"King of Cocaine in Milan" Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito escapes

Known as the "king of cocaine in Milan" was in the sights of Justice for 23 years and was among the five most wanted criminals in Italy.

The head of 'Ndrangheta - the Italian mafia from Calabria - Rocco Morabito, has escaped in the early hours of Monday from a prison in Montevideo along with three other international criminals, according to official sources.

"About midnight four people with administrative arrest who were housed in the Center of Income, Diagnosis and Derivation of the INR, escaped through a gap on the roofs of building", A letter from the Communication Unit of the Ministry of the Interior (Unicom).

Also, the text indicates that the group of criminals has violently occupied a nearby plot of land accessed through a small window, whose owner has stolen money.

In addition to Morabito, who was waiting for his extradition by the Italian justice, they escaped Leonardo Abel Sinopoli Azcoaga, arrested for a crime of forgery of document and theft, at the request of the Brazilian justice ; Matías Sebastián Acosta González, awaiting his extradition from Brazil, and Bruno Ezequiel Díaz, arrested for a crime of homicide at the request of the Argentine justice.

The one known as the "king of cocaine in Milan" was in the sights of Justice for 23 years and was among the five most wanted criminals in Italy .

Morabito was arrested in Uruguay , where he lived for a dozen years, in September 2017. The mafioso was convicted of criminal association, drug trafficking and other serious crimes with a sentence of more than 30 years in prison. In South America he was busy getting the drug from this continent to northern Italy, according to the investigators of his case.

At the time of the arrest, the head of the 'Ndrangheta clan was in a hotel in Montevideo, but he lived in a luxurious mansion in Punta del Este, home where twelve credit cards were found, thirteen mobile phones, checks his an important amount of money, as well as several weapons.

Morabito lived in Uruguay with a Brazilian passport, under the false identity of Francesco Antonio Capeletto Souza.