Italy, 202 kg of cocaine are seized in the cemetery of Milan, 3 Albanians in handcuffs

The Italian police completed two operations in the Milan area, leading to the seizure of a shipment of at least 202 kilograms of cocaine, as well as the arrest of 3 Albanians suspected of being its possessors or couriers.

From a first rough estimate, the value of the narcotic on the market is over 15 million euros. Among the seizures carried out are also an amount of 80 thousand euros in cash, of which 18 thousand turned out to be counterfeit.

There are suspicions that the group either paid for the purchase of goods with counterfeit money in part, or was paid by buyers in such denominations, manipulating them.

The strikes were carried out in the regions of Monza and Brianza, as the narcotics were discovered in 4 cars, which were parked in the cemetery area. The police confirmed it to the media yesterday (October 1), but the checks started on Friday.

The media of the neighboring country called it a record seizure for the area in question, explaining that the first action was carried out in the municipal cemetery of Agrat, where 3 of the parked cars were found with 142 kg of cocaine inside, possessed by two of the Albanians and last in another nearby area, carrying another 60 kg of cocaine, which was driven by a third Albanian.

The suspects are aged 37-44, one of whom had rented a garage and apparently an apartment in a building in "Via Ghiringhella", a residential area behind the Colleoni business center, where three carabinieri patrols carried out several checks last weekend as well.

Meanwhile, the carabinieri of Milan said that after the first action, they arrested a third person, also Albanian, on board a car with English license plates, to which the first two had delivered part of the load of 60 kg of cocaine, the media reported. Italian "Prima Monza".

As part of the same operation, checks were carried out in a large number of rented apartments in the municipalities of Agrate and Milan.

Tools and equipment such as; banknote counting machines, two vacuum packaging machines and a bag containing approximately hundreds of counterfeit banknotes, as well as the equivalent of almost 80 thousand euros in cash, in cash and various denominations, where it turns out that 18,000 euros are counterfeit.