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In the port of Genoa, a cargo of 444.5 kilos of cocaine was seized
An employee of the CULMV was arrested
February 8, 2022
Specifying that the narcotic, if ended up on the market, would have fruitful revenues of about 30 million euros, the Guardia di Finance explained as part of the service activities aimed at combating international trafficking in substances narcotic drugs and to carry out the monitoring of trade flows seafarers affecting the port hub of Genoa, with particular reference to transnational shipments of goods from areas geographical considered at risk, has been carried out an analysis that had led, in recent days, to the identification of some suspicious containers. The containers, once disembarked last Sunday evening they were secured in a video surveillance area of the port terminal, with a ban on handling, to be subsequently subjected to inspection. The financiers, suspicious of some movements in the terminal area where the containers to be checked were placed, and from the sudden displacement, at night, of one of them by a port operator, they decided to intervene, proceeding the arrest of F.P. of 50 years, employee of CULMV, surprised when unloading from the container the bags containing the cocaine.
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Specifying that the narcotic, if ended up on the market, would have fruitful revenues of about 30 million euros, the Guardia di Finance explained as part of the service activities aimed at combating international trafficking in substances narcotic drugs and to carry out the monitoring of trade flows seafarers affecting the port hub of Genoa, with particular reference to transnational shipments of goods from areas geographical considered at risk, has been carried out an analysis that had led, in recent days, to the identification of some suspicious containers. The containers, once disembarked last Sunday evening they were secured in a video surveillance area of the port terminal, with a ban on handling, to be subsequently subjected to inspection. The financiers, suspicious of some movements in the terminal area where the containers to be checked were placed, and from the sudden displacement, at night, of one of them by a port operator, they decided to intervene, proceeding the arrest of F.P. of 50 years, employee of CULMV, surprised when unloading from the container the bags containing the cocaine.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
