He will have to serve a sentence of 4 years and 2 months in prison. It is the one negotiated by the fifty-nine-year-old RD, the lorry driver arrested on 20 October 2022 at the Novara Est toll booth, where the traffic police had seized almost 40 kilos of cocaine, worth around 3 million euros, hidden in the empty space of a tanker used for the transport of milk. The sentence for international drug trafficking is final in these days: the appeal presented to the Supreme Court by the defense, which spoke of “lack of motivation regarding the steps relating to the calculation of the sentence”, was useless. The driver LT, a forty-year-old, was also arrested with the accused and, having been judged in summary form, he received 6 years of imprisonment: he appealed.
The two couriers had stumbled upon a random check near the toll booth along the A4 Turin-Milan motorway. What attracted the attention of the police was an articulated lorry consisting of a tractor and a tank. There were two Italians on board: according to the documents the truck had loaded milk in the Netherlands and was headed for the province of Parma. However, one detail appeared strange: the tank was only partially loaded. An anomalous circumstance given the transport and management costs. Furthermore, one compartment of the tank, although sealed, was devoid of any contents, and furthermore the truck driver had some precedent. Hence the decision to delve deeper. And the suspicions were then confirmed: two bags with 37 blocks of narcotic substance, for a total of around 40 kilos, were recovered from the empty compartment. Upon arrival and destination, and then sale on the market, it would have made it possible to earn over 3 million euros. That load was probably part of an international drug dealing activity, which the police forces in other provinces are investigating.
