Italian mafia kingpin and Pablo Escobar fan arrested in cocaine capital Colombia after four years on the run

AN ITALIAN mafia kingpin has been arrested connected cause trafficking charges aft spending 4 years connected the run.

Luigi Belvedere - a arrogant Pablo Escobar instrumentality - was caught by cops successful the cocaine superior of Colombia.

He had been connected the tally since December 2020 and was connected the Italian interior ministry's database of unsafe fugitives.

In announcing his arrest, constabulary distributed a representation of Belvedere posing by the sedate of the notorious precocious Colombian cause lord Pablo Escobar.

The connection said investigators got upwind of his beingness successful Colombia acknowledgment to accusation "from a well-known messaging service", which was intercepted with the assistance of EU constabulary bureau Europol.

The mobster has been convicted successful absentia with a last blameworthy ruling for importing cocaine and acting arsenic an intermediary betwixt the Casalesi clan of the Camorra and Colombian cause cartels, constabulary said.

The Camorra, based successful Naples and surrounding areas, is 1 of Italy's main mafia groups.

It is made up of a myriad of family-based clans, dissimilar the much pyramidal operation of the Sicilian mafia, and its main businesses are cause trafficking, counterfeiting and wealth laundering.