Vito Bigione, 65enne, has just returned to Italy today, arrested a few days ago in Romania on the list of the most wanted fugitives 30.
The "accountant", boss of drug trafficking, apical exponent of the "family" of Mazara del Vallo (TP) has managed for years the drug routes between South America and Europe acting as a glue between Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta and South American cartels.
The investigations for the location of Bigione started from the Mobile Teams of the Police Headquarters of Trapani and Palermo and from the Central Operational Service, with the operational support of the SCIP - Service for International Police Cooperation together with the Security Expert stationed in Romania, and led the Romanian agents to capture the fugitive in the town of Orodea.
Upon arrival of Bigione in Ciampino, escorted by the Agents of the Criminalpol SCIP, the formalities of the arrest on the national territory will be completed in the Air Border Police Office, and will be immediately associated with the competent Prison at the disposal of the judicial authority. .
Vito Bigione definitively sentenced to 15 years for mafia and drografic traffic for his past from "narcos" had been included in the list of the most dangerous fugitive 30 in Italy, considered a prominent man of the Trapani mafia, and in particular that close to the super fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro.
The first charge for drug trafficking dates back to 1995 and a few months later he moved to Africa and settled in Namibia. He is accused of organizing the transport of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Brazil, Colombia and Namibia to Italy between 1992 and 2000. Loads financed by the mafia family Agate of Mazara del Vallo and the gang of Marando di Platì, Reggio Calabria.