Vincenzo La Porta has been on the run for 11 years but was tracked down to Corfu by police.
Napoli won their first Serie A title for 33 years in May as they drew with Udinese - stock photo from matchOne of Italy's most dangerous fugitives has been caught in Corfu after a photo of him cheering on his football team gave away his whereabouts.He has been on the run for 11 years - but earlier this year was spotted in a photo of fans celebrating in Greece.
The Naples Carabinieri police said: "What betrayed him was his passion for football and for the Napoli." Officers said the photos were taken after Napoli won its first Italian championship in over three decades earlier this year.La Porta has already been convicted in absentia in Italy for criminal association, tax evasion and fraud.
Police finally arrested him on Friday while he was riding his moped on the Greek island and he is now currently in a jail awaiting extradition to Italy.La Porta's lawyer told AP news agency: "He has started a new family in Greece... He has a nine-year-old boy and is working as a cook to get by. He suffers from heart ailments. If he's extradited, he and his family will be ruined."
The authorities were relentless in their pursuit of La Porta, tracking his financial and online movements closely and "waited for him to make a misstep".The police spotted him in a photo outside a Corfu restaurant among Napoli fans donning a baseball cap and waving the team's sky blue and white colours.With a little help from their Greek colleagues, they arrested him on Friday, the Greek police said.
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