{"id":60470,"date":"2025-07-12T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60470\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:39:12","slug":"alleged-leader-of-italian-mafia-arrested-in-colombia-accused-of-overseeing-cocaine-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60470\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged leader of Italian mafia arrested in Colombia, accused of overseeing cocaine shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian authorities said Friday they captured an alleged leader of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/ndrangheta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Italian &#8216;ndrangheta mafia<\/a>\u00a0in Latin America who is accused of overseeing cocaine shipments and managing illegal trafficking routes to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the suspect as Giuseppe Palermo, also known as &#8220;Peppe,&#8221; an Italian who was wanted under an Interpol red notice, which called for his arrest in 196 countries.<\/p>\n<p>He was apprehended on the street in Colombia&#8217;s capital, Bogota, during a coordinated operation between Colombian, Italian and British authorities, as well as Europol, the European Union&#8217;s law enforcement agency, according to an official report.<\/p>\n<p>Palermo is believed to be part of &#8220;one of the most tightly knit cells&#8221; of the &#8216;ndrangheta mafia, said Carlos Fernando Triana, head of the Colombian police, in a message posted on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a1\ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddec\ud835\udde2\u0301 \ud835\uddd8\ud835\udddf \ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd4\u0301\ud835\uddeb\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde0\ud835\udde2 \ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddd5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd6\ud835\udddc\ud835\udddf\ud835\udddf\ud835\uddd4 \ud835\uddd7\ud835\uddd8 \ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddd9\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd4 \ud835\udddc\ud835\udde7\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udddf\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd4 \ud835\uddd8\ud835\udde1 \ud835\uddd4\ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd8\u0301\ud835\udde5\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddd4 \ud835\udddf\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udde7\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd4! En Bogot\u00e1, en desarrollo de la ofensiva contra el multicrimen y el delito, la  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliciaColombia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PoliciaColombia<\/a> , en coordinaci\u00f3n con <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Europol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Europol<\/a> y autoridades del Reino Unido e\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pa3dZ2fn8g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/pa3dZ2fn8g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor general Carlos Fernando Triana Beltr\u00e1n (@DirectorPolicia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DirectorPolicia\/status\/1943783368404963543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8216;ndrangheta, one of Italy&#8217;s most powerful and secretive criminal organizations, has extended its influence abroad and is widely accused of importing cocaine into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect &#8220;not only led the purchase of large shipments of cocaine in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, but also controlled the maritime and land routes used to transport the drugs to European markets,&#8221; Triana added.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal cocaine production reached 3,708 tons in 2023, an increase of nearly 34% from the previous year, driven mainly by the expansion of coca leaf cultivation in Colombia, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colombian authorities said Friday they captured an alleged leader of the\u00a0Italian &#8216;ndrangheta mafia\u00a0in Latin America who is accused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12575,4219,2219,43765,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-60470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-colombia","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-ndrangheta","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114842197290861615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}