A joint operation by Colombian police, Europol and the Italian carabinieri has led to the capture of Italian Gustavo “Hermes” Nocella, one of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, in northwestern Colombia, Colombian police director William Rene Salamanca Ramirez said.
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“The billiard table gave away the next “godfather” of the Italian mafia! We caught in Medellin one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the world, Italian Gustavo Nocella, pseudonym “Hermes”, the main link between the Rinaldi-Formicola, Amato-Pagano and De Micco clans with the South American mafia, especially Colombian, for the purpose of trafficking in large quantities of drugs,” General Salamanca wrote in his blog in X.
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The Italian was subject to an Interpol red form, issued at the request of the Naples anti-drug service in connection with charges of conspiracy to sell drugs.
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According to the Colombian police director, as part of the international law enforcement operation “Minerva”, in coordination with Europol, the Italian carabinieri and the authorities of the United
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Kingdom, it was established that Nocella had settled in Colombia after fleeing Europe. After six months of training, police special forces captured him in his apartment in Medellin, northwestern Colombia.
