Marco Raduano, 40, is the leader of “Società Foggiana”, a mafia group active in the Italian province of Foggia, in Puglia, in the south of the country. He escaped a year ago from Nuoro prison, in Sardinia.

The mafia boss was detained "in the high security wing of the prison", from which he managed to escape thanks to "tied sheets" His right-hand man, Gianluigi Troiana, was simultaneously arrested in Otura, near Granada, in southern Spain.