By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Two notorious criminal organizations have formed a powerful partnership and set up a pipeline of lucrative cocaine from South America to Europe. An Italian organization led by the boss of the Mafia Calabrian, 57, Rosario Marando worked side by side with an Albanian group controlling the import, distribution and treatment of the product at the street when he reached customers of the city of Rome.
The entire pipeline was broken yesterday by Europol and the police in Italy, Spain and Albania. 28 The alleged criminals of Italian and Albanian nationality were arrested, including the boss Rosario Marando.
Marando is part of a powerful Ndrangheta clan known for his drug trafficking activities. The clan is from Platì, the Calabria, but has moved its operations to the north of Italy where they settled in Milan, Volpiano and Liguria. From the 2000s, they also extended to Rome.
In 2014, the Court of Cassation acquitted Marando to launder 33 million euros from Euro which would have been earned abductions and drug trafficking by him and his brother Pasquale, who disappeared in 2002 and was known as the Italian Pablo Pablo Escobar.
Albanian brothers
The authorities say that Marando and his three sons collaborated with the Albanian organization led by Arjan Sagajeva, which managed some of the logistics aspects of drug trafficking. The Albanians would have organized the extraction of expeditions from various Spanish and Dutch ports as well as subsequent transport to Italy. They were also responsible for the sales of drugs in the San Basilio region in Rome as well as other parts of the city.
He would have been sagajeva who had helped to set up the pipeline with contacts in Colombia. Italian police say that he has increased such importance in the underground world as as a drug broker, he obtained the same Boss status as Marando.
Investigations show that cocaine sold in Italy has been acquired in South America and transported in containers in ports across Europe. The transport of the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria in Rome would have been facilitated by the Calabriens drug brokers.
The groups are suspected of having treated at least 1,019 kilograms of cocaine and 1,497 kilograms of hashish in 80 traffic operations.
Torture was part of the business
Prosecutors suspect four Italians of having kidnapped a drug trafficker, which caused him physical and psychological damage. The torture inflicted was filmed with a mobile phone, the video widespread subsequently to instill fear, silence and submission within members of the underground world located in Rome.
This complex survey has also highlighted the sophisticated communication methods used to exchange information within the criminal organization. To escape the discovery by the authorities, its members would rely on encrypted messaging via aircraft distributed by an Albanian criminal service provider, which was also arrested yesterday.
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