Maxi anti-drug operation in Trento, but which also involved the Bergamo area with several arrests. Precautionary measures against 38 suspects and seizures of over 10 million euros. It is the outcome of an operation conducted by the financiers of the Provincial Command of Trento who carried out an order from the investigating judge of the Court of Trento at the request of the local Dda.
27 people ended up in prison and 11 with residence orders. The precautionary measures, carried out in the provinces of Trento, Turin, Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Bolzano, Verona, Pavia, Cremona and Livorno, were issued at the end of a detailed and complex investigation activity, started in December 2021 and conducted from the Gico of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Trento.
The investigation involves 38 subjects, of which 36 of foreign nationality (Albanians, Tunisians, Moroccans and Portuguese), held responsible in various capacities for having participated or collaborated within two complex criminal associations which, interconnected with each other, were dedicated to the trafficking of narcotic substances (cocaine, hashish, marijuana and heroin), coming from other Italian regions and destined almost entirely for Trentino.
The investigations originate from previous judicial police investigations and constant monitoring of the area, following which possible illicit conduct emerged linked to the continuity of relationships between some previous suspects. Subsequent investigations led to the identification of the main customers and suppliers of the narcotic substance, to the identification of the dense network of participants of the two criminal groups and to the complete reconstruction of their operations. The gangs, following agreements between compatriots living in other regions, sent the narcotic substance to the Trentino area through couriers who used specially modified cars equipped with ingenious double bottoms.
Subsequently, the suspects who operated in the provincial territory, a total of 26 with various roles and all subject to arrest orders, proceeded, inside some rented apartments, to cut and package the drugs, also using paprika to camouflage them. the smell. The doses thus composed were hidden (buried) along the banks of rivers or inside a public park for subsequent transfer to final consumers.
The reconstruction of the criminal operations of the two investigated groups and of the other collaborators was also carried out from an economic and patrimonial point of view.
In fact, a significant availability of cash emerged, revealed by the numerous immediate payments or upon delivery of the purchased drugs, as well as by the seizures of significant quantities of money.
By analyzing the quantities purchased, the purchase prices, the cuts of the pure substance (3 kg of substance to be marketed were obtained from 1 kg of cocaine), the doses obtainable per kilogram (equal to approximately 5000 doses for 1 kg of cut cocaine), the average sale price per retail dose, the illicit profit that the gangs obtained from drug trafficking was then quantified, determined to be over 10 million euros. Upon disposition of the judicial authority, these illicit profits were therefore subject to preventive seizure aimed at confiscation for equivalent.
The execution of the provisions of the judicial authority, which required the use of approximately 100 soldiers from various territorial departments of the Guardia di Finanza, in addition to guaranteeing the application of personal precautionary measures, made it possible to seize the active balances of the current accounts and financial resources of the suspects.
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