Italian police have arrested a boss of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia in Calabria

One of the terror leaders Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia Italian police said he was arrested Thursday. It comes to Pasquale Bonavotta49, one of the Four of the most wanted criminals in the countrysuspected of multiple murders and accused of being Head of a splinter group of the powerful Which operates mainly in the southern region and in the north of Piedmont and Liguria.

Bonavotta was arrested by the Carabinieri military police when he tried to enter the Genoese Cathedral with two brothers with false documents.

According to police sources, the mafia boss was living in an apartment at Saint Theodore While his wife resides in Sampierdarena and works as a teacher in a school there.

And the Minister of the Interior celebrated his arrest, Matteo Bentedosiwho referred to it as a “Success” of the anti-mafia investigation In confirmation of The “strong state response” to organized crime.

Likewise, the one in charge of the interior portfolio linked this incident to the arrest at the beginning of the year Matteo Messina DenarauHead of the Sicilian Mafia Cosa Nostra.

Bonavouta has been a fugitive from justice ever since 2018 when he fled after being charged murder charges – committed in 2004 and 2014 – and Mafia association As a promoter of the group he incorporates which has become one of the The most influential in all of Italywith foreign relations and a variety of illegal activities.

Therefore, for security reasons, the trial was held in A.A the basement It was built in an industrial area in the city of Lamezia Terme in Calabria despite the fact that, in the end, the authorities could not find its whereabouts.

However, the authorities’ searches did not prevent him from continuing to commit crimes in these years. Share the mob December 19, 2019 from the process “Rinascita-Scott”, a severe blow to organized crime, and he was the only one who managed to escape. In that episode over 300 people It was related to ‘Ndrangheta Arrested In Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Bulgaria.

On the other hand, the Daily Newspaper Il Corriere della Sera He asserted that the mafia boss was working on a more sophisticated department of the bank, known as the ‘Ndrangheta evolvedwhich is no longer only involved in drug trafficking but also engages in money laundering by investing in Digital currencies.

As a result of these operations, the police Hungary open Investigations in 25 subjects.

In connection with this development of the group, in October 2022, the Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Rome District had warned of “the development of the mafia in the capital” and noted in a report: “Boss Pasquale Bonavouta, at the head of the clan operating since the early 2000s in the capital, managed tomaking important changes over the years, and extending their business to Rome, where their treasure was seized”.

Today, the Ndrangheta has become it The richest and most powerful mafia in Italy Although its influence has spread throughout the European continent. With a presence in more than 40 countries, it controls the entry of cocaine into the region and uses corporations and frontmen to invest its illicit profits into the formal economy.

(with information from AFP and EFE)

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