Major drug gang rolled in Italy

Major drug gang rolled in Italy

World February 16, 2017 15:03

rome - Italian police have rounded up an international drug gang that wanted to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Italy for 1.6 billion euros. Police arrested 68 people.

The gang had eight tons of drugs on a banana plantation stored near the Colombian port Turbo to ship to Europe. In the port city of Livorno was, however, a shipment of 63 kilos of pure cocaine in a shipment of bananas intercepted by the police.

The gang consisted of members of the notorious' Ndrangheta mafia from Calabria. Italian police worked with colleagues in Britain and Colombia.

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