Nuns Involved in Drug Trafficking

Police in Italy say they have broken up a drug ring that used a convent outside Milan to smuggle cocaine.

The convent's South American janitor organized religious trips in which smugglers posing as pilgrims hid cocaine in their prayer books.

The nuns were "completely unaware" of what he was up to.

The police in Italy have arrested 33 suspects and seized 30kg of cocaine. They say the mafia and Colombian cartels were allegedly behind the operation.

The drugs were taken from the convent to a house near Bergamo, where the cocaine was refined, cut and sent off to major cities for distribution, the police informed.