National Police agents have arrested in Orihuela (Alicante, 85,600 inhabitants) to Simone Bartiromo, aka Jetcataloged by the Italian authorities as one of the 100 most dangerous fugitives in the transalpine country, as reported on Thursday by the Ministry of Interior. Bartirom broker or intermediary for its ability to treat the purchase of large amounts of hashish and cocaine from producers and organize the distribution of vines to their country. Italian justice, which accuses Jet of four drug trafficking crimes for what is requested 24 years in prison, had issued a European arrest and delivery order against him in January 2024, is a judicial mechanism that facilitates rapid delivery between EU states of criminals accused of serious crimes.
The investigation that has led to the arrest of the alleged capo of the Camorra began in May of last year, when the Carabinieri contacted with requesting their collaboration in the suspicion that Bartirom In a coffee cargo – it could have taken refuge in Spain and, more specifically, in Barcelona. They underpin this suspicion. The investigations allowed to know that, indeed, he had been in the Catalan capital, but also in Malaga and Alicante, since he changed his home regularly.
Finally, the agents located Bartyrome in a Chalet in La Zenia, a single -family housing area of Orihuela, where he lived with his current partner. Last Wednesday, when leaving home to get on a vehicle parked at the door, he was arrested by the police without resistance. At the time of the arrest he carried 4,000 euros in cash, according to sources close to the investigation. The agents that arrested him assured them that he had been in Spain for three years and that he changed home every two months. He also showed his willingness to be delivered to the Italian authorities, since, he said, he had “enemies” in Spain. According to the sources consulted, Jet insistently asked the agents who, with his betrayal, had facilitated his arrest.
According to Italian authorities, Bartyrome exercised from his refuge on the Costa Blanca as an intermediary in drug trafficking thanks to his contacts with Albanian and Spanish criminal groups. The clans for those who supposedly worked are considered responsible for the supply of cocaine and hashish in certain neighborhoods of Naples, in addition to other locations in the bells as well as in areas of the island of Sicily (Palermo and Catania) and the Apulia region (Foggia and Brindisi). He is also accused of providing other criminal organizations settled in Europe.
