Brazil to extradite 'Ndrangheta mafia boss Morabito

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 25 - 'Ndrangheta mafia boss Rocco Morabito is set to face Italian justice after Brazil's supreme court on Wednesday confirmed the authorization to extradite the drugs trafficker to Italy.
    Morabito, 55, had been on the run since 1994 when he was arrested in Uruguay in 2017, only to escape in 2019 and then be re-arrested in Brazil in May last year.
    He was Italy's second most wanted mafia fugitive after elusive Cosa Nostra superboss Matteo Messina Denaro.
    The 'Ndrangheta controls the European cocaine trade and is considered Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, having overtaken Cosa Nostra.
    (ANSA).