‘Last godfather’ of Sicilian mafia Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested after 30 years on run
Italian military police have found a possible secret bunker suspected of being used by Matteo Messina Denaro, the “last godfather” of the Sicilian mafia who wasThe structure is in Campobello di Mazara, a small town in Sicily where the apartment Denaro, 60, had been living in was discovered on Tuesday.
Investigators are searching the space for documents that were in Denaro’s possession, in particular a “secret archive” of the Sicilian mafia’s “boss of bosses” Totò Riina, who died in 2017, which, according to some mafia informers, was stolen by Denaro and allegedly contains the secrets of the last 40 years of mafia killings.
Denaro was in 2002 convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in prison for having personally killed or ordered the murders of dozens of people., Denaro was born in Castelvetrano, Sicily, in 1962. His father was a powerful Cosa Nostra boss and Denaro thrived in the family business, building an illicit multibillion-euro empire in the waste disposal, wind energy and retail sectors.
The function and size of the structure in Campobello di Mazara is not yet fully known. Denaro was arrested on Monday at a medical clinic in Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for a tumour. The house, located in Via Maggiore Toselli, allegedly belongs to a man who was previously tried for mafia association and acquitted in 2001.
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