A report released by the police, published on the website of the Bologna Today newspaper, states that the anti-drug operation was coordinated by the Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Bologna, capital of the northern region of Emilia-Romagna, with the participation of police officers from Bologna, Rimini, Treviso and Verona.

Among those arrested were four Albanian nationals and one Tunisian, based in this European nation, who introduced from the Netherlands at least 41.5 kilograms of cocaine, as well as 76.5 kilograms of marijuana and 280 kilograms of hashish, with an estimated value of five million euros, according to the volumes documented.

Police investigators managed to reconstruct the criminal group’s activity, which made possible the granting of prison sentences against those involved in these activities, on charges of association for illicit drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons, among other crimes, adds the source.

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