Italian police have nabbed one of Italy’s most wanted mobster fugitives after 14 years in hiding.

Rumours that the young, angel-faced mafioso Marco Di Lauro, 38, was living a gilded life in Dubai were to put to rest Saturday when police showed up as he was tucking into a plate of pasta at the modest apartment in the gritty north Naples periphery where he lived with his wife and two cats.

More than 150 officers were involved in the blitz to bring in Di Lauro, 38, who has been wanted since an international arrest warrant was issued in 2006 after narrowly escaping a 2004 police swoop known as “night of the handcuffs.”

According to Italian reports he did not put up any resistance and was allowed to hug his wife and freshen up before being taken to police headquarters.