Olinto Bonalumi, 64 years old from Foggia, had been on the list of dangerous fugitives since 2022. Today the state police arrested him in Rome. Bonalumi is sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for extortion, theft and robbery among other things: in the past he has carried out several thefts from maximum security vaults. He would also be associated with the Foggia mafia organisations.
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He was arrested in Rome after almost four years on the run Olinto Bonalumia 664-year-old from Foggia, wanted since 2021 and included in the list of dangerous fugitives in 2022 – the list of the Ministry of the Interior which includes around fifty people accused of serious crimes or associated with mafia organisations. After long investigations coordinated by the District Prosecutor’s Office of Bari, carrying out an arrest order from the Prosecutor General’s Office at the Court of Appeal of Ancona, today the police arrested Bonalumi in Rome, in Viale Europa (Eur area).
The man must serve 13 years, four months and 11 days in prison for the crimes of extortion, unauthorized access to computer systems, fraudulent interception of conversations, theft and robbery. According to what emerged from the investigations, he would also be connected to the mafia organizations of the so-called Foggia Society. Among the crimes for which Bonalumi was convicted there are also several maximum security vault theftsbelonging to banks or supervisory institutes.
A conviction for Bonalumi, in the trial called ‘Goldfinger’, arrived in September 2023. The case was that of the theft which occurred in 2012 at the former Banco di Napoli, in Foggia. Valuable items and cash were stolen approximately 15 million eurosemptying hundreds of the safety deposit boxes present. Another conviction, in first instance, came in 2011 for a theft of over 5 million euros from the vault of the NP Service surveillance institute which occurred in 2008.
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But the fugitive’s ‘fame’ was much earlier: already in the eighties and nineties he had been indicated as possibly responsible for some robberies of jewelery shops, cash vans and more, only to be later acquitted. In 1999 he was arrested because he was identified by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate as a person involved in a cigarette smuggling operation. In 2000 for external competition in a mafia association. Even in these cases he was acquitted.
In 2013, Bonalumi’s name also ended up in an investigation by the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office on yacht theft and receiving stolen goods for the black market aimed abroad. The Foggia native was arrested with a precautionary custody order, together with his ‘right-hand man’ Federico De Matteis, who was also convicted in the Goldfinger case.
In the past, Bonalumi has already spent time in prison on several occasions. In one case this occurred after a conviction for corruption and attempted extortion against public officials: he had masterminded a robbery in the vault of the Bank of Italy in Anconain 2012, which could have led to up to 200 million euros in stolen goods, replacing the real banknotes with fake copies to delay the discovery of the theft. He was arrested in Fermo, in his residence, while organizing the coup.
The list of crimes for which the Foggiano has been investigated is long. Currently on Bonalumi penis a imprisonment order for cumulation of sentences. As mentioned, the total is 13 years, four months and 11 days. In January 2021 he disappeared, and the search began. Which ended today.
“The results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of the work and the patient and incessant commitment of those who work to guarantee the security of our country”, declared the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi. “It is a strong and clear signal: the State is present wherever there is a need to fight crime and illegality. My thanks go to all the women and men of the police forces for the professionalism and sense of duty demonstrated”.
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