{"id":12880,"date":"2021-05-06T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T08:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=12880"},"modified":"2021-05-06T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T08:32:16","slug":"albanian-nigerian-drug-ring-busted-by-italian-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanian-nigerian-drug-ring-busted-by-italian-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian-Nigerian drug ring busted by Italian authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation carried out by Italian authorities led to serious suspicions over a potential drug ring between Albanian and Nigerian nationals with the intent to smuggle and then sell the narcotics in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Italian newspaper \u201cL\u2019Espresso\u201d reported on Wednesday that after 3-year long investigations prosecutors in Rome arrested 52 suspects, half of which were from Albania and the others Italian and Africans.<\/p>\n<p>They are alleged to be a part of a well-organized criminal group involved in the sale of cannabis in several major Italian cities. Authorities seized a large amount of drugs believed to be worth around \u20ac2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the names that popped out during the investigation were Albanian nationals Geraldo Bejaj and Sule Momodu. Italian media highlight that the group is not however related to the infamous Sicilian Cosa Nostra, nor Naples \u201cCamorra\u201d and Ndrangheta, pushing authorities to learn more about the case.<\/p>\n<p>A network of car rentals was being used by the drug ring to transport the narcotics, and an Italian citizen has been detained after discovering that he had 350 vehicles under his name, despite having declared that he was unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian paper also wrote that the Albanians are from the southern city of Vlora. 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Italian newspaper \u201cL\u2019Espresso\u201d reported on Wednesday that after 3-year long investigations prosecutors in Rome arrested 52 suspects, half of which were from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albanian-Nigerian drug ring busted by Italian authorities - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanian-nigerian-drug-ring-busted-by-italian-authorities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albanian-Nigerian drug ring busted by Italian authorities - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An investigation carried out by Italian authorities led to serious suspicions over a potential drug ring between Albanian and Nigerian nationals with the intent to smuggle and then sell the narcotics in Italy. 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