On Thursday evening, in Milan, the State Police arrested a 36-year-old Chinese citizen for detention for the purpose of selling shaboo and investigated 11 Chinese citizens, aged between 30 and 60, in a state of freedom: 9 for participation in games of gambling - of these a 45-year-old also for resisting a public official and a 31-year-old for illegal carrying of weapons and carrying objects capable of offending - and two people, aged 31 and 45, for the crime of gambling aggravated.
The agents of the investigative team of the Greco Turro police station, following investigations into the control of the territory, discovered and seized, inside some rooms on the ground floor of a cultural association in via Paulucci de Calboli Fulcieri, gaming tables and material for be able to play various games of chance including Mahjong, Roulette and Poker and have identified several citizens all of Chinese nationality. The policemen also checked several cars, all large-engined, parked in the same street as the association, near which numerous video surveillance cameras were installed. Having ascertained a coming and going of people of Chinese origin who, after reaching the door and having rang, entered thanks to someone who opened it from inside, the agents simulated the delivery of a package using a van for the transport of goods inside which they were other policemen of the Greco Turro police station are ready to intervene. As soon as they entered, the agents blocked several people who were fleeing to move to a second room where there was an escape route that led to the cellars and, therefore, to the entrance door: one of these, in order to escape, hired a scuffle with a policeman.
Inside several rooms, the State Police seized several super-technological mahjong gaming tables, a deck of cards and a table with two poker mats on which plastic containers containing banknotes and coins were placed, probably used to store the bet stake.
Inside the dashboard of the car of one of the participants in the clandestine gambling den, a 36-year-old with numerous precedents and affected by the preventive measure of the oral warning of the Police Chief in March last year, the agents seized 7,2 grams of shaboo and a glass pipette: the man was arrested for possession for the purpose of drug dealing.
