A second hideout used by Italy's most wanted mobster Matteo Messina Denaro has been discovered at the back of a wardrobe with a sliding base, Italian police have said. The newly-discovered armoured bunker is in a house about 300m from the Mafia boss's first hideout in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara.
He was arrested on Tuesday at a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo. Police had been hunting Messina Denaro for three decades.
How Mafia boss was caught at a clinic after 30 years. Messina Denaro was undergoing treatment for cancer at the clinic, and had made the appointment under a false name.
The alias, Andrea Bonafede, aroused the suspicion of police when they realised it was the name of deceased Mafia boss Leonardo Bonafede's nephew. Phone-mapping showed the real Bonafede's mobile was not in Palermo in 2020 and 2021 when a man using the name had surgery in the city.
During his time at the top of the Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate, Messina Denaro oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking. READ MORE...
