Also the ‘Ndrangheta financed the transnational drug trafficking gang that imported drugs from South America: emerges from the ROS investigation which today made it possible to defeat a mafia-type criminal association with 15 precautionary measures issued by the investigating judge at the request of the Salerno Prosecutor’s Office (coordinated by the prosecutor Giuseppe Borrelli). In particular, through one of their men, the Neapolitan Errico D’Ambrosio, was the Alvaro criminal family, the brothers Nicola and Francesco Alvaro, to shell out large sums of money to import and purchase the narcotic substance. According to the investigators, Franco Volpe and Cataldo Esposito coordinated the operations, together with other suspects who were currently untraceable. The intermediation was instead entrusted to Carmine Ferrara and his close collaborator Salvatore Rocco and the Calabrian Fortunato Marafioti. The investigation also made it possible to intercept, in April 2023, over a ton of marijuana hidden in a container that left Canada, specifically from Montreal. Also in this circumstance the drugs landed in the port of Salerno, thanks to an import-export company from Poggiomarino (Naples) of which a man from Boscoreale (Naples), Antonio Malafronte, was found to be co-owner. An Italian-American, Michele Annunziata, was also involved in this deal: according to the ROS, he was the one who organized the transfer of the huge load of marijuana, financed in part by a Neapolitan, Giuseppe Gargiulo. Franco Volpe and one of the wanted suspects were charged with recovering the narcotic in exchange for a sum of money. The so-called minor crimes – theft, receiving stolen goods and threats – committed in Cilento, are contested by the investigators against Franco Volpe and another suspect: Volte, in particular, also had the task of identifying the objectives and providing logistical support to a group of thieves from Puglia, his accomplices, including Michele Campanale.
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