Rome, 'Pupone' drug made to disappear by corrupt police officers: investigation reveals plan against rival criminal group
An investigation by prosecutors has unveiled a plan to damage a rival criminal group: the seized drugs are said to have been made to disappear with the complicity of corrupt agents.
Rome, 'Pupone' drug made to disappear by corrupt police officers: investigation reveals plan against rival criminal group
A police operation that was supposed to represent a success in the fight against drug trafficking has turned into a judicial affairs case with troubling contours. Behind a seizure of narcotic substances carried out by the State police on the streets of the capital, there lay a trap devised to strike at a competing criminal organisation.
The investigations, conducted by prosecutors and supported by wiretaps from Rome's anti-mafia unit, have shed light on a carefully architected plan. According to the reconstruction, and as reported by RomaToday, the seized drugs — linked to the so-called "Pupone" market — were not simply confiscated, but made to disappear with the help of corrupt officials. The objective was to damage the rival criminal group managing that traffic, depriving it of its cargo without this ending up in the State's coffers.
The matter emerged also thanks to statements from a justice collaborator, who provided decisive elements for reconstructing the dynamics of the illicit activity. In the background, as often occurs in these investigations, the question of drug trafficking and control of territory by Roman criminal organisations remains.
The investigation furthermore raises questions about corruption within institutions tasked with repressing crime: the hypothesis that police officers acted in collusion with elements of the underworld to favour one group at the expense of another represents a particularly serious aspect of the case.
Source: Google News IT — Crime (it)