigation, according to what has been leaked, represents the natural continuation of a much broader and more complex anti-Ndrangheta activity, which in recent months has dealt a very severe blow to the Vibonese gangs: the Maestrale-Carthago investigation. In particular, the 'ndrine of Mileto and Zungri, historically strongholds of criminal power attributed to the powerful underworld families of the central area of ??Calabria, ended up at the center of the investigations conducted by the investigative unit of the provincial Carabinieri command. These are the people who ended up in handcuffs: Giuseppe Accorinti, “Peppone”, from Zungri; Salvatore Ascone, from Limbadi; Francesco Barbieri, from San Calogero; Angelo Bartone, from Mileto; Cono Rocco Fusca, by Cessaniti; Armando Galati, from Mileto; Domenico Galati, from Mileto; Michele Galati, from Mileto; Michele Silvano Mazzeo, “Stallone”, from Mileto; Giuseppe Navarra, from Rombiolo; Valerio Navarra, from Pernocari di Rombiolo. The suspects are Rocco Arena; Rocco Ascone; Bruno Chaplain; Francesco Mangone, Saverio Maesano; Laurentiu Gheorghe Nicolae; Simone Rettura.
Among the people in prison also Salvatore Ascone, who ended up on trial for the murder of Maria Chindamo, the businesswoman from Laureana di Borrello who disappeared at the age of just 44, while she was inside land owned by her in Limbadi, in the Vibo area. According to the repentants, she was murdered and her body fed to the pigs because she opposed the attempt by the Ascones - who the investigators believe to be closely linked to the Mancuso family of Limbadi - to take possession of her land.

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