He was a fugitive for seven years on a paradise beach …

A senior Italian mafia official was arrested on Monday in the Dominican Republic in an unusual way, because He had been on the run for seven years and his hobby of posting videos with his Italian cooking lessons ended up betraying him.

This is Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, who He led a bucolic life in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, where he was known for his passion for cooking and YouTube videos. in which he explained, with his wife, without ever showing his face, recipes of Italian cuisine.

Boca Chica is a municipality in the province of Santo Domingo, with a paradisiacal beach called La Caleta, in the bay of Andrés, on the east coast of the Caribbean island.

Biart He had been on the run since 2014 following the arrest order of the Italian public prosecutor’s office for cocaine trafficking on behalf of the Cacciola clan of the ‘Ndrangheta, the dreaded Calabrian mafia.

In his food videos, Biart hid his face, but another of his passions allowed him to be located. It’s that he had a lot of tattoos, and in one of his videos he failed to hide them well and that became a key part for them to find out.

Biart, arrested on Wednesday, arrived on Monday escorted by the police at Milan airport (northern Italy) from Santo Domingo.

The arrest was made possible thanks to the authorities of the Central Directorate of the Italian Criminal Police in collaboration with Interpol, which created a special international group for the fight against ‘Ndrangheta, an organization with branches all over the world.

The Calabrian mafia is seen as the intermediary of cocaine trafficking thanks to a privileged relationship with the Latin American drug cartels, according to reports by the anti-mafia committee of the Italian Parliament.