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"Coca Delivery"/ Italian anti-mafia strikes Albanian cocaine group, 40 investigated in L'Aquila

2026-05-28 11:03:12Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

"Coca Delivery"/ Italian anti-mafia strikes Albanian cocaine group, 40

Italian authorities have today conducted an operation called "Coca Delivery", against an Albanian structured criminal group accused of cocaine trafficking in the Italian city of L'Aquila.

Italian media reports that the organization recruited young Albanians in their twenties, who arrived in Italy on tourist visas, with no criminal record or criminal history, landed in Rome, then someone took them to L'Aquila.

They would get apartments on the outskirts of the capital or in nearby towns, rented cars, several mobile phones and always different SIM cards. They would stay for several weeks, long enough to sell the cocaine and disappear. When the Carabinieri stopped them, the pattern always seemed the same: ten, twelve doses, small amounts, no criminal record, no personal phone number that could be traced back to them. These kids were almost invisible to the authorities.

But behind that continuous series of arrests and checks, according to the L'Aquila District Anti-Mafia Directorate, there was an organized system that in recent years had built a real cocaine network between the Abruzzo capital and the surrounding area.

Operation "Coca Delivery" began this morning, mandated by the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office of the L'Aquila District. Carabinieri from the Operational and Mobile Unit of the L'Aquila Company, supported by the territorial commands of the Carabinieri, a crew from the 16th Carabinieri Helicopter Unit in Rieti, two dog units from the Chieti Dog Unit and two operational intervention teams from the 8th Lazio Regiment and the 10th Campagna Regiment, executed 25 personal precautionary measures and 11 detentions.

Forty people are under investigation, almost all Albanian citizens. They are accused of conspiracy to traffic narcotics and possession and distribution of cocaine.

The investigation, coordinated by prosecutor Roberta D'Avolio under the direction of district attorney Alberto Sgambati, began in January 2025 precisely from that feeling of constant repetition: the same profiles, the same movements, the same boys appearing and disappearing within a few days.

"We didn't just stop at individual arrests," explained Major Massimo Canale, commander of the L'Aquila Carabinieri Company. "We tried to understand what was behind this constant influx of individuals," he added.

And piece by piece, the investigators began to assemble the puzzle of the mechanism.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, there were three distinct criminal organizations, autonomous but linked to each other and, above all, linked to an operational structure in Albania that managed the recruitment, drug supply and continuous circulation of dealers.

The choice to use boys without criminal records was part of the system itself.

"They were young people who had arrived perhaps the day before, with no criminal record," prosecutor D'Avolio explained at a press conference. "The risk was that any incident would be limited to a simple arrest for minor drug trafficking," he added.

Instead, investigators began to connect dozens of seemingly isolated cases.

The cars used by the dealers changed constantly. Telephone lines were very short. The cocaine was hidden in forest areas, in the countryside and on the outskirts of L'Aquila. The dealers carried only a small amount of cocaine with them precisely to avoid the stricter precautions if they were stopped.

The rest of the substance was found in secret places from time to time.

A mobile and fluid structure, built to make it difficult to reach the highest levels of the organization.

When one of the traders was arrested or simply targeted by the police, he disappeared. He returned to Albania. And was replaced almost immediately by another young man who had just arrived.

To rebuild the system, the carabinieri worked for more than a year using surveillance services, hidden cameras and constant monitoring of movements in the suburbs and villages of the L'Aquila area.

"The skill of the investigators was precisely in bringing together so many seemingly unrelated incidents," emphasized District Prosecutor Alberto Sgambati, who thanked in particular Colonel Salvatore Del Campo, the provincial commander of the Carabinieri of L'Aquila, Public Prosecutor Roberta D'Avolio and all the officers involved in the investigation.

During the investigation, the Carabinieri made 16 arrests and seized approximately one kilogram of cocaine. Investigators believe that the sale of at least 3,200 doses has been confirmed, with an estimated turnover of approximately 125,000 euros.

Over 100 identified users have been reported to the competent Prefectures.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, the groups operated mainly in L'Aquila and surrounding municipalities, but also had links in Tuscany and Veneto.

"This operation does not solve the drug problem. But it represents a significant blow to the criminal organizations that had been operating continuously in the area," said D'Avilio.


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