The law enforcement authorities in Rome executed on Tuesday an anti-drug operation against a criminal consortium, which also included a group of Albanian traffickers.

According to local media, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Italian capital in cooperation with the Regional Directorate of Anti-Mafia issued 28 arrest warrants for members of the group, led by the Italian citizen Marcelo Colafili, an important figure of the Romanian underworld in the 80s.

According to sources, the organization trafficked large quantities of drugs from Spain and Colombia and cooperated with mafia organizations such as the Ndrangheta, the Camorra and an Albanian criminal group based in Latin America.

The Italian authorities specify that the Albanian faction had become part of a South American drug cartel, based in the Colombian city of Turbo.

The Albanian citizen was also the one who, on behalf of the already destroyed criminal group, had gone to negotiate with the Colombians a shipment of cocaine worth 40 million euros.

In an interception carried out as part of the investigations, the person in question talked about the difficulties to enter the Colombian state illegally and about the practices of traffickers to avoid physical controls, but also police electronics, as well as for the use of satellite phones and firearms in case of danger.

In addition to the boss Kolafili, former exponent of the notorious Romanian gang of the 80s, the Maliana Gang, the other people who fell prey to the arrest warrants are 22 Italian citizens, 2 Albanians, 1 Kosovar, 1 Macedonian and 1 Colombian.