So, I made a research
about who are (or were) the most wanted
fugitives in the world because I think it’s important to know who can
potentially hide among us.
Since there are so many, I had to pick up a few and I decided to write about 5 of them.
1. The last of Cosa Nostra: Matteo Messina Denaro
After the capture in
2006 of the last head of the Italian mafia Bernardo Provenzano, Denaro has
become its last leader. But he’s been hiding since 1993: no one has a clue
about where he could be. We have nothing that helps his capture: no
fingerprints, no voice recordings and his last picture dates back to the 90s. The
only thing we have is an identikit based on the information of the last people
who saw him.
Denaro, nicknamed
Diabolic, is known for his luxurious life: he loves art, reading, expensive
clothes, Rolex watches and fancy cars. He is also said to be very handsome and
talented: he’s quite different from the typical rural Italian mafia boss.
In 2002, he was
sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for the role he had in the bombing
in Via d’Amelio.
He’s believed to hide
in Sicily, in Castelvetrano, his native place. However, investigators are quite
sure that he went abroad to have major plastic surgery to his face and
fingerprints and he would now be unrecognizable.
2. Felicien Kabuga, the financer behind
the Rwanda genocide
Though he was
arrested in France in 2020, I still decided to put him in this list because
he’s been a fugitive for 23 years.
Kabuga was the most
wanted man in Africa and is considered responsible for one of the world’s most
atrocious genocide happened in Rwanda in 1994.
He was a cruel extremist
blinded by race hatred. However, he was very close to the president of Rwanda, Habyarimana,
in fact, he was his financer.
Together with other
extremists, Kabuga raised money and funds to prepare and conduct the massacre.
He also ran a radio station, a strong means of propaganda that was used to
incite violence against Tutsi, a minority in Rwanda.
3. JoaquìnGuzmàn, or El Chapo
After escaping prison
twice, he was eventually captured in 2016. He managed to escape prisons because
of his corrupting power on guards. He used to organise parties with his
friends, received prostitutes as visitors and, through couriers and cellphones,
he kept directing and controlling the activity of his organisation. They say he controlled prison so widely that he could
have escaped from the main door.
Born of a poor
family, Guzmàn had to face physical abuse from his father, who introduced him
to the world of drug trade by teaching him to cultivate marijuana.
Then, he became the leader
of the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime organisation, named after his
poor native place, where he had his commercial base. He’s considered to have
been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world: his patrimony amounts
to 14 billion dollars.
The Sinaloa Cartel
monitored drug traffic to the US, where cocaine was becoming more and more
popular. Traitors, enemies, everyone who hindered his rise, were all killed with atrocious cruelty.
4. Dawood
Ibrahim: the head of Indian crime network
He’s India’s most
wanted man. He’s a drug dealer, boss of the Indian mafia and a terrorist.
Ibrahim is the head of an Indian crime organisation called D-Company, founded
in Mumbai in the late 70s. The organisation is involved in everything from drug
traffic to contract killing in Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates.
According to investigators, the D-Company uses the same smuggling pathways as
al-Qaeda and perhaps they even worked together.
His name is connected
to several serious terrorist attacks, like the one in Mumbai in 1993, which
killed 257 people and wounded more than 700. He’s said to be the mind behind
the attack since he knew Mumbai very well: there was the place where he began
his rise to international crime.
5. Semion Mogilevich,
the Brainy Don
Born Ukrainian, he’s
now a citizen of four different countries: Russia, Israel, Greece and Hungary. He
is believed to be the ultimate “boss of the bosses” of Russian mafia
organizations all over the world. He’s considered as the most dangerous
criminal in the world. Some believe that he has links with the ex-mayor of
Moscow and with the current Russian president Vladimir Putin.
He's currently
charged for extortion, weapons and drug trafficking, contract murders, money
laundering and prostitution on an international scale.
In 2009 Mogilevich
was arrested for tax evasion and then released because the charge against him
wasn’t a public menace. He is now living freely in Moscow, was removed from the
FBI’s most wanted list because he lives in a country that doesn’t have an extradition
treaty with the USA, and he’s no longer
considered an immediate threat to the community. Although he’s been removed
from the list, he still is under investigation for an ultimate arrest.
MARIA D., 5sc
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