The pipeline fell apart when the Italian police seized 5,497 kilos of cocaine (a European record at the time) in March 1994 near Turin. A year later the Turin Prosecutors Office presented the indictment (the investigation was code-named Operation Cartagine). The operation neutralized the most important supply-line of narcotics to Europe, investigators claimed. The Cuntrera-Caruana family was labelled as ""the fly-wheel of the drug trade and the indispensable link between suppliers and distributors."" One of the suppliers was Henry Loaiza Ceballos of the Cali cartel.