'Cocaine king of Milan' arrested in Uruguay after 23 years on the run

[Judi Lynn]

Rocco Morabito, one of Italy’s most-wanted mafia bosses, slipped up by enrolling daughter at local school under real name

Jon Henley European affairs correspondent
@jonhenley
Monday 4 September 2017 11.20 EDT

After 23 years on the run, one of Italy’s most wanted mobsters – the so-called “cocaine king of Milan” – has been arrested at a hotel in Uruguay.

Uruguayan and Italian authorities said Rocco Morabito, 50, a fugitive boss of Italy’s most powerful organised crime group, the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, had been living with false papers in the southern coastal resort of Punta del Esta for more than a decade.

Uruguayan police said Morabito, the target of an international arrest warrant since 1995, was detained after a six-month investigation that was triggered after he enrolled his daughter at a local school under his own name.

Morabito, who obtained Uruguayan papers after presenting a false Brazilian passport in the name of Francisco Capeletto, was arrested on Monday at a luxury hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital, along with his wife, reportedly an Angolan national.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/04/cocaine-king-of-milan-arrested-in-uruguay-after-23-years-on-the-run

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1. There is a wonderful Italian tv series called "Gomorrah" about a mob in Naples

Sort of an Italian The Sopranos, but even better.
Also a movie, not as good.
The guy in the pic above looks like the kingpin in the series.