The military of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples have executed an order for the application of the precautionary measure of jail custody, issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples - Antimafia District Directorate, against sixteen people seriously suspected, in various capacities, of the crimes of association for the purpose of drug trafficking, detention for the purpose of drug dealing, kidnapping for the purpose of extortion, procured non-compliance with a penalty.
The investigations, conducted by the financiers of the G.O.A. Section of the Investigation Group on Organized Crime, would have allowed to unveil the operation of four different criminal groups (in the province of Naples, but with ramifications also in other Italian territories and in Spain), dedicated to the trafficking of batches of different types of drugs (mostly, hashish and cocaine).
In particular: a first group, operating in the territory of Naples and province and with ramifications in Crotone, led by a subject who, through couriers, would have dealt with the wholesale marketing of batches of drugs in favor of not only Campanian but also Calabrian customers; a second group, operating in Naples and province and with ramifications in other Italian regions (in particular, Emilia-Romagna), which would have distributed batches of drugs also to the first association; a third group, which would have imported batches of drugs from Spain mainly for the Irpinian market; a fourth group, based in Giugliano in Campania, which would have dealt with the marketing of the narcotic in favor, in particular, of another criminal group active in the Vesuvian countries.
During the investigative activities, conducted in collaboration with the Central Service Investigation Organized Crime, over 300 kilos of hashish, 36 kilos of cocaine and over 400 thousand euros in cash were seized.
The investigation would also have allowed to ascertain the kidnapping for the purpose of extortion of one of the recipients of the precautionary measure to force his wife and brother to settle a debt of 7,700 euros originated from previous unpaid drug supplies. The measure executed today is a precautionary measure, ordered in the context of preliminary investigations, against which appeal means are admitted, and the recipients of the same are people under investigation and therefore presumed innocent until final judgment.