Luigi Esposito (criminal)
Luigi Esposito (born December 15, 1959 in Marano di Napoli), also known as Celeste, is an Italian criminal and a member of the Neapolitan Camorra.
Esposito was a member of the Nuvoletta clan and close to the boss Angelo Nuvoletta. He is considered to be the financial wizard of the clan. In 1981, he received his first conviction for illegal possession of firearms.[1]
In 2003, he became a fugitive, when arrest warrants were issued on charges of drug trafficking. During the investigations police discovered that he had constructed tourist resort in Tenerife, on the Canary Islands. In 2006, he was convicted and sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for drug trafficking and mafia association.[2] In 2005, his assets worth 1.5 million were seized.[1]
In July 2009, he was put on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy of the Italian ministry of the Interior.[3] He was arrested on November 7, 2009, in a luxury villa in Posillipo, a residential quarter of Naples.[2][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (Italian) L’ultimo dei ras è latitante dal 2003, Giornale di Napoli, July 16, 2009
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 (Italian) Camorra, arrestato superlatitante, La Repubblica, November 7, 2009
- ↑ (Italian) Direzione centrale della Polizia Criminale - Programma Speciale di Ricerca - Esposito Luigi
- ↑ Camorra boss arrested in Naples, BBC News, November 7, 2009
