Italian drug dealers were transporting 125 kg of cocaine in parmesan heads and got caught (5 photos)
And you have cheese with a smell!
Turin drug dealers thought they had a cunning plan to transportation of cocaine. They hid briquettes with powder in heads of cheese. parmesan and hoped that the traditional and familiar product for these places will not arouse the suspicion of the police. The product is something, maybe traditional and familiar, but the carriers are not very. The criminal group was mostly from Albanians.
Employees of the financial guard of Turin reported on the disclosure drug smuggling schemes from the Netherlands to the Italian Piedmont. Gang operated in seven regions at once (the provinces of Turin, Asti, Lombardi, Tuscany and the Veneto region and on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia), and across Italy cocaine was transported exclusively in heads of cheese.
According to the police, they managed to seize more than 125 kilograms of powder, the price of which on the black market is about 80 million euros.
It is reported that law enforcement agencies detained in the case of drug smuggling 10 people. Seven were sent to jail the rest will await trial under house arrest. The police have yet to find out how many drugs managed to smuggle into the country in this way. And how much cheese was spoiled, mamma mia!