A Wide international operation coordinated by the District Anti -Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabrialed by Giuseppe Lombardo and carried out by the men of the State Police of the Central Operational Service and the Reggio Calabria Mobile Squad.
There are 25 foreign citizens recipient of a pre -trial detention order in prison and 43 investigated in a state of freedomfor a total of 68 subjects accused of being part of a International network of migrant traffickers Articulated on four perfectly organized associations to treat all the phases of the crossing of illegal immigrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route, from the ports of Türkiye to the coasts of the Reggina province.
More than thirty reconstructed landings by the magistrates Reggio and the State Police, between 2017 and 2022, for a total of two thousand illegal migrants about that landed on the coasts of the national territory On board sailing boats crammed with the inverting, for a turnover in the order of ten million euros estimated thanks to the analysis of hundreds of foreign financial transactions on foreign countries.
Thanks to the coordination of the National Anti -Mafia Directorate, of Eurojust, Interpol, European and Service for International Police Cooperation, they were Identified smugglers and garments of criminal organizations, all citizens of Georgia, Ukraine, Türkiye and Moldova.
The seizure of three million and three hundred thousand euros also ordered.