A strong statement comes today from the Director General of the Italian Anti-Mafia Department Maurizio Vallone.
"In Liguria, he declared, the Albanian mafia works for the Calabrian mafia Ndrangheta. The Albanian mafia has been subcontracted by the Calabrian mafia, the management of drug trafficking. "
His statement was made during a visit to the city of Genoa to present the event on the 30th anniversary of the DIA, the Italian Anti-Mafia Department.
"For 30 years, the Liguria region, he said, has encountered the presence of all mafias, but investigators have tried to fight their infiltrations into the territory economy."
Speaking about the port of Genoa, one of the most important ports on the Italian maritime borders, Maurizio Vallone said that "this port has recently been under special surveillance by the authorities, a fact that is evidenced by the large amount of narcotics sequestered ”.
"Where there are more seizures, there is more attention," he said.
For the Director of the Italian Anti-Mafia, organized crime is also hit through seizures that help to damage the activity of criminal organizations.
"Mega seizures in the port of Genoa, do not prove not only the increase in the transit of narcotics, but also the improvement of inestigative abilities."
In the latest report of the Italian Antimafia, drug trafficking predominates in the criminal activity of the Liguria region. 60% of the operations carried out during 2021 belong to the work of territorial anti-drugs.
"Intranetal clans long established in the Ligurian territory have taken root," the report said, and have been the logistical basis for cocaine imports for years. Since the 1950s this region has become an attractive place for organized crime both for its booming economic structure and for its strategic geographical position as a crossroads with Versailles, Costa Azzura, Europe and Northern Italy as well as other continents. due to the ports positioned in it ”. Ora News journalist Alba Kepi reports.