(ANSA) Reggio Calabria, July 17 - Police arrested Thursday
long-sought 'Ndrangheta crime family boss Bruno Palamara on
charges of operating a vast drug smuggling ring supplying
Belgium, Holland and Germany from his base in Calabria, police
said.
Palamara, 51, tried to escape detection by showing a
counterfeit document in a false name when stopped by flying
squad and undercover officers while he was being driven by an
accomplice in a car on the A3 Salerno to Calabria motorway,
officers said.
Palamara is considered the head of the clan of the same
name operating in the towns of Africo, Bianco and Brancaleone in
the province of Reggio Calabria, police sources said.
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