Reuters, 04/12 17:03 CET
By Steve Scherer
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police
arrested nine people and seized 130 kilos (287 pounds) of cocaine,
smashing a major smuggling ring run by the Calabrian mafia that had
monopolised sales of the drug in Venice, finance police said on Friday.
Among those arrested were three men suspected of being
members of the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia, a Colombian and two
Albanians who ran a restaurant in the heart of canal-lined Venice that
they used to sell drugs.
“The ‘Ndrangheta had monopolised the cocaine market in
Venice,” Nicola Sibilia, a colonel in the finance police, told Reuters
in a telephone interview.
As one of the main importers of cocaine to Europe from
South America, the ‘Ndrangheta has eclipsed the Sicilian Mafia as
Italy’s most powerful organised crime group, investigators say.
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