On Monday afternoon, in Malaga (Spain), it was tA man of Croatian origin, recipient of a European arrest warrant (Mae) issued by the investigating judge of Reggio Calabria for serious crimes, including the association aimed at international traffic of drugs, as part of the “Arangea bis” operation.
The important result is the result of a complex investigative activity conducted by the carabinieri of the investigative nucleus of the provincial command of Reggio Calabria and the first investigative department of the Ros and coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria directed by dr. Giuseppe Lombardowho developed a dense information network, transmitted to the I-CAN unit (Interpol Cooperation Against ‘Ndrangheta) of the International Police Cooperation of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police.
Following yesterday’s operation – during which 19 precautionary measures were carried out against subjects deemed responsible, in various capacities, of crimes such as association aimed at drug trafficking, detention and illegal port of weapons, use of illegal money and extortion aggravated by the mafia method – the research of man, initially concentrated in Croatia, his country of origin, were extended thanks to the investigative inputs provided. from the weapon.
In particular, the developments obtained by the carabinieri were fundamental, who identified that some family members of the fugitive, including the mother and sister, who were about to start from Milan Malpensa airport with destination Malaga. Underwear that the family was heading right from the wanted person, an urgent cross -border request (OTU) to the Undyco Central of the Spanish Polycía Nacional was immediately activated with the military of the weapon.
Thanks to the timely cooperation between the carabinieri and the Spanish authorities, the Audyco agents They followed the family members once landed in Spain, thus managing to locate the refined and arrested him yesterday afternoon in Malaga.
In the same hours, in Reggio Calabria, the carabinieri also arrested the last man wanted on the national territory, thus completing the execution of all the precautionary measures arranged in the context of the “Arangea bis” operation.
The capture of the last two men confirms the effectiveness of the action of the Carabinieri weapon on the opposite of the transnational mafias and the importance of international cooperation in the fight against organized crime.