90 Arrested – Guyana Companies Linked to US$60 Billion Cocaine Empire
Sicily – Investigations into one of Europe’s most powerful drug syndicate and mafia grouping has led to intelligence officials tying at least two export companies in Guyana to the feared Ndranghet Mafia out of Sicily, who is believed to have control over 80% of the cocaine that is shipped to Europe, while pocketing an average of US$3.5 billion per week, (a figure that can clear off Guyana’s national debt or that can literally run the entire country for two to three years, based upon current budget numbers).
The entire network is said to be making some US$60 Billion per year, more than enough money to help them to economically take over an entire country like Guyana within a matter of days, or acquire new technology to stay ahead of the various agencies that are pursuing them.
But investigators say that the Italian mafias are not interested in running Guyana or its economy. What they are interested in is ensuring that the two front companies in Guyana (one of which exports timber) pays its taxes and keep a clean slate on the local scene, while ensuring that containers of transshipped cocaine from Colombia can be loaded on to ships on Guyana’s wharves undetected and shipped out to Europe.
One of the Guyana-based companies is said to be fully owned by the Sicily-based Mafia who uses third parties to operate them locally, while the other company (name withheld) is a well established Guyanese company in which the mafias has major shares, possibly unknowing to other shareholders.
