Mafia, 8 arrests in Palermo for drug trafficking control In prison, the leaders of the Pagliarelli district who supplied drug dealing squares with drugs and also allegedly paid the expenses for the maintenance of the families of the "associates" in prison
December 14, 2021
The way to make money is always drugs. And drug trafficking was "differentiated". The hashish arrived from Malaga, Spain, directly to Palermo via Campania couriers. The cocaine, on the other hand, came from Calabria.
Managing this incessant flow is the Pagliarelli mafia district in Palermo.
The regent of the Pagliarelli district, his right arm, two lieutenants and 4 couriers, the most active in drug trafficking, ended up in prison. The "Brevis" investigation the follow-up to the "Brevis" investigation of last April, again on the Pagliarelli mafia district which allowed "to find the continuing operation of that joint 'Cosa Nostra' in Palermo". Last April the Carabinieri had identified and arrested the alleged new top of the district, already arrested in December 2018 in the "Cupola 2.0" operation.
Even in this case, what emerges is the strict control of Cosa Nostra over the territory, so much so as to allow the "regent" to obtain from a private individual a luxurious villa with a Scarface-style swimming pool, where he lived with his family. Villa, however, which remained in the name of the rightful owner. The property is now under seizure.