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  • Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy. Morabito, considered a "capo" or captain of the 'Ndrangheta group, 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. Morabito is wanted in Italy on charges of drug trafficking. "There are records of Rocco Morabito's involvement in... drug trafficking between Brazil and Europe since the 1990s," said the Brazilian police. Brazil's Federal Supreme Court had issued an arrest warrant. Dubbed "the king of cocaine," Morabito was one of Italy's most wanted men when he was arrested in a Montevideo hotel in September 2017. By then, he had lived for 13 years under a fake identity in the Uruguayan resort town of Punta del Este. He had been sentenced in his absence to 28 years' imprisonment by an Italian court in 2015, a penalty later increased to 30 years. In June 2019, Uruguay's interior ministry announced Morabito and three other inmates had escaped through a hole in the roof of their prison in the capital Montevideo, setting off a massive manhunt and causing Uruguay's prison chief to resign. Italy's much-feared 'Ndrangheta mafia is thought to run much of Europe's cocaine trade from Calabria in the southwest. It is also involved in arms trafficking, prostitution and extortion. Morabito arrived in trendy Milan from his hometown of Africo, in the Calabria region, at the age of 23, and quickly carved out a reputation on the drug scene. "Nicknamed 'U Tamunga' in reference to a German military vehicle, the DKW Munga, the young Morabito became a charismatic figure in Milan who frequented bars and parties, according to Italian press reports. He soon came to the attention of Italian anti-Mafia investigators and they regularly tracked him delivering suitcases filled with millions of lira to Colombian drug traffickers. Police moved in on his birthday as he made what would be his last delivery, in October 1994, but he managed to escape. jm/mlr/bgs
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  • Brazil captures fugitive Italian mob boss
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