ROME (AFP) -- Spanish police have arrested a suspected mafia boss sentenced in Italy since 2003 over a double homicide, in a joint operation with Italian officers, the caribinieri said Sunday.

Patrizio Bosti was arrested overnight Saturday at Platja d'Aro, near Girona, in Catalonia, eastern Spain, said the caribinieri in Naples.
Bosti, thought to be the leader of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, was sentenced to 23 years in jail by an Italian court for a double homicide carried out in 1984. He featured on Italy's 30 most wanted fugitives.
Bosti was not armed when police arrested him in a restaurant, but he was carrying 24,000 euros on him, the ANSA news agency reported.
The Camorra is one of the four Italian mafia, or organized crime groups, a network of dozens of often-rival family operation.
It has around 5,000 active members and is active in drugs and arms trafficking, prostitution, racketeering and the waste disposal business.