Brazil extradited 'cocaine king' arrives in Italy
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ROME - One of the most wanted men in Italy, mob boss Rocco Morabito, has arrived in Rome after being extradited from Brazil. He was arrested there in 2021. Morabito, 55, known as 'the cocaine king of Milan', has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking, various media report.

The head of the mafia group 'Ndrangheta fled in 1994. Uruguayan authorities arrested him in 2017. Two years later, he and three other detainees escaped through a hole in the roof of the prison in the capital Montevideo. Police arrested him last year in João Pessoa, a port city in northeastern Brazil.

The mafia group 'Ndrangheta is one of the largest criminal organizations in the world, with billions in turnover mainly in the cocaine trade. They are seen as one of, if not the largest importer of cocaine in Europe. The Italian police described him as one of the world's best drug brokers. The public prosecutor in Calabria say that Morabito played a major role in the cocaine trade between South America and Milan. The Italian city acted as a distribution point for the transport of cocaine to Italy and the rest of Europe.