Rome, Oct 25, 2024 (AFP) - Fugitive mafia cocaine broker held in Colombia: Italy

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2024-10-25

Italian police announced on Friday the arrest in Colombia of a dangerous fugitive accused of being the intermediary between the Latin American country's drug cartels and the Naples mafia. Luigi Belvedere has been sentenced to almost 19 years in jail for international drug trafficking but has been on the run since December 2020. He was captured in the Colombian city of Medellin overnight. Belvedere, a broker from Caserta, north of Naples, "speci......

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