advertisement
Fri, Feb 10 2012
Italian police smash Bulgarian-Moroccan drug ring
Cocaine
Police in Italy have neutralised a Bulgarian-Moroccan drug ring involved in drug smuggling through Spain en route to Italy and then subsequent shipments to Austria and France, the Bulgarian news agency BTA has reported, citing Italian media on August 5 2009.
Four people were arrested from the mounted operation, two of them Bulgarians. The origin of the drugs, primarily cocaine and hash came from Morocco, through Spain to Italy, Austria and France. One of the two Bulgarians resided in Milan, where he was arrested, whereas the other one - in the Valdinievole region, the reports say.
Italian media has described the two Bulgarians as the ringleaders of the organisation, and has labelled them as "very dangerous criminals".
Furthermore, Italian media have said that one of the Bulgarians was a former professional wrestler, and that he was "successful" in the 80's in Japan as a sumo wrestler. There are no further details disclosed regarding their identity, however.
Italian authorities are still on the heels of three other Moroccans who reportedly are 'on the run'. The total criminal ring is believed to consist of as many as 20 individuals.
Once the drugs found themselves on the Italian market, they were sold predominantly in Lombardia, Liguria and Tuscany. Eight kg of cocaine and 60 kg hash were seized, with an estimated market value of 360 000 and 180 000 a kg respectively.
Furthermore, the police seized 110 000 euro as well as forged banknotes worth in excess of 20 000 euro.
Four people were arrested from the mounted operation, two of them Bulgarians. The origin of the drugs, primarily cocaine and hash came from Morocco, through Spain to Italy, Austria and France. One of the two Bulgarians resided in Milan, where he was arrested, whereas the other one - in the Valdinievole region, the reports say.
Italian media has described the two Bulgarians as the ringleaders of the organisation, and has labelled them as "very dangerous criminals".
Furthermore, Italian media have said that one of the Bulgarians was a former professional wrestler, and that he was "successful" in the 80's in Japan as a sumo wrestler. There are no further details disclosed regarding their identity, however.
Italian authorities are still on the heels of three other Moroccans who reportedly are 'on the run'. The total criminal ring is believed to consist of as many as 20 individuals.
Once the drugs found themselves on the Italian market, they were sold predominantly in Lombardia, Liguria and Tuscany. Eight kg of cocaine and 60 kg hash were seized, with an estimated market value of 360 000 and 180 000 a kg respectively.
Furthermore, the police seized 110 000 euro as well as forged banknotes worth in excess of 20 000 euro.
-
Print
-
Send via email
- Translate to
-
Share:
Comments
To post comments, please, Login or Register.
Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.
Plovdiv police arrest 21 people at a Halloween party
The 21 arrested were aged between 16 and 24 and were from Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna and Dimitrovgrad. They were found in possession of marijuana, ecstasy and hash.
Bulgarian arrested in Germany with 63kg of heroin worth 1.5 million euro
The 22-year-old drug smuggler who says he did not know about the drugs is facing more than 10 years in jail
Bulgarian - Greek drug ring busted
Greek police busted a Bulgarian-Greek drug ring when they found 500 kg of cocaine. Five people have been arrested, Greek newspapers said.
Authorities seize 714 litres of liquid cocaine in 1020 wine bottles in Varna
The seizure followed a six-month tracking operation by Bulgarian authorities and US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Bulgarian drug mule arrested in Vienna with 3kg of cocaine
She arrived from Brazil and was supposed to get the cocaine, worth one million leva, to Sofia in exchange for 3500 euro
Heroin worth two million leva confiscated at Kapitan Andreevo
More than 23kg of herion was confiscated at Kapitan Andreevo (in the municipality of Svilengrad in southern Bulgaria) during a meticulous search by frontier police. The drugs were apprehended from a vehicle with a Dutch registration travelling from Turkey to Holland.
More in this category
Auction reveals Ceausescu’s personal age of plenty
Iranian silver-plated pigeons, African leopard skins and a Chinese bronze yak were among the 70 items sold in an auction of gifts presented to Romania’s former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena.
EC praises airports for progress in dealing with extreme weather
Airports were also showing signs of better co-ordination and providing passengers with accurate real-time information, compared to previous period of travel disruption, transport commissioner Siim Kallas said.
Hungary's PM condemns international critics amid economic uncertainty
Viktor Orban defends government's record, new constitution in state-of-the-nation address as he slams European Commission.
Polish PM, digitalisation minister hold public debates on ACTA ratification
PM Donald Tusk invited authors, NGOs, experts and bloggers to a debate on the ACTA copyright agreement, but several key organisations, including the Helsinki Foundation, rejected the invitation claiming that the talks will likely offer no opportunity to discuss concrete issues.
Protesters clash in Budapest as controversial theatre director takes stage
'Dirty Jews' and 'Dirty Nazis' were the most popular chants when two groups clashed in front of Új Színház (New Theatre)
© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.
