Guyana named in major New York Mafia shakedown

Guyana is featured prominently in the latest major international crack down on drug cartels in the New York area.

The 15 count indictment was unsealed on Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York Federal Court and details a major drug smuggling ring that involved drug cartels in the U.S and Italy who were relying  on links in Guyana to ferry more than 1000 pounds of cocaine via containers to the United States then on to Italy.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations seven defendants were charged with narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and firearms offenses based, in part, on their participation in a transnational heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy involving the ‘Ndrangheta, one of Italy’s most powerful organized crime syndicates.

“The defendants—

‘Ndrangheta member Raffaele Valente, also known as “Lello”;

Gambino associate Franco Lupoi;

Bonanno associate Charles Centaro, also known as “Charlie Pepsi”;

Dominic Ali;

Alexander Chan;

Christos Fasarakis; and

Jose Alfredo Garcia, also known as “Freddy”—

were arrested earlier Tuesday.

In a coordinated operation, Italian law enforcement authorities arrested 17 members and associates of the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, Italy, who were involved in the narcotics trafficking conspiracy, among other crimes”, the FBI said.

The seven defendants arrested in the United States are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday before Chief United States Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold, at the United States Courthouse.

The FBI said that as alleged, Lupoi also set into motion a plot to transport 500 kilograms of cocaine, concealed in frozen food, in shipping containers from Guyana to Calabria.

In the course of these conspiracies, Lupoi assured his confederates of his relationship with a corrupt port official in Gioia Tauro, indicating that in return for €200,000, the official could guarantee passage of unlimited containers of contraband.

In New York, Lupoi joined forces with defendants Alexander Chan and Garcia to orchestrate the Guyana-Italy cocaine conspiracy.

In conversations recorded by the undercover agent, the conspirators discussed their connections to Mexican drug cartels operating in Guyana, South America, and plotted to transport 500 kilograms of cocaine internationally, hidden in shipments of frozen fish or pineapples.

On the Italian side, Ursino and his co-conspirators planned to use a fish importation company to receive the shipment.

As set forth in Italian court documents, the conspiracy slowed when shipping containers originating from the same Guyanese shipping company were seized in Malaysia and found to contain more than $7 million in cocaine hidden in pineapples and coconut milk.

Guyanese drug enforcement officials are expected to conduct their own probe in wake of the latest case in the United States.

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The Dots will be connected....

(1) How the Electronic Telephone Spy  Equipment purchased by Jagdeo Govt  and given to Roger Khan fit in the puzzle?

(2) How Morgan was protected and shielded in Guyana?

(3) Where the Convicted Queens Mortgage Broker (awaiting Sentence)....... and Offshore ANTIGUA Bank (which went bankrupt) ........and Texas Bank Owner (who is now sitting in US federal prison) fit in the Scheme and the part they played...and the relevance of Shipping 40 foot Containers Directly to Jagdeo at the President Residence.

(4) How Money Laundering Concerns by the US Govt were Ignored by the Jagdeo Govt.

(5) How Gun Smuggling became part of the Operations.

(6) How Gold & Fuel Smuggling are tied into the Money Laundering & Narco Operations.

(7)The Real Reason.. Why Jagdeo refused to pass the Money Laundering Bill when the PPP had a Majority in Parliament......and no one could have stopped him from passing the bill.

(8) Secret visits at highest levels between Guyana and Suriname when the Narco Warehouse and Distribution Center was being setup and put in place.

(9) How the Limacol T20 Cricket, EZ-Jet & Marriot Hotel linked to the Big Picture.

(10) Why the Mortgage Broker sentence is being Delayed by the US Govt.

UNCLE SAM MOVES SLOW....BUT SURE