Two European arrest warrants were active against him
In Italy the fugitive Mario Palamara, drug broker for the 'Ndrangheta, arrested in Spain
He was also wanted to serve a sentence of 14 years and 4 months for illicit drug trafficking and complicity in money laundering
3:21 pm

Mario Palamara , a prominent fugitive from the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta who was arrested last October 11 in Fuengirola (Spain), has arrived in Fiumicino from Spain .

53 years old, from Melito Porto Salvo (RC), to all intents and purposes broker of the 'Ndrangheta, was operating in Tuscany and more specifically at the port of Livorno and was wanted by judges and police forces from different parts of Italy since 2015.

Palamara was a man of weight in the world of drug trafficking and was one of the dominus for the port of Livorno to bring loads of tons of cocaine. This is why the prosecutor's office in Florence was looking for him, which also followed in his footsteps in Catanzaro, where the trafficking of Palamara ended up at the center of the "Molo 13" investigation, which revealed a cocaine import operation worth one million euros, passed through Holland. "Now we have entered into an industrial perspective", one of his men informed him, pleased with the departing load.

The arrest, in Spain, came about thanks to the profitable investigative synergy carried out between the Central Operational Service (SCO) of the State Police, the Central Service for Investigation of Organized Crime (SCICO) of the Guardia di Finanza, the Central Directorate for Anti-Drugs (DCSA), the International Police Cooperation Service – I-CAN Project (Interpol Cooperation Against 'Ndrangheta), the Udyco Central of the Spanish Policia Nacional.

Against him were active two European arrest warrants issued by the Florentine Judicial Authority at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate for crimes of criminal association aimed at the importation of narcotic substances and for the manufacture of false documents with the aggravating circumstance of the purpose of committing other crimes in relation to investigations conducted by the Mobile Squads of the Florence and Livorno Police Headquarters.

He was also wanted to serve a sentence of 14 years and 4 months for illicit drug trafficking and complicity in money laundering imposed on him by the Court of Appeal of Venice at the end of lengthy investigations conducted by the GICO of the Guardia di Finanza of Venice and coordinated by the District Directorate Antimafia of the Venetian capital.

Also in Catanzaro he was the recipient of an order for precautionary custody in prison issued by the GIP at the Court, at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate in relation to investigations conducted by the GICO, for international cocaine trafficking.

Palamara was handed over by the Spanish police to the agents of the I-CAN Project of the International Police Cooperation Service of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police, who handed it over to the Penitentiary Police.