Web Design by RIZN
Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted.
Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only
with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site.
Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com.
Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments.
The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the
price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes,
and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.
- Economedia Group portfolio:
- In Bulgarian:
-
Business:
Капитал,
Кариери,
Пазари,
Ho Re Mag,
Регал,
Градът.bg,
Одит,
Foton.bg,
Online shop
- News: Дневник, Европа, Foreign Policy - България
- IT: IDG.BG, Computerworld, PC World, CIO, Networkworld
- Entertainment: Бакхус
-
In English:
The Sofia Echo
Stefcho,
I'll give you one thing: You people ate twice the men we are..... literally!
Fat f..cks...
Stefcho Stefcho....
The US is flushing down the world economy, with its greed and duplicity.
Wake up and take some responsibility for what the rest of us are going through.... tricking whole countries with phony "financial products" - a con job of unimaginable proportions, that no criminal will ever rival, to be sure....
Sure, you've got cops policing you, while the head of NASDAQ was common crook - Mr.Medoff!
Never has anything like that happen in BG!
When not busy robbing you blind, the [...]
Read the full comment US is a police State and they guard you people like sheep.
They check your documents there for a simple drink in a bar, if you look anything under 60.
The cops are gods.
The IRS has the absolute power over your lives.
There is a law against pretty much everything, including silly things like topless chicks on the beach.
Flirting at work is punishable by law.
They control your medias and publishing like hawks for any illegal "indecency" - you are the Iran of the Christian world!
Your Dollar is worthless and it finally is beginning to reflect what you really are - a Third World Country!
In 20 years the US will be basically Mexico...
Where do they get their figures from?
I'm glad that I don't live near that market. 360,000 for a kilo of cocaine - try dividing by six. 180,000 for a kilo of hash - try dividing thirty. I presume that the authorities release these figures to impress the public, all they actually do is make themselves look like idiots.
I"m sorry for the double post people
Valeri, have you been smoking crack? The USA is "one big criminal outfit" how do you figure that? Yes we have a drug problem here but I don't understand how one has anything to do with the other. You Bulgarians are very good at pointing the finger at anyone else to obsolve yourselfs from any wrong doing. Bulgaria should take a good look at itself before pointing the finger at the USA in this case anyway. THis is a European operation not an American one, I love the way you Bulgarians do this, you screw up your own country by [...]
Read the full comment now following the laws, your police are corrupt and it's a running joke that 20lv will get you out of anything in BG and you turn around and blame the US, come on, I've seen your post in the past, your smarter then that. I'm not at all saying the US is perfect, it is not but if we get caught here with this kind of weight in drugs, we are going to jail for a long time, we don't have a system like yours where you can drag it out for years and years and blame poverty or poor leadership. We do a crime, we do the time, not like in BG where if you know the right people you don't do a day in jail and don't deny this, you know it's true. I would be very careful about blaming the US for all your problems since if not for the US thousands of Bulgarians would be jobless and all the American dollars that are sent to Bulgaria help to keep this country running even in the sad shape it is already in, Bulgarians need to take some pride in there country and do what is right for your childrens generation. I see Bulgaria in 20 yrs a very sad place and it's a shame because it has so much potential and wonderful people.
If you read It figures post he is right, we crack down on any criminal activity as best we can and the criminals do go to jail and not just get a slap on the wrist. Bulgaria should try it, maybe the mentality would change. The world don't own Bulgaria anything, Bulgaria needs to get itself out of all the problems it is in, not the EU not America. Again, look in the mirror. Progress comes from within.
This comment has been removed by the moderator because it contained
The USA is one big criminal outfit itself.
We in BG couldn't dream of such achievement in fraud and theft, as America showed the world in the last few years.
Whole countries (Iceland being the most obvious) were robbed blind and absolutely broke, after being foolish enough to invest their money with those American financial tricksters, and Bulgaria may yet suffer from that world disaster...
Nothing we in Bulgaria steal, take, or sell, can possibly come close to what the EU will suffer from, courtesy your heros in the US... [...]
Read the full comment
You sound German, and I am sure you get hard nipples from police and uniforms, but the fact is that you with your racist thinking are focusing on BG while the US robbed ALL of your banks in one stroke!
it seems the eurozone has to do all the police work, since BG can't or won't in this country to protect the common BG citizen. Italy and Spain are scapegoat countries for bulgarians. try that crap in the germany and UK and see what happens. Germans and irish would like to follow far eastern work and principle mentality. One can see it those respective workforce economies. But in BG, its a haven for criminial productions and re-productions.
Does this mean anything. NOT unless this is news on every front page cover of those respective countries paper [...]
Read the full comment to show they are serious about criminal crackdowns, just like the USA(which currently leads us because they are number 1 on criminal crackdowns!).