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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/top-mafia-boss-arrested-in-italy.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Antonio Iovine is suspected to be the Camorra crime syndicate's top fugitive boss (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-top-mafia-boss-arrested-in-italy.jpg" alt="Antonio Iovine is suspected to be the Camorra crime syndicate's top fugitive boss (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Police in southern Italy have captured one of Italy&#8217;s most-wanted fugitive mobsters, who was considered the financial brains behind the bloodiest of Camorra crime syndicate clans.</p>
<p>Antonio Iovine, 46, nicknamed &#8220;&#8216;o ninno'&#8221; (dialect for &#8220;the baby&#8221;) for his youthful looks, grinned at crowds outside Naples police headquarters as he was hustled from a squad car into the building.</p>
<p>A convicted boss of the Casalesi crime family, Iovine had been on the run for 14 years. He was arrested with virtually no resistance after being found hiding in a crawl space in an apartment in Casal di Principe, a town near Caserta which is the Casalesi stronghold, police said.</p>
<p>Prosecutors told reporters at a news conference in Naples that bugged telephone lines helped narrow the search for Iovine. &#8220;He never left his territory. A real boss never leaves his territory,&#8221; Naples police chief Santi Giuffre said.</p>
<p>In an idea of the Casalesi&#8217;s clout on Italy&#8217;s organised crime scene, police have seized about two billion euros (£1.7 billion) worth of assets allegedly illegally gained by its members over the last few years.</p>
<p>Investigators contend that the Casalesi family runs a lucrative illegal business in transporting and disposing of tons of toxic waste, a murky world explored in the book and film Gomorrah.</p>
<p>Other moneymakers for the crime clan are numbers rackets, extortion, drug trafficking, smuggling of illegal migrants and arms. Prosecutors have also alleged the clan has infiltrated a produce wholesale complex between Naples and Rome that is one of Europe&#8217;s biggest fruit and vegetable markets, as well as numerous cement companies.</p>
<p>Iovine was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder and criminal association.</p>
<p>A crackdown on the Casalesi branch of the Camorra led to the capture of several other top bosses in the last few years, but one still remains at large &#8211; Michele Zagaria, who, along with Iovine, was reputedly the top lieutenant of charismatic convicted Camorra boss Francesco Schiavone.</p>
<p>Nicknamed Sandokan after the hero of a series of pirate adventure books in Italy, Schiavone is believed to still control the Casalesi clan from behind bars.</p>
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