TRIESTE – Many of those arrested during the Maxi investigation that led to the largest cocaine seizure ever carried out in Italy have chosen to confess, giving investigators excellent new leads. Saying this, reachable by phone from TriestePrima, is the Attorney General of the Regional Capital, Antonio De Nicolo. The interrogations are conducted by the preliminary investigation judge Marco Casavecchia. After a first round in which none of the first eight arrested spoke, in less than a week “more than one person decided to confess”.
The investigations are ongoing
The investigation, which thanks to the so-called undercover investigations and the commitment of the Gico military and the Anti-Drug Operational Group of the Guardia di Finanza – with the great work of Dr. Federico Frezza – has dried up a river of Colombian cocaine chosen as its estuary from South America’s European port of Trieste. Over four tons of drugs, with 19 controlled shipments and two different phases of the operation. The undercover agent delivers the first 300 kilograms to Castano Ramon Abel (the Colombian to whom the narcos Martinez Quiroz and Antonio Prudente had entrusted the delivery operations and the information on the “names and contacts of the buyers of each batch of cocaine) in Trieste May 17, 2021 This is because the Colombians did not suspect the “safe place”. In the seizures and drug recovery activities, 135 kilograms were “returned” while “the remaining 150 kilograms could not be recovered. In fact, 15 kilograms was concealed as compensation left behind and then arrested by Goa.
The names of those arrested
From the Colombian boss to Serb Miljenovic Milan, the precautionary measures have reached several suspects. The first 24 names of the investigation are: Castano Catano Ramon Abel, Lazzarato Adriano (Venice), Ugo Mascioli (Bari), Sava Gheoerghiev Savov, Bozhidar Bozilov (Bulgaria), Ujla Renaqto (Albania), Cirjau Constantin (Moldova), Enri and Ervin Hardolli (Albania), Luca Bellio, Antonio Prudente, Angel Maria Quiroz Martinez, Altin Lleshaj, Denis Kacaj, Moreno Demaj, Giuseppe Giorgi, Francesco Megna, Ernesto Rizzo, Sasa Radivoje Vuckovic (Serbia), Erguen Isik, Slovenians Ales Krasovec and Matjaz Razek and Dorde Kotlaja (Montenegro). In this context, De Nicolo announced on the arrest of the Slovene that “there are ongoing activities, the European Arrest Warrant procedure will take about 30 to 40 days”. Stanjel’s murder “has nothing to do with the investigations,” particularly in the cross-border drug market.
The Serbian current
Among the names of those arrested is that of 33-year-old Sasa Vuckovic of Serbian origin. Arrested in Zagreb, his phones, a laptop and a Skoda car were confiscated, although he is well known to the Balkan public for kidnapping the son of a well-known businessman in Belgrade in 2010. After he was kidnapped near the sports hall, the seven-man kidnapping squad demanded a ransom of 150,000 euros. The young man, along with his girlfriend, fell into the trap organized by Vuckovic and lured the victim into a trap. Two of the Serb’s accomplices disguised themselves as police officers and kidnapped the young man who was locked in a cellar. One of Vukcovic’s business partners (MM in his initials) ended up in prison years ago for organizing the transport of 38 kilograms of cocaine from Peru to Croatia between 2005 and 2009. [continua]