Two Dutch Italians from a Groningen hospitality family are suspects in an Italian investigation into coke smuggling through a branch of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. Stefano Bianco (31) in Italy is now serving a sentence for smuggling 7.5 kilos of cocaine.
The judge saw him as a courier for the Camorra and gave him eight years in prison. In November he was arrested at a petrol station just outside Rome. the cocaine was hidden in the dashboard of his Fiat Doblo.
He has not made a statement. He is detained in the Roman Rebibbia prison in a heavy department. His 35-year-old brother Raffaele is suspect in an ongoing investigation by the Italian carabinieri and the judiciary. The Bianco's are sons of the Groningen restaurant owner Luigi "Gigi" Bianco (62), he lives in the Netherlands for 42 years. He has three children and a Dutch woman. They have both Italian and Dutch nationality.