For two years, 5.3 tonnes of drugs from Albania went to Italy

Full of 5.3 tonnes of marijuana off the Albanian coast has been trafficked to the Portuguese coast for almost two years. Guardia di Financa has published the video operation where powerful gomones loaded with drugs from Albania dropped them off the coast of Bar.

Eight powerful burmons have been seized during the investigation, meanwhile today's arrest warrants for 20 persons among them Albanians have been executed.

“Operation estimates have made it white that this criminal group owned a large drug and weapons traffic from the Albanian coast to those Italians that they performed by transcoceanic gomones with powerful engines that enabled them to transport large quantities of the marijuana” is said in the Guardia di Financa communique.

Italian detainees belong to the Mafia clan “Bar's Striscigo”, while Albanian citizens according to Italian authorities are accused of producing narcotics, extortion, threat and violent extortion, illegal possession of weapons.

Italian authorities have placed under the selection and goods of arrested persons worth 1m euros. Six luxury vehicles and 27 bank accounts have been seized. . According to Italian authorities, weapons were used to exercise control of drug trafficking on the territory of the province of Bar.