Issued 12 pre-trial detention orders and preventive seizures for a value exceeding 240.000 euros

Over 120 agents of the State Police are engaged in arrests and searches in a vast anti-drug operation in the province of Vicenza, Reggio Calabria and Trento, executing a precautionary custody order ordered by the Office of the GIP of the Court of Venice against of 12 people, suspected for various reasons of drug trafficking, in particular of the import of large quantities of cocaine from South America.

The investigations, directed by the Venice Anti-Mafia District Directorate, were launched in 2017 and made it possible to acquire serious evidence of guilt against a criminal association based in the province of Vicenza, made up of subjects of Calabrian origin. In the same operational context, the Guardia di Finanza of Vicenza is carrying out preventive seizures, for the purposes of confiscation, of money, goods or other utilities in the availability of some suspects, for a value of approximately 246.000 euros.

Disjointed criminal association aimed at drug trafficking