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Top-100 Fugitive Ciro Andolfi Captured in Naples Apartment Hideout

A DDA-coordinated raid enforced an eight-year residual sentence, marking the 22nd fugitive capture by Naples Carabinieri this year.

Overview

  • Carabinieri investigators found the 49-year-old in a masonry bunker concealed inside a Barra apartment, with access hidden behind a wall-mounted radiator.
  • He had been wanted since 2022 under an incarceration order issued by the Prosecutor General at the Naples Court of Appeal.
  • The operation followed an investigation directed by the Naples anti-mafia directorate and involved a large-scale raid using specialized operational units.
  • The Interior Ministry had listed him among the 100 most dangerous fugitives.
  • Authorities link him to the Andolfi-Cuccaro Camorra clan in eastern Naples, and he must serve 8 years, 3 months and 10 days for mafia-type association, extortion aggravated by the mafia method, and corruption.