From the wholesale import of cocaine, to the drug dealing in the squares: thus two distinct criminal organizations, with the use of the mafia method, permanently supplied the cocaine market in the Reggio and Catania. Today’s investigation, carried out synergistically by the police, carabinieri and finance guard, with the coordination of the DDA prosecutor FF, Giuseppe Lombardo, has pulled the final ranks of a previous 2024 operation against characters indicated as close to the gangs of ‘ndrangheta of the “avalanche”where dominates The illegal business is the “family” Ficara-Latellaone of the most active in the mafia war that left on the ground of Reggio Calabria, between 1985 and 1991, about a thousand killed deaths, slaughter exploded after the breakdown of consolidated criminal balances with the murder, which took place on 10 October 1985, of the boss Paolo De Stefano.
Prosecutor, Police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza have obtained the arrests for 54 people from the investigating judge of Reggio Calabria, and the registration in the register of suspects for another 28who respond in a state of freedom. According to the investigators, the arrested and their accomplices “ordered any quality of drugs at any time for potential buyers: cocaine, crack, hashish and marijuana”.
A second branch of the criminal group, on the other hand, operated in the international drug trafficking, with bases in Ecuador, Spain, Germany, Holland and Belgium, exploiting the port of Gioia Tauro as a strategic hub. “A criminal partnership – the investigators say – well cohesive and organized, also founded on close family ties, which had as its operational and strategic base the home of its boss, located in an Aspromontan municipality”, where he was restricted under house arrest. In the operation 117 kg of cocaine were seized, hidden inside a gallericulated just released from the port of Gioia Tauro, and 483,000 euros in cash, hidden on the storage site used by the clans, identified in Reggio Calabria, and assets for 1.5 million euros.