Italian police on Thursday arrested
the suspected Italian pointman of a Colombian drug cartel.
The 59-year-old drug trafficker from Sarzana near La Spezia in
Liguria was arrested in Quito, the Ecuadoran capital, by finance
police from Genoa.
The man, Antonio Dalcielo, is facing a 10-year jail sentence in
Italy.
He is set to be extradited, finance police sources said.
Dalcielo has a history of offences regarding the South
America-Europe cocaine trade.
That traffic is controlled by Italy's richest and most powerful
mafia, the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta.
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