Italian Camorra mafia fugitive arrested in Colombia for drug trafficking

A fugitive member Camorra mafia He was arrested due to a nearly 19-year prison sentence for drug trafficking ColombiaItalian police said on Friday.

The statement stated that Luigi Belvedere has been a fugitive since December 2020 and is on the list of dangerous fugitives of the Italian interior ministry. medellin.

Announcing his arrest, police distributed a photograph of Belvedere posing next to the grave of the famous deceased. Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

A fugitive member of the Camorra mafia who faces nearly 19 years in prison for drug trafficking has been arrested in Colombia, Italian police said on Friday. — Luigi Belvedere, a fugitive member of the Italian Camorra mafia, in an undated photo.Polizia di Stato

The statement said investigators became aware of his presence in Colombia thanks to information “from a well-known messaging service” that was intercepted with the help of the EU police agency EUROPOL.

Police said the gangster was convicted in absentia for importing cocaine and acting as an intermediary between the Camorra’s Casalesi clan and Colombian drug cartels.

Headquartered in Naples and surrounding areas, the Camorra is one of Italy’s main mafia groups. Unlike the more pyramidal structure of the Sicilian mafia, it consists of numerous family-based clans and its main areas of activity are drug trafficking, counterfeiting and money laundering.