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Then on Sunday police captured the crime boss and his son-in-law as they were leaving the fortified home, the statement added. The latter faces a 20-year sentence on accusations of drug ...
Matteo Messina Denaro (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo mesˈsiːna deˈnaːro]; Sicilian: Matteu Missina Dinaru; 26 April 1962 – 25 September 2023), also known as Diabolik (from the Italian comic book character), was a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano.
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia’s “boss of bosses,’’ Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.
In announcing his arrest, Italian police released a photo of Belvedere visiting the grave of Pablo Escobar, the founder and boss of the Medellin cartel, who was killed by police in 1993. Luigi ...
The Italian police also gave information of contact between Palazzolo and a prominent Sicilian mafia boss, Giovanni Brusca, convicted in Italy for the murder of Antimafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone. [16] The document alleged that Palazzolo was believed to head a Mafia "family" in South Africa.
Roberto Pannunzi (Italian: [roˈbɛrto panˈnuntsi]; born 1948), [1] also known as Bebè (Baby), [2] [3] is an Italian criminal from Rome linked to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria. He is one of the top cocaine brokers for the Sicilian Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta with the Colombian cocaine cartels. [4]
Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans. Warrants were issued ...
Giuseppe Falsone (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe falˈsoːne]; born 28 August 1970 in Campobello di Licata), sometimes spelled as Falzone, is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was on the " Most wanted list " of the Italian Ministry of the Interior from January 1999, until his arrest in France in June 2010. [ 1 ]