In Colombia, the escape of the Camorra member Belvedere was foiled. The boss was transferred from the prison of Medellin to that of Bogota

He had been arrested on October 25, his movement following the discovery of a plan organized with the help of a local clan: he was supposed to pretend to be ill and be picked up during transport to the hospital.

Camorra boss Luigi Belvedere, arrested in Colombia on October 25, was transferred today from Medellin prison to Bogota after police discovered an escape plan organized with the help of a local clan.

This was reported by the Chief of Police, General William Salamanca, assuring that, according to intelligence sources, Belvedere had offered a sum of 750 thousand dollars to members of the Golfo clan, one of the main drug cartels operating in the country. The escape plan, Salamanca said, involved Belvedere pretending to be ill in order to be taken to the hospital and picked up on the way by a commando of the Golfo clan.

The boss - whose arrest followed by a few days that of another prominent Camorra figure, Gustavo Nocella, also in Medellin - was then transferred by plane to the prison in Bogota, where he will remain until the extradition requested by the anti-mafia prosecutor's office in Naples.

Belvedere was definitively sentenced to 18 years for international drug trafficking and is considered one of the intermediaries, together with Nocella, between the Colombian cartels and the Casalesi clan.