The Sofia City Court will review Romania’s claim for the extradition of mafia backed drug boss Evelin Banev aka “Brendo”, in order to be tried there .
At the beginning of July, an Italian court sentenced Banev to serve 20 years in the slammer for operating a large-scale cocaine trafficking network connected to the clan Bellocco of the ’Ndrangheta mafia
Banev was arrested on May 16 2012 in an international police operation code-named “Cocaine Kings”, along with 15 other Bulgarians, 12 Italians, one Slovenian, one Romanian, and one Georgian.
According to Interpol and Italian police Banev’s gang allegedly smuggled cocaine in ships into Europe from South America and were arrested in an Anti Mafia drug raid dubbed ‘Magna Charta’ in which six tones of cocaine were confiscated
In October, the Sofia City Court postponed its verdict on the extradition, claiming magistrates needed more information on the case
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