Following February s arrest of a Ndrangheta mobster working in a pizzeria in France, it has now emerged that dozens of Italian mafiosi have led unlikely double lives while on the run.
Morabito, who was arrested in Brazil in May 2021 and is known as the king of cocaine , will now serve a 30-year prison sentence for various drug offences (Morabito pictured arriving in Rome)
The fugitive Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, almost two years after he escaped through the roof of a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy.
Morabito - a top Ndrangheta figure - was captured in the city of Joao Pessoa along with another Italian outlaw as a result of a joint investigation with Italy, Brazil s federal police said in a statement.
Dubbed the cocaine king of Milan , Morabito was arrested in Uruguay in 2017 after decades on the run and was awaiting extradition to Italy for international drug trafficking charges.
But the mafia boss escaped through a prison roof in the Uruguayan capital of Montevido in 2019 after cutting a hole before he and three other inmates robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse.