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Daily Archives: April 26th, 2013

'NDRANGHETA: NARCOTRAFFICANTE LATITANTE ARRESTATO IN COLOMBIA

A mafia capo  considered a powerful force in the ‘Ndrangheta families of drug traffickers who lead the international trafficking of cocaine was caught on Friday in Medellin, Colombia after three years on the run

 
 Drug boss  Domenico Trimboli allegedly arranged cocaine shipments of two to three thousand kilos at a time to Italy and Europe, say Italian authorities whom dragged away the accused in handcuffs. Reports Ansa News
 
Trimboli is one of the best-known brokers in the cocaine business who enjoyed great prestige among Colombian criminals for never skipping a payment to local cartel suppliers who produced the product say Anti-mafia prosecutors.
 
The ‘Ndrangheta is Italy’s richest mafia because of its control of the European cocaine trade.It has spread from its base in Calabria to invest its drug money in the rich northern Italian economy and has big offshoots in northern Europe, Canada and Australia
 
The ‘Ndrangheta boss Domenico Trimboli faces a 12-year sentence for drug crimes in Italy and abroad.