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Dubai: arrest of Italian drug lord wanted for six years

2021-08-19T18:23:24.534Z


It was the Italian police who announced the arrest of Raffale Imperiale, one of the traffickers most wanted by justice in his


He was considered one of the most dangerous Italian fugitives.

Raffale Imperiale, a leading figure in organized crime from Naples, southern Italy, was arrested on August 4 in Dubai, in coordination with Interpol and Europol, Italian police said in a statement.

The 47-year-old man has been "a long-time leading player in international drug trafficking and money laundering" who, over the years, has created "an impressive network of international traffickers, including cocaine", he added. explained the police.

According to the Irish weekly "Sunday World", this important figure of the Neapolitan Camorra was arrested while attending the wedding of an Irish mafia boss.

Italian justice is preparing an extradition request.

Van Gogh Lover

Raffale Imperiale, who is part of the Amato-Pagana clan within the Neapolitan crime syndicate, had left Italy for Amsterdam in the 1990s to run a coffee-shop, before joining forces with Dutch drug traffickers, according to the daily La Repubblica.

After being addicted to the traffic of ecstasy tablets, he set his sights on the more lucrative cocaine, importing tons of this drug into the Netherlands for the European market with the help of South American traffickers. , while managing restaurants and investment companies.

In 2016, Italian police discovered in a house in Naples belonging to him two Van Goghs that had been stolen 14 years earlier from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

These works, “Life of the Sea in Scheveningen” and “Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen”, had been stolen in a daring hold-up.

Police said Thursday that a Raffale Imperiale sidekick, Vincenzo Aprea, a well-known Camorra godfather currently in prison, was able to buy the paintings on the black market with drug money.

Source: leparis

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