*** Italian police have arrested Mose Esposito who allegedly is tied to the notorious Giuseppe Setola. Setola is the alleged head of a "murder squad" run by the Casalesi clan of the Camorra or Neapolitan Mafia. Esposito also is the step-brother of a jailed Camorrista suspected of partipating in the massacre ordered by Setola of six West African immigrants last September near Caserta.
*** Spanish police have arrested Marco Assegnati, a reputed leader of the Camorra, in the central Spanish town of Escalona where he "was living in a chalet . . . and running his clan's criminal activities":
Assegnati was on the Italian Foreign Ministry's list of the 100 most wanted mobsters. The suspect was the subject of a Europe-wide arrest warrant for belonging to an organization engaged in trafficking drugs and arms, as well as participating in extortion schemes and other criminal activities. * * * Assegnati had been in Spain since at least 2003 and operated an auto sales business based in Madrid. The reputed mobster also owned a dealership in the northwestern Spanish city of Vigo, where he traveled regularly to throw both police and members of rival clans within the Camorra off his trail.
*** In Israel "Aviv Abutbul, son of alleged crime family head Charlie Abutbul, is expected to be indicted for illegal possession of a firearm":
Abutbul was arrested by the National Fraud Unit during a December 11 raid on his home. The raid uncovered an improvised gun that was loaded and equipped with a silencer.
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