one arrest and ten suspects
In the context of an articulated investigation relating to an illicit trafficking of anabolic substances including drugs, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Rimini, the Carabinieri of the Command for the Protection of Health carried out 11 house searches, seizing tens of thousands of medicines, anabolic substances and narcotics. This is what we read in a note.
The operation, carried out with the support of the Provincial Commands of the Armed Forces competent for the territory and in close synergy with the personnel of the Gendarmerie of the Republic of San Marino, in addition to the San Marino territory involved the provinces of Rimini, Rome, Pesaro Urbino, Asti, Vicenza, Monza Brianza, Verbano-Cusio Ossola and Genoa. The effectiveness of the international police cooperation channels and the rapidity of the judicial rogatory action undertaken with the San Marino Law Commissioner – continues the note – made it possible, precisely in the foreign country, to arrest a San Marino citizen for the hypothesis of crime of “attack on public health through the manufacture, corruption, adulteration, placing into circulation of food or medicinal substances” (Article 242 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of San Marino), in whose availability a warehouse was found in which huge quantities of nandrolone, anabolic steroids, testosterone, growth hormone and other various types of anabolic substances were stored, the retail value of which exceeds 2 million euros. In the same circumstance, 300,000 euros in cash were also found and seized, believed to be the profit from the illegal sales activity. Another five people of Italian nationality, recipients of the same search order, were found in possession of similar anabolic substances and steroids, proving their illegal sale even outside the borders of the San Marino state.
The investigation – continues the note – arose from the monitoring of postal shipments directed to Italy from the Republic of San Marino, already subject to previous seizures for an amount of 2.5 kilos of nandrolone (narcotic and anabolic substance, found inside packets of foreign correspondence directed to the criminal group) and the simultaneous arrest in flagrante delicto of one of the members of the association. The investigative results made it possible to reconstruct the illicit structure equipped with a certified “command center” between Rimini and the Republic of San Marino dedicated to the importation, production, storage and distribution throughout Italy of doping substances and narcotics dangerous to public health , with branches nationwide through local distribution centers that they belong to as an affiliate. The chemical-toxicological analyzes carried out have highlighted a further element of danger with regard to the substances offered for sale, represented both by the recurring mixing of several products, and by the presence of substances (such as sibutramine) banned from the market because they are very harmful and responsible, in other circumstances, for episodes of death, as well as liver and kidney poisoning. The actual responsibility of the suspects will be examined by the investigations, which are still ongoing.
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