Arrested in Italy, a leader of the Neapolitan Camorra
Giuseppe Simioli, head of the 'Polverino clan', lived on horseback between his country of origin and Spain

Efe / Madrid 28.08.2017 | 11:27
Agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Carabinieri Weapon have arrested in Italy the leader of the "clan Polverino" of the Neapolitan camorra, Giuseppe Simioli, alias "Peruociolo", in search and capture since 2010 and that Lived on horseback between his country of origin and Spain.

According to the Directorate General of the Civil Guard, the arrested had four arrest warrants and faces in Italy requests for 24 years in prison for crimes of illicit association, drug trafficking and arms trafficking .

The first investigations against the clan began in the year 2009, when the Benemérita began to look for its clan leaders who lived between Spain and Italy.

After the arrest in 2012 of the leader of the band, Giuseppe Polverino, the agents focused their investigation on Giuseppe Simioli, who was suspected that had taken the reins of this clan of the camorra.

In order to obtain information about their whereabouts, the investigators focused the monitoring and control work on residents or temporary visitors in Spain who could maintain some kind of relationship with Simioli.

In this way, a woman who had a relationship with him was located and discovered that she alternated a month of residence in Spain with three in Italy and that she adopted several measures of security during her travels, such as constantly changing vehicles.

The same method continued in May of this year to travel from Barcelona to a locality to the south of Rome, where it was stopped thanks to the collaboration between the agents of the UCO and the Carabinieri.

Since 2008, the UCO has detained in Spain more than 100 members of Italian organizations - Camorra, "Cosa Nostra", l'Ndrangueta - and collaborates with the Italian security forces, who have detained more than 400 members of these Clans.