Carabineros have arrested this morning to Leonardo Gesualdo, 39 years, considered one of the outstanding members of a mafia clan that belongs to the Foggia Societyin the Apulia region, in southern Italy, Looking for justice since 2020 after escaping a raid And on the list of most dangerous fugitives.
He was sought since 2020 after escaping the raid of the operation Tecism And it was sentenced to 12 years in prison by mafia association, The Carabineros reported on Tuesday.
Gesualdo was arrested on a house outside Foggia while he slept and He did not oppose resistance. During registration, A gun was found with six cartridges in the charger.
He was surprised while sleeping for the explosions that accompanied the entrance of the police who arrived at this house after the investigations carried out in the last months of the Provincial Command of Foggia, under the coordination of the Antimafia de Bari direction, led by prosecutor Roberto Rossi.
The arrested escaped from the 2020 raid in which about 40 people from the clans that make up the so -called Foggia Society and that controlled the economic activities of the area through the intimidation and submission to merchants and businessmen.
The 40 detainees, in 15 Italian provinces, were accused of mafia conspiracyexternal complicity in mafia conspiracy, extortionattempted extortion, usury, tender manipulation and drug trafficking, all of them aggravated by mafia methods.
In the first instance trial that concluded in mid -September, convictions were issued for a total of More than 110 years in prison to the accused.