{"id":1541992,"date":"2022-07-06T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541992"},"modified":"2022-07-06T17:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T21:49:38","slug":"italys-number-two-mobster-extradited-from-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italys-number-two-mobster-extradited-from-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Number Two Mobster Extradited From Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fitalys-number-two-mobster-extradited-from-brazil%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Italy\u2019s second most wanted mobster has been extradited from Brazil after hiding in South America for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Rocco Morabito, the\u00a0\u201ccocaine king of Milan,\u201d arrived in Rome on Wednesday after\u00a028 years on the run from the law.<\/p>\n<p>Morabito, 55, was second on the list of Italy\u2019s most wanted and dangerous mobsters and was regarded as one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.\u00a0Italian authorities had been looking for him since 1994, and he was convicted in absentia by a Milan court in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a major architect in the internationalization of the [crime]\u00a0gangs and became the king of cocaine brokers,\u201d Nicola Morra, the Italian senator who heads\u00a0the anti-mafia commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/ndrangheta-mafia-kingpin-returns-italy-serve-30-year-sentence-rcna36928\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Morabito was a leading member of the \u2018Ndrangheta, which has in recent decades become even more powerful and widespread than the infamous Sicilian mafia, especially in the cocaine business.<\/p>\n<p>The mafia don was finally arrested last year in May, the result of a joint operation by Brazilian and Italian police.<\/p>\n<p>He had been previously arrested in Uruguay in 2017, but Morabito escaped from prison two years later when he and three other inmates climbed through a hole in the roof, evading custody until 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, authorities finally located him again in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, a port city in north-eastern Brazil. He had adopted a\u00a0fake identity with a fake Brazilian passport, going by the name Francisco Capeletto.<\/p>\n<p>Morabito was arrested there\u00a0along with another \u2018Ndrangheta mafia member, Vincenzo Pasquino, who has been sentenced for drug trafficking to the tune of\u00a017 years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Morabito will serve 30 years in prison for drug trafficking. He has also been convicted of mafia association.<\/p>\n<p>His extradition to Italy was approved by Brazil\u2019s federal supreme court last week.<\/p>\n<p>Morabito rose to prominence as\u00a0a young mafia associate by forging what are now major cocaine\u00a0smuggling routes from South America to Milan. He was eventually caught on an audio recording attempting to make deals relating to importing more than a ton of cocaine along one of those routes.<\/p>\n<p>In Uruguay, Morabito had lived large, collecting art and sometimes throwing big parties for his friends. Police began tracking him in South America when he registered his daughter at school under her real name.<\/p>\n<p>During his arrest in 2017, police found a 9mm firearm, 13 cell phones, cash, a Mercedes coupe, and 150 photos of Morabito in different disguises that appeared to be meant for passports among his belongings.<\/p>\n<p>The top most wanted mafia boss in Italy is still Matteo Messina Denaro, who is regarded as the most powerful boss of Cosa Nostra in Sicily. He has been on the run from authorities since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Cosa Nostra\u00a0of Sicily\u00a0and the \u2018Ndrangheta from Calabria, the other major mafia group in Italy is the Camorra from\u00a0Campania, also known as the Neapolitan mafia.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., Cosa Nostra is split into many different families, including the powerful five families of New York, the\u00a0Gambino, Colombo, Bonanno, Genovese, and Lucchese families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s second most wanted mobster has been extradited from Brazil after hiding in South America for decades. Rocco Morabito, the\u00a0\u201ccocaine king of Milan,\u201d arrived in Rome on Wednesday after\u00a028 years on the run from the law. Morabito, 55, was second on the list of Italy\u2019s most wanted and dangerous mobsters and was regarded as one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1542069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}