A villa in Ibiza was the marijuana cultivation area that supplied an Italian drug trafficking network that has just been deactivated. This is one of the main lines of investigation in which the Mobile Brigade of Chieti, the town in the Pescara valley where the network operated, has arrested 47 people and seized 70 kilos of drugs.
As reported by the Italian media iLCentroreported, a preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 20, during which these 47 people will be tried. Most of them are Italians from the Abruzzo region, although there are also detainees from other European countries. And a protagonist who has a villa in Ibiza.
“The suspects, making use also of subjects of Ukrainian, Romanian, Albanian and Bulgarian nationality, have proved to be able to obtain large quantities of narcotics, revealing a strong and proven criminal capacity, managing to satisfy the demand of a large part of the drug market between Chieti and Pescara”, states the police report quoted by the Italian media.
During the investigations, the Mobile Brigade seized more than 70 kilos of narcotic substances and 25 cannagars (cigars filled with marijuana and then coated with cannabis resin oil). However, it is estimated that this is only a small part of what they trafficked.
According to the local police, the group was active in university environments in Chieti, as well as on social networks, where it offered marijuana and hashish, but also trafficked drugs with specific treatments that increase the active ingredient.
The village of Ibiza
The investigation into this drug trafficking network began in March 2020. And one of the key clues turned out to be a call pointing to an Ibizan villa as the place of cultivation.
The police report states that “during the investigation, several telephone conversations were intercepted between Mario Innaro and his cousin Roberto Beccaria that would suggest the existence of an indoor marijuana cultivation inside a villa, owned by Beccaria, located on the island of Ibiza”.
One of these conversations was in August 2020. The Police have reconstructed the following in relation to that moment: “Innaro, about to organize a vacation with his partner, asks Beccaria if he can stay in that villa: the latter, answering in the negative, refers to the fact that all the rooms “were working”. As the investigation progressed, a conversation between Innaro and a man was intercepted that left no room for doubt as to the type of “work” being carried out inside the house in question. At that point, Innaro showed a video and told his interlocutor that it had been sent to him by “Robertino” (Roberto Beccaria) who was in Spain at his villa in Ibiza, “with all the weed”.”
And, furthermore, the Police have clarified: “Innaro also claimed that he had helped his cousin to find a “quiet and non-vicious” boy to send to work in the aforementioned villa, which he had done by identifying an “unemployed” friend of his from Pescara, whom he had “transferred to Spain.”
