Camorra leader Gustavo Nocella arrested in Colombia – News

It was the passion for billiards that betrayed Camorra leader Gustavo Nocella, who was arrested today in Medellin, Colombia, after years on the run, thanks to a coordinated operation between the Colombian National Police ( PNC), Interpol, the Europol the Carabinieri and the United Kingdom police. The investigators, we read in a note from the PNC, have actually followed this direction to be able to identify another apartment rented in Medellin by the boss who was considered the main between -mediator between the Camorra clans in North Naples and East Naples – the Rinaldi-Formicola, the Amato-Pagano and the De Miccos – and the local drug cartels. Billiard tables were the common denominator in all of Nocella’s former homes, which moved as a precaution every three months but obviously couldn’t let go of a fire when it wasn’t. busy arranging shipments of tons of cocaine in the Netherlands.

And precisely by following the signs of the purchase of a luxury table with red cloth made at the Europa factory in Bogota, the investigators managed to track down the last luxury apartment rented by the boss in an area elegant El Poblado in Medellin, surrounded by shops and malls. The 58-year-old Nocella was responsible for coordinating the logistics of shipments of cocaine carbohydrates on ships and sailing vessels bound for the port of Amsterdam. The drugs, investigators reconstructed, were then sent to Naples by land, aboard fake trucks, cars and sometimes official vehicles. “This operation is the result of smooth international cooperation that allowed us to capture more than 40 drug traffickers,” said Director General of the Colombian National Police William René Salamanca Ramírez today. “The capture of Nocella, one of the most wanted mafiosi in the world – he said – is a fatal blow to these criminal clans”. According to Salamanca, today’s arrest “affects the links of the drug trade between national by directly affecting the ability to coordinate the receipt, transport, storage and export of cocaine”.