On Saturday, Italian police announced that Vincenzo La Porta, an Italian on the run for eleven years, had been arrested in Greece. He was spotted celebrating his football team’s historic victory. The 60-year-old was on the country’s most wanted list and is believed to have close ties to the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia organization, according to a police statement. La Porta had been sentenced in absentia to fourteen years in prison for his involvement in a group specializing in tax evasion and fraud.
The police in Naples (south) assured that they had “never given up” the search and had “waited for him to make a mistake”. And they found it, on the Greek island of Corfu.
“What betrayed him was his passion for football and Napoli,” according to the police. After thirty-three years of waiting for the Italian title, Napoli won their first “scudetto” since the days of Diego Maradona in May. “La Porta couldn’t help but celebrate” the victory, according to the police who then “recognized him from a photo taken in front of a restaurant”, where they saw him holding up a scarf in the blue and white colors of his team . He was wearing a baseball cap but investigators were convinced they had their man and, with the help of their Greek colleagues, they went on the hunt.
Friday, while driving his scooter, he was arrested by the Greek police.
