Mafia cocaine trafficker lugi Belevedere arrested after posing by Escobar’s grave

An Italian mafia fugitive – who served as an intermediary with Colombian drug gangs – has been arrested after almost four years on the run in South America.

Luigi Belvedere, one of Italy’s most wanted men, was tracked down to the city of Medellín, where infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar’s cartel was based.

Italian police released an image of Belvedere posing beside Escobar’s tomb when they announced his arrest.

Despite fleeing Europe to evade trafficking charges, he continued to be “active in the organisation of drug shipments from South America to Europe”, police said.

Belvedere, believed to be around 32 years old, was on the Italian government’s list of most dangerous fugitives.

Originally from Caserta, north of Naples, he “specialised in the illegal importation of cocaine” and served as a key point of contact between mafia clans and the Colombian cocaine producers, Italian police said in a statement on Friday.

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