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17 September 2020Maxiooperazione international anti-drug of the State Police: the criminal cartel considered the leader of Albanian groups specialized in drug trafficking on the continent has been vanquished.



The operation, called Los Blancos, coordinated by the Florence Public Prosecutor's Office and which involved the Tuscan capital and other Italian cities, as well as numerous foreign countries, led to dozens of arrests, seizures of tons of cocaine and millions of euros.



The investigation, as explained in the note, was conducted as part of a "Joint Investigation Team consisting of the central operational service of the Central Crime Directorate, the Florence Mobile Team, the Dutch Finec and the Central Directorate for Drug Services, with the coordination of Eurojust and Europol, the National Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate and the Central Directorate of Criminal Police ".



In the morning, a press conference will be held in the bunker hall in Florence to illustrate the results of the operation. Among those present the vice-president of Eurojust Filippo Spiezia, the national anti-mafia prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho, the Florence prosecutor Giuseppe Creazzo.