Mafia, extortion and drug trafficking, 21 arrests from Catania to Milan

Drugs traded by sea and recovered ashore with complex systems to avoid being intercepted. The mafia managed the traffic from Catania but it expanded from Puglia to Lombardy.
Carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania are carrying out an order of precautionary custody against 21 people, under investigation for mafia association, traffic and dealing of drugs, extortion and serious injuries, with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method. Therefore, there was not only drugs but all the traditional activities of the Cosa Nostra families among those crimes at the center of the investigation. Operation 'Iddu' started at dawn.
The investigation made it possible to outline the position held by the apical investigators of Benedetto La Motta, 62, referent for the Riposto area of ​​the Cosa Nostra family of Santapaola-Ercolano