Catanzaro. Italy. A devastating drug-busting-blitz by Italian and Brazilian authorities has crushed an organized crime network dedicated to international drug trafficking.
Acting on orders of anti -mafia magistrates in Rome and Reggio Calabria,finance police from the command of Catanzaro in conjunction with Brazilian federal agents arrested 44 alleged affiliates of a smuggling syndicate dedicated to drug trafficking, and seized a huge shipment of cocaine
Prosecutors say police seized two tons of pure cocaine as part of a two year probe into a drug trafficking network consisting of a combination of Italian and South American criminals
The arrested are accused of shipping and smuggling drugs from South America (Brazil , Peru, Ecuador, Colombia) to European ports
