Fugitive Mafia boss bagged after 25 years on the run

Italian Mafia boss Rocco Morabito was on the run for 25 years, living in comfort, unbothered by his status as one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives. But his run is finally over this week. Let me tell you about it. *** CHECK OUT MY BONUS CONTENT AND PERKS ON PATREON: *** The Mob Reporter here with news this week of the triumphant extradition of a big boss of the ‘Ndrangheta, that’s the Mafia of Italy’s southern region of Calabria, who was hauled back to Italy from where he fled decades before. It’s been quite a trip, filled with exotic travel, daring escapes, false identities, power, corruption and lies. Morabito’s decades on the run came to an end on July 6, 2022, when a police guard escorted him through the streets of Brazil to an airport, where a plane from Italy was waiting. Although he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Italy in the 1990s, authorities never got him behind those bars. He fled to the ritzy seaside resort town in Uruguay called Punta del