Rocco Morabito: The Calabrian mafia kingpin extradited to Italy from Brazil

THE Calabrian mafia boss Rocco Morabitowho is considered one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world, was extradited today Wednesday (7/6) to Italy by Brazil.

Morabito was arrested last year in Brazil, in a joint operation by Italian and Brazilian police forces.

Morabito has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and until yesterday was one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives.

At the age of 22, he was arrested because he threatened his professor at the university

Dragetta’s “godfather” was arrested for the first time at the age of 22 for threatening one of his university professors. After a year, in the context of a “mafia civil war”, his brother, Leo Morabito, was murdered. In 1994 he moved to Milan, where he and his uncle undertook contacts and negotiations with representatives of Colombian drug “cartels”.

A year later, Rocco Morabito traveled illegally to Brazil and for over twenty years continued to live with a fake passport and a fake name in various Latin American countries.

In 2017 he was arrested in Uruguay. But her “godfather”. Dragetta he managed to escape from the roof of the Montevideo prison shortly before he was extradited to Italy. His fugitive trial ended definitively on May 21, 2021 in Brazil.

Source: News Beast

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