Former Camorra mafia boss and
hitman Pasquale Scotti was arrested in Italy on Thursday after
being extradited from Brazil.
Scotti, a key figure in the New Organised Camorra crime
syndicate established by Raffaele Cutolo in the late 1970s,
arrived at Rome's Fiumicino airport on an Alitalia flight from
Rio de Janeiro on Thursday morning.
He was initially arrested in 1983 and briefly collaborated
with the judicial authorities before going underground after an
escape from a Caserta hospital where he was receiving treatment
for a hand injury sustained during a shoot-out.
An international arrest warrant was issued against him in
1990.
Police eventually caught up with him last May in the
north-eastern Brazilian coastal city of Recife, where he was in
possession of a false identity document attributed to an
Italo-Brazilian restaurant owner.
He faces 30 years in jail.
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