Argentina has set a 20 million-peso reward for tips to locate Leonardo Bertulazzi, a former Red Brigades member who fled court-ordered confinement in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, the Buenos Aires Times reported.
The Buenos Aires Times said the National Security Ministry announced the offer through a resolution published in the Official Gazette. It valued the reward at about $13,000.
Italian authorities sought Bertulazzi's return to serve a 27-year prison term dating to 1987, with the sentence covering subversive association and membership in an armed organization, the newspaper reported. The Federal Criminal Cassation Court's ruling on a defense request took his age into account, the outlet said. It allowed him to continue home detention while the extradition case proceeded. Argentina's courts revoked his refugee status in 2024, according to the Buenos Aires Times.
The paper also described Bertulazzi as a senior Red Brigades member connected to preparations for the group's 1978 abduction of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro. The Red Brigades killed Moro.
