21.   Scarcely a month ago, Bagarella narrowly escaped arrest in Milan, northern Italy, as police swooped on a trafficking network.

22.   Several drug trafficking networks, run by ethnic Romanians, Turks, Moldovans and others, were dismantled.

23.   The court must decide by next week if the suspect is really the head of a plutonium trafficking network as border police believe.

24.   The investigation of the trafficking network is continuing.