18 December 2022

Things go better with coke. . .

 

www.bloomberg.com

How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company

Lauren Etter, Michael Riley
1 minute

relates to How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company

Illustration: Viktor Hachmang for Bloomberg Businessweek

"As MSC grew into a dominant force in global trade, it also became a prime drug-trafficking conduit for Balkan gangs.

In the summer of 2019, Claudio Bozzo, chief operating officer of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co., flew 4,000 miles from Geneva to Washington, DC, for a meeting with US Customs and Border Protection. He’d been sent by MSC’s owner, a secretive 82-year-old billionaire named Gianluigi Aponte, to contain a crisis."

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