International Organised Crime
Rocco Morabito, an ‘Ndrangheta mafioso who was second on the Italy’s most-wanted list (after number one Matteo Messina Denaro), was finally captured in Brazil in May 2021, after more than 27 years on the run.
Italian undercover agents were sent to infiltrate the international drug deal after it was discovered by a combined Italian-Colombian operation. However, in an unexpected, although welcome, turn of events, the drug dealers recruited the agents to smuggle the cocaine from Colombia into Italy.
The Italian Ministry of the Interior stated that authorities have started a procedure to identify and prepare seized mafia properties for temporary refugee housing centres. The announcement was published in the midst of an increasing number of people fleeing Ukraine’s war.
Many thousands of people marched in Naples on May 5, 2019, to honor the National Day of Remembrance and Commitment against Mafias, which has been observed yearly since 2017.
Nicola Bonaventura worked as an assassin, a cocaine smuggler and a gunrunner under his father before his wife convinced him to quit the organization that nowadays controls most of Europe’s cocaine shipments.
