San Marino, round of anabolic steroids and hormones: dangerous substances seized for 2 million euros
Nandrolone, anabolic steroids, testosterone, growth hormone and other various types of anabolic substances for a retail value is more than 2 million euros. Between Rimini and the Republic from St Marine on the morning of Saturday 19 November i Carabinieri Nas and the San Marino gendarmerie executed a big kidnapping of these medicines and other anabolic substances, as part of ainvestigation coordinated by the prosecutor of Rimini Davide Ercolani. The operation, in various Italian regions, has led to one arrest and 10 suspects and unmasked an illicit ring of anabolic steroids that from Rimini and San Marino were placed on the market throughout Italy. So much so that they were carried out on the seized goods analyses who found thehigh dangerousness of the products derived from the mixing of several drugs, from the presence of substances (such as sibutramine) banned from the trade since they are very harmful and responsible, in other circumstances, for episodes of I decidedas well as liver and kidney poisoning.
The “brain” in San Marino
According to what emerged from the investigations, the command center was between Rimini and the Republic of San Marino. Here it resides the only one arrested for “attack on public health through the manufacture, corruption, adulteration, placing into circulation of food or medicinal substances”. In whose shed the seizures were arranged. The command center would be located between the Province of Rimini and San Marino: here and the substances were imported, produced and stored to then be distributed throughout Italy. The ramifications of the association involved the whole national territory through local distribution centers who operated as an affiliate. Eleven house searches during which they were seized tens of thousands of medicinesanabolic substances and narcotics.
A network from Verbania to Pesaro
In the same circumstance, they have been 300 thousand euros in cash seized, believed to be the profit of the illicit sales activity. Another 5 people of Italian nationality, recipients of the search order, were found in possession of similar anabolic substances and steroids, “as proof – the investigators explain – of the illegal sale even outside the borders of the San Marino state”. The seizures affected the provinces of Rimini, Rome, Pesaro Urbino, Asti, Vicenza, Monza Brianza, Verbano-Cusio Ossola and Genoa.It all started 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 kg of nandrolone (narcotic and anabolic substance, found inside parcels of foreign correspondence directed to the criminal group) and the simultaneous arrest in the act of one of the members of the alleged association.
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