The Reggio Calabria Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finance and officials of the local office of the Customs Agency and the Monopolies seized another large load of narcotics, identifying a container from Canada carrying timber destined for in which a batch of marijuana for a total weight of 1,220 kilograms. The Guardia di Finanza specified that the batch of drugs seized, once placed on the market, could have yielded to criminal organizations about 1.8 million euros. From the beginning of this year in the Calabrian port have so far been seized a total of almost 2.74 tons of cocaine.

Meanwhile, today the soldiers of the I.C.O. central service and the provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza of Catanzaro have given execution of an order, issued by the GIP of the Court of Catanzaro at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, with who was ordered to be remanded in prison in the against nine subjects accused in various ways of having promoted, directed, financed, organized and carried out intense traffic international drug market from South America. One of the accusations is of having organized trafficking from the territory mainly from Peru, Colombia and the Brazil, for the importation of concealed cocaine into Europe in containers loaded on merchant ships destined for Northern European ports (mainly Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp) and national (Gioia Tauro, Livorno, Civitavecchia, Genoa and Trieste), where men of the association able to organize teams of exfiltrators from the port area. In addition The organization allegedly carried out imports of cocaine via through Frankfurt Airport and with the shipment, by courier, of liquid cocaine hidden inside the juice of moringa, concealed by soaking the cardboard boxes with narcotics containing fruit from Colombia.