The financiers of the Provincial Commands of Pavia and Milan together with soldiers of the SCICO of Rome are implementing measures delegated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Milan, against persons suspected of belonging to a criminal association aimed at drug trafficking, aggravated by mafia method, fictitious registration of assets, illegal possession and carrying of weapons.
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In particular, the Fiamme Gialle are carrying out a crime suspect arrest against 13 subjects and an urgent preventive seizure against two entrepreneurial activities.
The aforementioned measures represent the epilogue of a complex investigative activity conventionally called "Metropoli - Hidden Economy", coordinated by the Milanese DDA and conducted by the Economic-Financial Police Units of Milan and Pavia, with the support of the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service of Rome, which made it possible to reconstruct the illicit activities of a criminal association made up of subjects dedicated, in various capacities, to the illicit trafficking of cocaine, hashish and marijuana and to the fictitious registration of assets, whose top is the son of the historic apical exponent of an association of 'Ndrangheta in the Comasina district of Milan.
The economic-financial investigations made it possible to reconstruct the cash flows and detect how a body shop, used by the suspects also for the repair of cars to the detriment of insurance institutions, and a sports shop, both located in the province of Milan and formally registered to third parties, were actually attributable to the principal suspect.
The investigations also made it possible to reconstruct the drug routes, with seizures also carried out in the territory of the Swiss Confederation, extortion against defaulting customers and trafficking in weapons, including war weapons, such as Kalashnikov machine guns supplied by connected Calabrian and Balkan cells.
Searches are underway throughout the region with the support of other Departments and aircraft of the Guardia di Finanza.
It should be noted that the criminal proceedings are still in the preliminary investigations phase and that the responsibility of the suspects will be definitively ascertained only if an irrevocable sentence of conviction intervenes. ■