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The agents of Milan state police on Thursday 23 May they arrested a citizen of Bulgarian origin 50 years, on the run for over 10 yearsrecipient of an arrest warrant issued by the Bulgarian authorities for drug trafficking.
In particular, in recent weeks the service for international police cooperation had communicated the possible presence in the Milan area of a Bulgarian citizen who was the recipient of a European arrest warrant for drug trafficking issued in 2012. The agents of the anti-drug section of the team mobile of Milan started an investigation aimed at tracing him, immediately hypothesizing the use of false documents since with his real personal details the man had been checked in Italy for the last time in 2009. The police concentrated their searches against some acquaintances and relatives of the wanted man who live in the province of Milan and then to locate one of their vehicles filmed several times by cameras between the municipalities of Sesto San Giovanni and Cinisello Balsamo.
Last Thursday, the officers stopped and checked the vehicle which was driven by the fugitive whose home was later identified in Cinisello Balsamo in an apartment monitored by a camera and, inside, they also found and seized a dog swatter without a red cap, an Italian identity card, a Bulgarian identity card and a Bulgarian driving licence: all the documents have been certified be false by a scientific police report. The photo identification and comparison of the fingerprints taken at the Milan Police Headquarters definitively ascertained that the man tracked down was the actual recipient of the arrest order. The Bulgarian citizen was arrested and taken to the San Vittore prison, where he remains at the disposal of the Court of Appeal.
