Milan, November 23 - Milan police have arrested 45 people suspected of being part of an international drug-trafficking syndicate operating in Albania, the Netherlands, Italy and Peru, investigators said Wednesday.
The suspects are Italian and South American nationals who allegedly imported cocaine from Peru and the Netherlands and marijuana from Albania and sold the drugs in the Milan area. The arrests in the so-called Rubens operation followed a three-year-long investigation, police said. Those arrested in Milan were South Americans operating in the north of the city and in the Via Padova area, where a Dominican national was killed in a turf war recently.
The HQ of the ring was in Via Padova, police said.
Soldiers are set to support the police in patrolling Via Padova and other outlying districts of Milan next week.
(ANSA)
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