German prosecutors today brought charges against three alleged associates of the Italian mafia organization Dragetta.

Members of the mafia allegedly they used an ice cream parlor in the western German city of Siegen for money laundering “by order of a high-ranking member of the ‘Dragetta’ from San Luca in Calabria to support the criminal mafia organization”according to prosecutors.

The head of the criminal organization allegedly invested around 400,000 euros in the ice cream parloraccording to prosecutors in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

“In return, the ice cream shop was allegedly used to launder drug-trafficking profits of ‘Drageta’ and also as a logistics base in North Rhine-Westphalia.”prosecutors said.

Furthermore, part of the daily income from the ice cream shop was allegedly transferred to other members of the Italian mafia organization in Italy.

The authorities in Italy believe that the boss of the organization is “one of the biggest traffickers in the international cocaine trade”according to prosecutors in Dusseldorf.

The ice cream shop in Siegen, as well as other properties in North Rhine-Westphalia and Italy, were searched in a major raid exactly one year ago.

The raids came after nearly three years of investigations for the alleged organized crime group.