To transport pink cocaine from South America to Italy - the most valuable and expensive one, destined for high society - they hid it inside transformers and electronic equipment .
But the ploy was discovered at Malpensa airport by the Varese Finance Police, who arrested two people, a Dominican citizen and a Colombian roommate.
Over 2 kg of cocaine were also seized, for an estimated "retail" value of € 300,000, destined for dealing in Trentino.
Two intercepted shipments, coming from Colombia , and containing electronic equipment: thanks to the sniffing of drug dogs, the drug was discovered hidden in transformers made opaque to control instruments.
In a house in Trento, where the drugs were to be sold, 4,000 euros in cash, a precision slingbar, numerous cell phones and marijuana were found.
Also found 2C-B, a pink colored psychedelic chemical compound, quite rare and difficult to find.
Maxi-seizure of cocaine also in Milan , where the soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza have identified two different criminal groups, one of Italian origin and the other North African , dedicated to the trafficking of large quantities of drugs in all the Lombard provinces.
The activity carried out with the coordination of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office allowed the arrest of eleven people , the denunciation of another seven for possession of drugs, the seizure of about 12 kilograms of cocaine and hashish, 50 thousand euros in cash, a gun Beretta 22 gauge without serial number with 28 cartridges.
(Unioneonline / lf)