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Nicolás Matías del Ríothe 48-year-old Argentine truck driver who was missing more than a month ago in the town of Castel del Pino, Italy, appeared dead. The body was on a cliff near a house in Arcidossoin the region of Tuscany, reported the local media The Nazione.
After having been seen for the last time on May 22, his family had begun a search through multiple channels, especially in groups of Argentines in the European country. His sister-in-law had made a post on Facebook in which she asked for help to try to find the man’s whereabouts. “Nico has to show up! We will wait for you. There are no kilometers apart if we are all united spreading the word”he had expressed in the post.
The victim’s job consisted of removing luxury handbags from factories to take them to a warehouse and, later, delivering the merchandise to different nearby cities. The last time he had contact with his wife and mother of the 9-year-old son they had in common, he was on a tour that was already usual for him. The day after the disappearance, The van he was traveling in was found burned..
According to the local media, police officers found part of the cargo that Del Río was transporting in the vicinity of where it appeared, equivalent to half a million euros in bags from the renowned luxury brand Gucci.
The hypothesis of the cause was framed in a investigation for “robbery, voluntary manslaughter and kidnapping”. The Grosseto prosecutor’s office charged the only three arrested in the case: Klodjan Gjoni, a 33-year-old Albanian, and the Turks Ozgur Bozkurt, 44, and Kaia Emre, 28.
The local site explained that Gjoni – who was pointed out as the “mastermind” of the plan that ended with the murdered Argentine – was captured by the Carabineros Arma (the Italian State security agency) when I was about to escape on a plane in Ciampinoin Rome.
According to what the investigators were able to reconstruct, Gjoni would have intercepted Del Río while he was making his journey with the excuse of ask you to meet you at a nearby location due to the breakdown of your own vehicle. Kilometers later, in an isolated area of the countryside, Bozkurt and Emre would have joined in to attack the victim, steal his cargo and then set the vehicle on fire to erase the tracks.
In addition, two new suspects were added to the complaint: Niko Gjoni, Klodian’s father, and Zindan Bozkurt, Ozgur’s relative. The Italian authorities targeted the family of the Albanian man, because remains of the wallets that Del Río was carrying were found in “Case Sallustri”, the house owned by Klodian’s father.
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