Italian fugitive’s love of soccer gets him caught – 2023
A harmful fugitive linked the Camorra, a violent Italian felony group, has been arrested in Greece after authorities used his love of the Napoli soccer staff to catch him.
Vincenzo La Porta, 60, was captured on the island of Corfu Friday as he was using a moped. He was thought-about one among Italy’s 100 most risks fugitives earlier than his arrest.
La Porta had been on the run for 11 years after being sentence in absentia to 14 years in jail for main the crime group’s cash laundering and tax evasion arm in Naples.
Italian police stated they’ve been working with their Greek counterparts to tail the fugitive in Greece for a number of months, monitoring monetary actions tied to his shut associates and social media posts of Napoli soccer followers in Corfu, by which he apparently featured incessantly.
La Porta appears to have sealed his destiny when he was photographed in Could celebrating Napoli’s win within the high Italian soccer league on the balcony of a restaurant in Corfu carrying a baseball cap and holding a blue Napoli scarf. Police had been watching followers in case he was there.
The win was an enormous second for Napoli, the primary time in additional than twenty years – for the reason that days of Diego Maradona – the staff has received Serie A title.
La Porta had been dwelling beneath a false identify, had a household and ran a neighborhood enterprise, based on the Italian police.
