| Submit your comments on this article |
| Europe |
| Drug ring in nunnery busted |
| 2010-05-12 |
| ITALIAN police smashed a drug trafficking ring secretly using a nun's convent outside Milan and seized 40kg of cocaine, the country's paramilitary police said today. The nuns at the convent in Piacenza "had no idea it was going on", Carabinieri Colonel Edoardo Cappellano said. "A Colombian security guard let in accomplices under the false pretext of pilgrimages or spiritual retreats," Colonel Cappellano said. "Instead of prayer books, he let cocaine through." Thirty-three arrests were made, including a dozen Colombians, and another 80 people are under investigation. Italian police believe the Calabrian mafia and at least two Colombian drug cartels to be behind the operation, and said the arrests dealt "a major setback to cocaine trafficking" in northern Italy. During their three-year investigation Italian police also discovered the smugglers had set up a storehouse in Ghana by diverting aid from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation intended for the fishing industry. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 "Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun." God, I must have heard that line forty times, running 16mm prints of Heavy Metal for our semesterly fundraisers for a university club in the early Nineties. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-05-12 16:13 |