One of the delinquents the most wanted by Italy, but also by the other countries of the world, will find the prison box.
Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito, a drug trafficker on the run since his escape from a Uruguayan prison in June 2019, was captured Monday in the city of Joao Pessoa, in northeastern Brazil.
Considered to be the boss of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, he was apprehended "with another Italian fugitive", whose identity has not been revealed, following a "joint investigation between Brazil and the 'Italy,' said the Brazilian Federal Police (PF).
Sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison
"There are traces of Rocco Morabito's actions in the organization of drug trafficking between Brazil and Europe since the 1990s," explained the PF, who announced for this Tuesday a press conference with details of the operation.
The Supreme Court had ordered the arrest of the 54-year-old man.
Rocco Morabito had been wanted since 1995 by the Italian courts, accused of illegal association and drug trafficking, and had been sentenced in absentia to 28 years in prison, then to 30 years.
The Italian, considered one of the ten most wanted criminals in the world, had already been arrested in 2017 in a hotel in Montevideo after having resided for 13 years under another identity in the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este.
Uruguayan justice approved his extradition to Italy in 2018, but in June 2019, he managed to escape from Montevideo central prison through his roof, and had been on the run ever since.
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