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

How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company
Lauren Etter, Michael Riley December 16, 2022

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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