He is sentenced until the year 2048, but Toma Taulant, a 41-year-old Albanian, has decided to “speed up” his release, reports Corriere della Sera. Since Sunday morning, he has been sought everywhere in and around the high-security Opera prison in Milan.

Toma, who has a criminal record for robbery, theft, and drug trafficking, is known as an escape expert. The alarm was raised at 08:00 in the morning, when during a routine check, guards were unable to find him in his cell.

How did the escape happen?

According to preliminary investigations, Taulant cut the bars of his cell window and climbed into the inner courtyard. He then scaled the perimeter wall and disappeared without leaving a trace. Investigators are analyzing security camera footage to reconstruct his movements in detail and determine where he may have gone.

This is the fourth escape in his “career,” although he has been caught each time.

His last escape was in 2013, when he fled from Parma prison together with another inmate. He was arrested in Belgium but managed to escape again a few months later, until his capture in 2015.

The first escape dates back to October 2009 from Terni prison, before being caught at the end of December in a farmhouse in the province of Pavia.