Trafficking in human beings and recycling of diamonds, 17 arrests of the carabineros of Palermo

They could carry weapons of war and cigarettes, clean up mountains of money, recycle diamonds and gold, transport migrants from the Balkans to Switzerland or bring them to Sicily with a regular residence permit without going through the Bossie. Thank you to the fake companies created in Palermo. The carabinieri of the Information Unit of Palermo arrested 17 people in Italy and Kosovo this night belonging to two criminal badociations acting in synergy between Palermo and Como, Varese, Milan, Trieste, Lucerne.

They had contacts with Cosa Nostra and the new Uck placed weapons and used a network of Neapolitan counterfeiters to clean the ink stained banknotes in the badaults of the ATMs. A criminal holding company capable of transporting anything on the road to the Balkans in Italy. Giorgia Spiri, Geri Ferrara and Carlo Marzella coordinated by the new Marzia Sabella, the synergistic agents of the two organizations have acted synergistically while maintaining different spheres: one was exclusively engaged in the illegal transport of Kosovar citizens in Switzerland through to a network of Italian contacts and accomplices, The second, much more structured, focused on the trafficking of arms and cigarettes from Kosovo to Palermo, the money laundering from badaults against ATMs , the recycling of diamonds and gold and the facilitation of illegal immigration. At the head of this second criminal badociation is a Macedonian Fatmir Ljatifi, residing in Bolognetta in the province of Palermo, Palazzo Giuseppe Giangrosso and a Kosovar, Driton Rexhepi, residing in the province of Sondrio.

It is precisely from the close relationships with the subjects of Cosa Nostra in October 2016 that the Carabinieri investigation begins. Reports that initially concern the purchase and sale of weapons, Kalashnikovs and firearms. Fatmir Ljatifi, the Macedonian of a bar near the Palermo ring road, handles all the affairs of the organization. After a short period of time, investigators understand that they are not only related to weapons, but also to cleaning up the money stained by the badaults of ATMs, recycling of gold and diamonds, the product of the flight. From the bar tables of the suburbs of Palermo, the badociation has also managed the smuggling of migrants from the Balkan route and has developed a system to defraud the legislation on migratory flows of the Bossi-Fini law. . In Palermo, the organization has created a company that requires the arrival of workers from Macedonia and Kosovo. A ghost society that was to be used to obtain permanent residence permits for migrants. 7.

The arrested persons are Fatmir Ljatifi, Driton Rexhepi, Arben Rexhepi, Xhemshit Vershevci, Franco Mapelli, Tiziano Moreno Mapelli, Ibraim Latifi, Jlenia Fele Arena, Giuseppe Giangrossio, Djemilj Djaferi, Denis Nikci. , Urran Ameti, Francesco Tinnirello, Salvatore Morello, Gabriele Torres, Dario Vitellaro and Luan Dobjani