Edgardo Greco, a convicted Italian mafia boss who eluded law enforcement for 16 years, has been taken into custody. He was using a false name to work as a pizza cook.
The 63-year-old man is said to be a member of the infamous ‘Ndrangheta, a potent mafia group in Calabria, southern Italy.
He was discovered by police using a new identity while making pizza. He has even been highlighted in local publications under the guise of “an authentic Italian pizza maker.”
But one’s sin is like a shadow that follows them. In this brief post, let’s examine in depth how thw enforcement officers managed to apprehend the mafia leader.
Italian Mafia Boss Edgardo Greco Was Found As A Pizza Guy.
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Edgardo Greco formerly used a fictitious name to run an Italian restaurant, according to French prosecutors. He was detained on February 2, 2023, while working as a pizza cook in France, according to a statement from Interpol.
According to reports, Edgardo Greco fled in 2006. Up until the middle of the 2010s, the killer was completely untraceable.
Edgardo moved to Saint-Etienne in 2014 and started working in the restaurant industry. He acquired ownership of the Italian eatery Caffe Rossini Ristorante in 2021.
He ran the eatery till November of the same year. He worked under the name Paolo Dimitrio in other Italian restaurants in the city, according to papers obtained by Agence France-Presse.
A local news source purportedly highlighted the Caffe Rossini Ristorante’s launch in 2021, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page. However, it now seems that the account has been removed.
Greco also employed a fictitious identity while working evenings at a pizzeria.
The prosecution asserts that following the mafia boss’s early-morning detention, the investigating magistrate in Lyon formally notified him of Italy’s arrest order. He is now in custody.
Investigators from Italy and France obtained help from Interpol’s collaboration against “The Ndrangheta project” (I-Can), which fosters police cooperation among its 195 member states, to apprehend Greco.
The carabinieri led investigators to Saint-Etienne by tracking Greco’s network of sympathizers, according to the military police of Italy. The convicted murderer evaded Interpol and the French Police, who dispatched Italian Police to make the arrest.
Edgardo Greco received a life sentence in prison in
Edgardo Greco, who is also listed as a dangerous fugitive, was given a life sentence by an Italian court for the killings of Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo.
The Bartolomeo brothers allegedly died at a fish warehouse in January 1991 after being assaulted with iron bars, according to Italian authorities. Officials assume that they had been dissolved in acid since their remains have never been found.
He was also sought in connection with the attempted murder of gangster Emiliano Mosciaro. During a mafia conflict between the Pino Sena and Perna Pranno organizations in the early 1990s, he allegedly tried to murder Mosciaro.
Edgardo Greco’s Arrest Marks the Second High-Profile Italian Criminal Bust of the Year
Edgardo Greco is a member of the ‘Ndrangheta, which is the largest and most effective mafia organization in Italy.
The organization was multi-national and closely involved with the trafficking of cocaine from South America to Europe.
For a number of offenses, more than fifty persons have previously been under investigation.
MattseveralDenaro, the renowned Sicilian Cosa Nostra commander, was apprehended by Italian police last month. He was apprehended on January 16 at a cancer clinic in Palermo after more than 30 years on the lam.
Jurgen Stock, the secretary general of Interpol, said in a statement that offenders “can’t evade justice forever, no matter how hard they try to live a quiet life abroad.”
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