Mexican forces have detained a high-level member of the Italian mafia in Mexico, wanted for drug trafficking, the Federal Attorney General said on Friday.
Giulio Perrone, 64, who was on Italy’s most wanted list, was arrested in Ciudad Madero in the state of Tamaulipas on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of the country’s most violent areas, the attorney general (PGR) said in a statement.
Perrone was a fugitive from Italy for more than a decade after a court in Naples sentenced him to nearly 21 years in prison, the PGR said.
He was turned over to Italian authorities, the PGR said.
“There were some coordinated operations between Mexican traffickers and groups in the Italian mafia.
“It is normal in the criminal world for criminal organisations to collaborate on trafficking’’ said Antonio Mazzitelli, the U.N. representative on drugs and crime in Mexico said. (Reuters/NAN)