Costa Rica rolls mafia gang

Police in Costa Rica have arrested seven suspected members of a drug gang.

A special anti - mafia unit of the Italian justice is long engaged with the case. The headquarters of this branch of the Ndrangheta ( Calabrian mafia) was located in a pizzeria in New York. The owner, Gregorio Gigliotti was already detained in March. Gigliotti had a " coordinator " between Italy, the USA and Costa Rica traveled to regulate the cocaine smuggling.

This man has been arrested in Italy . The Italian authorities consider that especially this kind of lucrative cocaine business to the Ndrangheta in a position to outflank the Sicilian Cosa Nostra colleagues . The gang smuggled cocaine from the Central American country under a cloak of companies that exported pineapples and cassava , reported the Costa Rican Prosecutor Jorge Chavarría.