Malpensa, July 1, 2024 – Breaking Bad material, which would have made thousands of consumers in search of a chemical high “happy”. And which, instead, was intercepted before ending up in the laboratories of small-time crooked chemists intent on flooding the market with pills.
Checks on some of the shipments (GdF)
Over 6 tons (6,300 kilos) of Chemical “ingredients” to refine ecstasy were stopped at Malpensa by the Guardia di Finanza of Varese. This is the outcome of the “Molecola” operation which, starting from an initial seizure of 80 packages intercepted at the Cargo City of the international airport in 2022, allowed the men of the Fiamme Gialle to crush a “potential” traffic of 63 million MDMA tabletswith a market value of approximately 630 million euros.
After intercepting the cargo, the military executed a “controlled delivery” following the packages to the address of the first recipient, a company with registered office in Milan but with operational base in Caronno Pertusellain the Saronno area.
Eurojust’s international cooperation has enabled further investigations to be launched in the Netherlands, which have led to the identification a drug storage warehouse. Here the investigators recovered 38 boxes, in which another 75 kilos of molecules used to refine drugs were kept. The judicial police investigations in Dutch territory allowed them to arrest two Chinese citizens.
In addition to the two, the notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations was notified to the legal representative of the Milanese company who imported the shipments to Italy. The man is accused of having personally taken care of all the operations for the arrival of the chemical molecules in Italy, which he later resold in Holland.
