This guy Carbone had a lot of luck lol.

It was the conversion to Islam , an expedient initially adopted to escape death and then becoming a choice of faith, that kept Bruno Carbone alive , the right-hand man of the international drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale , nicknamed the "Van Gogh boss" . This was revealed by Il Mattino.

According to rumors leaked to some press last November, later confirmed, Carbone was arrested in northwestern Syria by a militia once linked to al Qaeda. The militia in question, the Hayat Tahrir al Sham (Hts), is a Salafist militant formation, closely linked to Ankara and currently active and involved in the Syrian civil war.
Carbone - reports the newspaper - after his arrest allegedly suffered torture, threats and was now afraid of being killed when he decided - to save his life - to ask his captors for a copy of the Koran. A "found" initially aimed at avoiding a probable execution and then became a serious and convinced choice of faith.

From his golden fugitive in Dubai he had decided to flee after realizing that his arrest was now imminent. Under a false name, aboard a sultan's jet and paying a good 60,000 euros, he landed in Turkey from where he intended to leave for South America. But he is captured by the militia and so begins an ordeal that lasts many months. Until the liberation, in the middle of last November, and the delivery to Italy on which he set foot as a Muslim.