Fugitives arrested abroad: Synergic action between the Attorney General's Office and the Carabinieri of Ancona

Since September 2024, the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Operational Department of Ancona have been collaborating with the magistrates of the Attorney General's Office at the Court of Appeal of Ancona for the capture of fugitives located abroad and subject to a definitive conviction.

The increase and synergic coordination of the search activity for fugitives was born on the initiative of the Attorney General Dr. Roberto Rossi, who found immediate support from the Provincial Commander of the Carabinieri of Ancona, Col. Roberto Di Costanzo, and developed through a preventive analysis activity of the SIEP files (Criminal Enforcement Information System) containing execution orders for imprisonment following sentences which have resulted in the definitive sentence to imprisonment of individuals who have committed serious crimes and who have evaded justice by emigrating to foreign countries.

Thus putting into a system all the information already acquired from the departments of the police forces that carried out the investigations against the convicted and their subsequent location abroad, with a documentation analysis activity of PG in the records, of verification on telematic channels (social networks and open sources) carried out by exploiting the skills of the "Cyber ​​Investigation" Section of the Carabinieri Investigative Unit, of recent photo acquisition and matching through the automatic image comparison system called Sari, as well as activating all the necessary provisions for the internationalization of Italian executive provisions, it has thereforethey managed to narrow down the scope of the research and identify the foreign locations on which to direct the search activities entrusted to the police forces of those countries.

Therefore, the fundamental thing was thecoordination and information exchange work with foreign law enforcement agencies through direct contact with their referents or through the Service for International Police Cooperation (SCIP). This joint effort has allowed us to accelerate all procedures for sharing available information and to request searches by the police bodies of the foreign countries involved, conveying them directly and without bureaucratic burdens, the information necessary for locating fugitives and carrying out the measures (European Arrest Warrants – EAW). The efforts made in this synergistic action, has already produced the location abroad and the arrest of 3 fugitives. In particular, these are:

– KG, Albanian born in 1978 (Measure in charge of the Mantua Flying Squad).
Arrested on 25 September 2024 by the Tirana Police following collaboration with SCIP, the Office of the Expert for Security in Albania and the Albanian Police. The same must serve a sentence of 5 years, 11 months and 3 days of imprisonment for the crimes of aggravated home theft, aggravated receiving of stolen goods, possession and production of false documents, and carrying weapons.

On 2 August 2018 he was released from the Mantua District Prison and handed over to the personnel of the immigration office of the Mantua Police Headquarters who proceeded to execute the expulsion order of the Mantua Supervisory Magistrate, boarding him on the Bologna-Tirana flight. Subsequently he was no longer registered on Italian territory. Following direct contacts between the Investigative Unit of Ancona and the expert for security in Albania, the person being captured was located and arrested on Albanian territory. The man was extradited last December 23.

– TC, from Puglia, born in 1990 (Measure in charge of the Carabinieri Company of Ancona).
Arrested on 1 December 2024 in Tenerife (Spain) by the Guardia Civil thanks to the collaboration, through SCIP, with the Spanish police. On 18 May 2023 he was convicted by the Court of Appeal of Ancona for gang rape (because in competition, he committed acts of gang rape of a 15 year old, abusing the conditions of physical and mental inferiority in which the offended person found himself, having drunk a quantity of alcoholic beverages such as to cause an evident mental and physical weakening, induced him to perform and undergo sexual acts), an act committed in Ancona, Portonovo, on 20 July 2009.

He must serve a sentence of 6 years, 7 months and 20 days in prison for gang rape and the illicit production, sale and purchase of narcotics. The Ancona Company had identified the subject in French territory. The French collateral had then reported that the man had moved to Spain for work reasons. The wanted man, after his arrest, was extradited to Italy on 11 December 2024 and transferred to Rebibbia prison (end of sentence 20.07.2031).

– ID, Nigerian born in 1973 (Provision in charge of the Carabinieri Investigative Unit of Macerata).
Arrested on January 3, 2025 in the Netherlands. The same must serve a sentence of 12 years, 7 months and 5 days of imprisonment for criminal association aimed at drug trafficking, for acts committed in Ancona, Porto Recanati, Turin and Spanish territory in periods prior to May 2004. The woman had been sentenced to 13 years and 7 months of imprisonment by a ruling of the Court of Appeal of Ancona on 11 July 2023. Given the period of detention in pre-trial detention already served between 22.04.2008 and 16.04.2009, She had 12 years, 7 months and 5 days of prison left to serve.

Her criminal responsibility had emerged during an investigation by the Investigative Unit of Macerata: the point of reference had been identified at a commercial activity in Porto Recanati, run by a compatriot of the woman. The investigations had revealed a large movement of money via Western Union between the individuals investigated for criminal association aimed at international drug trafficking.

The Investigative Unit of Macerata, through the documentation requested from Western Union, had ascertained a movement of capital carried out by the wanted person in the month of September 2023 in the French town of St. Louis, on the border with Switzerland, in addition to the address provided by the same, its French user name and an email address. Further investigations conducted by the Investigative Unit of Ancona, Cyber ​​Section, allowed to verify that the captured woman had a Paypal account. From the checks carried out, two email addresses were extrapolated and through web scraping it was possible to trace the two Facebook profiles used by the woman.

Monitoring them allowed the acquisition of updated images of the wanted person and the identification of her commercial activity as a hairdresser advertised on her social profileThe updated information was shared with the French police, who in turn collected concrete elements on the woman's presence in the Netherlands, sharing them with their colleagues in the Netherlands. She was then arrested on January 3, 2025 by the Dutch Police in the Amsterdam district. She has not yet been extradited to Italy.