The mob boss Vincenzo Schiavone, 37, alias "O copertone" and considered the "cashier" of the powerful clan of the Camorra Casalesi, was arrested today at a clinic in Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Avellino, Southern Italy, where he continued rehabilitation cure in the leg, police said. Schiavone, considered one of the hundred most dangerous fugitives Italian, had been hospitalized for six days.
At the time of the arrest he had no identity document and was recognized by the fingerprints. Apparently, none of the other hospitalized at the clinic, a small private health care facility, knew the identity of the mafia. Police are investigating whether the clinic address and we knew his identity concealed.
Schiavone was missing since 2008, when he escaped a police raid in which several dozen were detained Brawlers clan. Officers found in his computer all the accounts of the clan of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. The computer also had a list of all merchants and businessmen in the area were subjected to extortion.
Schiavone is known as "O copertone" for his habit of "signing" the killings perpetrated by burning the corpse of the victims of automobile tire casings. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, welcomed the arrest, which represents, according to an Interior Ministry statement, a new triumph of the state against the Camorra, "that with the capture of its cashier, the clan Casalesi is becoming weaker, as it is beaten in the heart of their economic interests.
" According to investigators, the "Casalesi" billed monthly about 300,000 euros from illicit activities. The Casalesi clan is considered the most powerful of the Neapolitan Camorra. Take the name of the town of Casal di Principe near Naples, an area in which they exercise that control. In June last year was arrested Nicola Schiavone, considered the heir to the clan after the arrest in 1998 of his father Francesco Schiavone, also nicknamed "Sandokan." This clan, inter alia, condemned to death the Italian writer Roberto Saviano, whose book "Gomorrah" revealed all the secrets of the illegal activities of the "Casalesi." 
At the time of the arrest he had no identity document and was recognized by the fingerprints. Apparently, none of the other hospitalized at the clinic, a small private health care facility, knew the identity of the mafia. Police are investigating whether the clinic address and we knew his identity concealed.
Schiavone was missing since 2008, when he escaped a police raid in which several dozen were detained Brawlers clan. Officers found in his computer all the accounts of the clan of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. The computer also had a list of all merchants and businessmen in the area were subjected to extortion.
Schiavone is known as "O copertone" for his habit of "signing" the killings perpetrated by burning the corpse of the victims of automobile tire casings. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, welcomed the arrest, which represents, according to an Interior Ministry statement, a new triumph of the state against the Camorra, "that with the capture of its cashier, the clan Casalesi is becoming weaker, as it is beaten in the heart of their economic interests.
" According to investigators, the "Casalesi" billed monthly about 300,000 euros from illicit activities. The Casalesi clan is considered the most powerful of the Neapolitan Camorra. Take the name of the town of Casal di Principe near Naples, an area in which they exercise that control. In June last year was arrested Nicola Schiavone, considered the heir to the clan after the arrest in 1998 of his father Francesco Schiavone, also nicknamed "Sandokan." This clan, inter alia, condemned to death the Italian writer Roberto Saviano, whose book "Gomorrah" revealed all the secrets of the illegal activities of the "Casalesi."
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