One of the leaders of the feared Calabrian mafia the ‘Ndrangheta, Pasquale Bonavota, has been arrested this Thursday, police sources have announced.
Bonavota, 49, a fugitive since November 2018 and accused of murder and mafia association by Calabria judges, has been arrested in the port city of Genoa, the Carabinieri Corps reported in a statement.
The ‘capo’ of the Bonavota clan, along with two brothers, was going to enter a church when he was arrested by the police, to whom he presented false documentation when they asked him to identify himself.
The clan, based in the Calabrian province of Vibo Valentia, was dedicated to money laundering in addition to drug trafficking through investments in cryptocurrencies and operated in Rome and in the northern regions, Piedmont and Liguria.
The ‘Ndrangheta, considered the richest and most powerful mafia in Italy, controls the entry of cocaine into Europe.
Present in more than 40 countries, it has expanded and now uses companies and front men to invest illegal profits in the formal economy.
Pasquale Bonavota fled after being sentenced by a court to life imprisonment for two murders committed in 2004 and 2014. The sentence had been annulled in 2021 by the appeal court, while he was a fugitive.
The arrest of the mobster comes three months after the capture of the leader of the Sicilian mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro, who had been a fugitive for 30 years.
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