“Milan Cocaine King” flees spectacularly from prison

The mobster Italian, also known as the <x0); the king of Cocaine at Milan”, has escaped from prison in Uruguay, where he was awaiting his extradition to Italy, the minister of state's internal affairs, has recently announced.

Rocco Morabito, 53, leader of the most powerful Italian criminal organised group “Nrangheta” He fled this prison in the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo, through a hole located on the roof of the building.

Three other prisoners who were awaiting extradition to Brazil and Argentina managed to escape with him, respectively.

The four men had moved with a rope from prison to a nearby house where the owner had been robbed, the minister said.

The Montevideo prison building

Morabito has been on the run for 23 years but was arrested in September 2017 at a luxury hotel in Montevideo, along with his wife.

The gangster, who has been sentenced in absentia to 30 years of freedom removal in Italy, has been in pursuit since 1994 after trying to introduce nearly 1 tonnes of cocaine to his country from Brazil.

It is unacceptable that a criminal like Morabito has managed to escape from prison in Uruguay while awaiting extradition to Italy,” said Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. I'm going to request an immediate explanation from the government in Montevideo and follow Morabito, wherever he is. ” /Periscope