All the precautions that a spanish traffickerin his 30s, had taken to transport drug in Italy they didn’t help much. It didn’t help that he even tried to pass himself off as a Person with Disability. A group of agents from the Fiamme Gialle, the Italian financial police, detected and arrested him.
The unusual case, announced this Friday by the local media, occurred at the Malpensa airport, located in the province of Varese, about twenty kilometers from Milan, the financial capital of northern Italy. There the man, whose exact identity has not been revealed and who carried 13 kilos of cocainehad requested assistance for passengers with special needs, supposedly in order to pass the controls more easily.
However, when he was already in the company of the stewardess assigned to him and was about to leave the airport, the participation of a dog Police in one of the usual anti-drug operations it turned out to be decisive. The animal showed signs of nervousness as the man passed by and, with this, the agents decided to intervene and tore the pad of the wheelchair, which led to the discovery.
Forced by the situation, the man, who came from Dominican Republic, decided to put an end to his stratagem and stood up. In this way the police, who have estimated the value of the transported drug at one and a half million euros, have arrested him for international drug trafficking, and transferred to the Busto Arsizio prison, near the city of Varese.
It is not the first time that traffickers from Latin America have used the most diverse tricks to introduce drugs into Italy, a country in which several organized mafia groups operate, including the dangerous ‘Ndrangheta from Calabria (south) and Cosa Nostra from Sicily. Furthermore, according to Italian investigators, Spain is one of the great headquarters of Italian organized crime and, on more than one occasion, transalpine mafia bosses have been arrested in Spanish cities.