Increasing the weight and volume of cocaine and giving it a highly crystalline appearance, a guarantee of a superior quality drug. In Locride, in Sant’Agata del Bianco, obviously with the consent of one or more ‘Ndrangheta clans, the approximately 200 kilos of boric acid found and seized by the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Bianco inside an anonymous and apparently uninhabited building, located in a peripheral area of the hilly town of Reggio Calabria, would have been used for this purpose. A house transformed into a clandestine cocaine refinery linked to a consolidated network having relations with members of some gang rooted in the area south of Locride.
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