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Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito breaks out of Uruguay prison through ‘hole in roof’: officials
- Rocco Morabito, the head of the ’Ndrangheta crime group, and three other inmates robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse after they escaped, officials said
- Morabito was being held at the jail and awaiting extradition to Italy for drug trafficking offences
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A top Italian mafia boss has broken out from a prison in Uruguay, the interior ministry announced on Monday.
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Rocco Morabito and three other inmates “escaped through a hole in the roof of the building” in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo late on Sunday and robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse, the ministry said in a statement.
The statement said Morabito – a top ’Ndrangheta figure arrested in Uruguay in 2017 after decades on the run – was awaiting extradition for “international drug trafficking”.
The ’Ndrangheta is an organised crime group based in Italy that has been described as one of Europe’s most powerful mafia.
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