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.