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An Italian drug trafficker taken to prison

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ANCONA, April 21 – An Italian man received a five-year prison sentence for trafficking in heroin from Albania through the port of Ancona. The man, Lionello Rossino, 65, is a resident of Turin.
Rossino had been arrested at the port of Brindisi last September while carrying 20 kg of heroin in his car. He was later identified as a courier linked to crime organizations in Albania. (Tirana Times Staff)

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