Vincenzo La Porte hid from the Italian police for eleven years and was detained in Corfu – the mafiosi was led by a passionate love for the Neapolitan football team Napoli.
How informs BBC, the perpetrator was celebrating the victory of Napoli and inadvertently “lit up” in the photo of the fans in honor of this event, celebrating in Greece. The Naples police said: “He was betrayed by his passion for football and Napoli. He was spotted in a photo outside a Corfu restaurant among Napoli fans.
La Porte, 60, was close to the Contini clan, part of a crime syndicate called the Secondigliano Alliance. For the past 11 years, a man has been hiding from justice on the Greek island of Corfu.
After the police traced a photograph on social networks, in which the criminal was depicted in the attributes of the Neapolitan football club at the celebration of Napoli’s victory in the annual championship, a joint police operation of Greece and Italy was carried out to detain the mafiosi. The perpetrator was caught on Friday while riding a scooter around the Greek island and arrested.
During his years on the run, La Porte was convicted in absentia, allegedly being the patron of a criminal community that had been engaged in tax fraud for many years.
Now the mafiosi will have to serve 14 years and 4 months behind bars. According to available information, the man is now in Greece, awaiting extradition to Italy. La Porta’s lawyer told the AP news agency:
“He started a new family in Greece… He has a nine-year-old son. He works as a cook to survive. He suffers from heart disease and his family will be destroyed. The authorities relentlessly pursued La Porta, closely monitoring his financial and online movements, and “waiting for him to make a faux pas.”
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