Italian finance police in Catania have made 16 arrests and seized 432kg of unspecified narcotics in a massive raid on a Sicily-Malta drug trafficking route.
‘Operation La Vallette’ was carried out at dawn by over 100 officers from the Catanese provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza, with their Ragusan counterparts and the serious crimes unit SCICO.
The arrests were made in Sicily, home of the Cosa Nostra – specifially Catania, Ragusa, and Syracuse – and in Calabria, home of the Ndrangheta, as well as in Malta. Apart from Italian subjects, arrests of Albanian and Maltese nationals were also carried out.
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