'Cocaine king of Milan' arrested in Uruguay after 23 years on the run
Rocco Morabito, one of Italys 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 Italys 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 Italys 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, Uruguays capital, along with his wife, reportedly an Angolan national.
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