Italian Mobster Caught in Bucharest

Yesterday, the Bucharest Police have captured a member of the La Camorra Neapolitan Mob, a drug dealer wanted by the Italian authorities.

According to the GPD (General Police Department), the Italian dealer was hiding in the Bucurestii Noi neighborhood, where he was living without being registered. The police officers established the Italian citizen entered the country at the beginning of 2004 using a false identity card. The drug dealer was an associate of two other Italians and one Romanian at a company in Romania.

DANGEROUS The Italian authorities wanted Di Noia Augusto for the rest of five years and three months, the prison time he had left to do out of a six-year conviction for drug dealing. The data the Romanian Police received from the Italian authorities show that Di Noia Augusto is a member La Camorra crime organization, which operates in his native country as well as in other countries in Europe, with the main purpose of illegal producing and dealing of drugs. The Romanians have started looking for the Italian since the 9th of August 2005.

Di Noia Augusto is to be brought in front of the Bucharest Appeal Court where the temporary bench warrant on his name would be released for him to be sent back into his country. (Radu Crivat)