The head of a crack Italian anti-mafia and anti-terrorism police unit was convicted Monday of faking drug busts to advance his career during undercover operations in the 1990s. Giampaolo Ganzer, 61, commander of the elite ROS police unit in the paramilitary Carabinieri corps, received a 14-year jail sentence for heading up rogue cops who, prosecutors said, set up their own trafficking ring "in order to repress it, get rich and attain visibility and success". Prosecutors had sought a 27-year term for Ganzer, who was among 15 former officers convicted for the bogus narcotics operations that took place between 1991 and 1997. Three Carabinieri were acquitted. Those found guilty received jail terms including seven years for former ROS colonel Mauro Obinu, now at the domestic intelligence service AISE, and 13 and a half years for former NCO Gilberto Lovato. Ganzer, who denied the charges and is entitled to two automatic appeals, declined to comment on the sentence. According to prosecutors, in 1993 Ganzer and his men also brought weapons into Italy from Beirut including 119 kalashnikovs, two rocket launchers and four rockets.