Overview

• Police located Raiola in Sant Julià de Ramis and detained him on September 17 near Figueres under three European Arrest Warrants.
• Raiola, 34, had been on the run since August 6, 2024, after being sentenced in Italy to more than 30 years for large-scale drug trafficking and criminal organization membership.
• He is in provisional custody in a Catalan prison while extradition proceedings to Italy move forward.
• Investigators say he relied on false documents, multiple phones with Lithuanian and UK lines, and short-term rentals across Barcelona and Girona to avoid detection.
• Spanish fugitive-location units worked with Italy’s Carabinieri, with coordination reported by Naples’ anti-mafia prosecutors, and identified a Barcelona network of relatives and associates that maintained logistics.