Fugitive Camorra boss arrested

(ANSA) - Naples, May 26 - Former Camorra mafia boss and hitman Pasquale Scotti was captured in Brazil on Tuesday after almost 31 years on the run. Scotti was a key figure in the New Organised Camorra, a crime syndicate established in the southern Campania region in the late 1970s by Raffaele Cutolo, to whom he was close.
    He was arrested in 1983 and briefly collaborated with the judicial authorities before going underground the following December 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. Scotti was in possession of a false identity document attributed to an Italo-Brazilian restaurant owner at the time of his arrest in the north-eastern coastal city of Recife. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano described his capture as an "extraordinary blow". "The hunt for fugitives goes beyond the confines of our country to form a network of legality binding all those states that are committed to rooting out all possible criminal infiltration," Alfano said.