Spanish police said on Monday they had arrested three “extremely dangerous” suspected mobsters wanted by Italy for crimes including attempted murder, arms trafficking and money laundering.
Police statement he said the suspects were “one of the heads of a dangerous family clan” of the Neapolitan Camorra, his son and his son-in-law, without naming the three.
They were recently arrested in the southern Spanish coastal city of Marbella, where many members of the international crime group have settled in recent years. Police posted a video on social media, showing officers separately following three suspects who appeared to be handcuffed.
The investigation began when Spanish police discovered that the head of the clan, wanted for money laundering, had fled to Spain from Italy.
He was followed to a house in Marbella equipped with “extensive security features” that he almost never left, the statement said.
The police first arrested the son, who faces up to 30 years in prison and is accused of attempted murder and arms trafficking, when he left the house to go downtown.
Police said the son made several evasive maneuvers to avoid detection by police before being arrested.
Then on Sunday, police caught the crime boss and his son-in-law as they were leaving the fortified home, the statement added.
The latter faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of drug trafficking and tobacco smuggling.
“Within the Neapolitan Camorra, those arrested are considered ‘men of honor’ because they adhere to a strict code of conduct,” police said in news.
The action was carried out with the help of the Italian police.
Last October, Italian police announced the arrest in Colombia of Luigi Belvedere, a fugitive accused of being an intermediary between the Latin American country drug cartels and the Neapolitan mafia. In the announcement of his arrest, the Italian police posted a photo from Belvedere visiting the grave Pablo Escobar founder and head of the Medellin cartel, who was killed by the police in 1993.