The police of Brazil and Italy, plus the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), reported that they captured the Italian capomafia Rocco morabito, appointed as head of the Calabrian mafia clan ‘Ndrangheta and that he had fled Uruguay before being extradited to his country.
They captured him this Monday in the city of Joao Pessoa. According to a statement from the Brazilian Federal Police (PF), finding Morabito in the state capital of Paraiba “was the result of a joint operation” following an arrest warrant for extradition purposes issued by the local Supreme Court.
Another Italian citizen who was with Morabito – he was not identified – was also captured in the same operation and, according to the Brazilian Police, it will also be requested that his extradition be authorized by the Brazilian Justice.
Rocco Morabito, during his arrest in Uruguay. Photo: AFP
According to the information, a team of the Italian Police and Interpol agents in Rome traveled to Brazil on Sunday with the expectation of the capture of the mobster.
“There are records of Rocco Morabito’s actions in drug trafficking between Brazil and Europe since the 1990s, according to the investigation at the time carried out in the area of the ‘King’ operation, and more recent operations indicated the ‘Ndrangheta’s relationship with Brazilian criminal organizations“said the PF.
Morabito, the statement cited, was imprisoned in Uruguay in 2017 after 22 years being wanted by the Italian authorities, but in June 2019 he fled from prison and became, again, a one of Italy’s three most wanted fugitives.
Information sheet on Rocco Morabito from the Italian Ministry of the Interior. Photo: DPA
In Uruguay, where he had lived for about 10 years with a false passport, the mobster was convicted of criminal association, drug trafficking and other serious crimes with a sentence of more than thirty years in prison. Morabito took care of get the drug to the north of Italy, according to investigators on the case.
When he was arrested in 2017, the head of the clan was in a hotel in Montevideo, but he lived in a luxurious mansion in Punta del Este, where twelve credit cards, thirteen cell phones, checks for a significant amount of money and several weapons were found.
Interpol had recently launched the I-CAN (Interpol Cooperation Against ‘Ndrangheta) project to capture Morabito and dismantle his tentacles in South America.
Who is Rocco Morabito
Rocco Morabito when he was arrested in a hotel in Uruguay. AFP photo / file.
Before being imprisoned in Montevideo, Morabito commanded the dreaded Italian ‘Ndrangheta. He lived in a luxurious house in Maldonado, Uruguay. And he was on the run for 23 years.
I had fake identities and he was photographed with different looks to adulterate documentation and go unnoticed.
They detected it in the neighboring country at the beginning of 2017, when they enrolled their teenage daughter in school using real last name. It was the beginning of his downfall.
During the ’90s it was considered as “The king of cocaine in Milan”. Although his best days were past, he kept running away. When he fell he was registered in a hotel like Francisco Capeletto.
An Argentine involved in the escape
Bruno Ezequiel Díaz escaped from a Uruguayan jail with Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito.
The elusive Morabito escaped from a Uruguayan prison through a terrace along with three other foreigners, one of them Argentine.
It was Bruno Ezequiel Díaz, 22, who had spent a year in jail for a robbery but after being released killed Axel Smith, 21, who had dated his ex-girlfriend with 20 points with a broken bottle.
Source: agencies.
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