22 arrests for Italy-Albania drug trafficking on the Andria-Cerignola axis: Foggia, the operating center of the international store.
The wide-ranging investigative developments have made it possible to document how two related criminal organizations dedicated to international drug trafficking operated in two distinct areas of northern Bari, one between Cerignola and Foggia and one between Andria and Barletta.
The investigations developed following the murder of Francesco Ferrante, alias Geppetto, which took place in Trani in January 2015, killed with a shot in the head while he was about to close his recreational club. The complex investigations have also made it possible to ascertain how the bloody fact of blood had matured in the world of drugs in which Ferrante tried to impose himself.
To manage the import of the drug from Holland, Germany and Albania was an Albanian citizen who, through his compatriots domiciled in northern Europe, provided the criminal organizations operating on the Italian territory with excellent quality cocaine and heroin, as well as large quantities of marijuana and hashish, weaving a network that also developed in Holland, Germany and England.