Another Italian-Albanian gang is destroyed in the field of drug trafficking in the neighboring country. The arrests were executed in Florence, Pistoia and Pisa. Police arrested nine people, seven of whom are Albanians and two Italians.
They are accused of trafficking cocaine and marijuana. Italian media have published only the names of the four Albanians arrested within the operation "Sabbia 2" are; Lulezim Shkurtaj, Eduart Tahiraj, Floriand Tahiraj and Robert Lazaj. Italian media have published their photos and the scheme of how the criminal gang functioned.
Antonio Guastalegname, an Italian businessman has turned into a collaborator of justice for the investigation of the Ndrangheta mafia. Speaking of drug trafficking he mentions several times Valerio Navarran, who is considered by investigators to be very close to Antonio Giuseppe Accorinti, one of the drug bosses in Tuscany.
According to the penitent, Navarra had contacts with some Albanian traffickers and had the support of the Albanian government. " The corrupt subject was the Minister of Justice or Interior, or another important figure in Albanian politics, " he said. He says he learned this connection from a person named Edward or Robert during a trip to Florence-Bologna.
Investigators have discovered that it is about Robert Lazaj, born in Albania in 1972. Their suspicions have been confirmed by the Italian businessman who knew the person in question as soon as he saw him in the photo.
" I confirm it. This is the person I was referring to. "He is the relative of the minister in the Albanian government who has provided coverage for these traffics ", he says./ Calabria7.it