ROME – POLICE on Wednesday arrested the boss of the Naples-area Camorra mafia, Nicola Panaro, considered one of Italy’s 30 most dangerous fugitives, the ANSA news agency reported.
The 41-year-old head of the most powerful Camorra clan the Casalesi had been on the run for seven years, ANSA said.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni hailed the arrest as ‘another extraordinary success by the state against the Camorra.’ Late last month police arrested 12 alleged members of the Casalesi clan including the father and brother of Michele Zagaria, a boss who has been on the run for 15 years.
Last week authorities seized land and buildings worth more than 700 million euros ($1.3 billion) from suspected Camorra mafia members in what Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called the biggest operation of its kind.
The Camorra are one of Italy’s four organised crime syndicates
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