One of the leaders of the criminal community of Calabria Rocco Morabito, who was announced back in 1994, arrested in Brazil.
The strength of Italian law enforcement agencies, FBI and the Ministry of Justice of the United States were brought to catching a dangerous criminal, reports TASS with reference Italian media.
Rocco is called the “cocaine king” and the second largest Italian criminal after the leader of the Sicilian Mafia “Goat Nostra” Matteo Messina Denaro.
Morabito is the most wanted member of the Italian mafia grouping “NDRANGETA” (a large Italian organized criminal group, which occurs from Calabria is the poorest Italian province), which was able to hide from justice for more than 20 years. In 1992 and 1993, tried to send more tons of cocaine to Italy.
In 2017, Morabito was already delayed in Uruguay, but in 2019 he managed to escape from the local prison. Interpol together with the Uruguay police detained Russian citizens who organized the escape of the Italian drug trap.