The carabinieri of Bologna and the Spanish police arrested in Madrid the fugitive of 'Ndrangheta Domenico Paviglianiti, 60, "the boss of bosses" as he was called in the 1980s and 1990s.
He is the recipient of a provision for the execution of concurrent sentences for 11 years, 8 and 15 days, issued on 21 January by the Bologna Public Prosecutor's Office for crimes of mafia-type association, murder and association aimed at drug trafficking.
Paviglianiti had been released in October 2019, on the basis of an erroneous calculation of the sentence.
He had left Italy and took refuge in Spain.
Paviglianiti was arrested on 3 August by the Spanish Police, Udyco Central, and by the carabinieri of the provincial command of Bologna, the investigative nucleus, coordinated by the prosecutor Giuseppe Amato and by prosecutors Roberto Ceroni and Michele Martorelli, in collaboration with Eurojust (Filippo Spiezia) and in liaison with the International Police Cooperation Service. Considered an apical element of the homonymous' Ndrangheta family, still operating in the municipalities of San Lorenzo, Bagaladi and Condofuri (Reggio Calabria) with branches in Northern Italy, in particular in Lombardy, and in South America for the management of international drug trafficking, Paviglianiti he had already been sentenced to life imprisonment (the penalty was later replaced with imprisonment for 30 years) for a series of murders, mafia-type association and drug offenses,committed since the 1980s. He had a first-rate role, explain the carabinieri, during the so-called second mafia war, when together with other 'Ndrangheta families from the province of Reggio Calabria he had supported the De Stefano clan in the bloody feud with the Condellos. The investigation that led to his tracing stems from the new provision issued by the Bolognese prosecutor, which arrived after an appeal to the Supreme Court which found the wrong calculation that had released the boss.investigation that led to trace him stems from the new provision issued by the Bolognese prosecutor, which arrived after an appeal to the Supreme Court that found the wrong calculation that had released the boss.investigation that led to trace him stems from the new provision issued by the Bolognese prosecutor, which arrived after an appeal to the Supreme Court that found the wrong calculation that had released the boss.
