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Italian police seize more than €200m in late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro's assets

Assets were being seized in Andorra, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland, as well as Italy, police said.

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Italian police seize £173m worth of gold and luxury villas tied to Sicilian Mafia boss

Police traced a number of expensive assets to the late crime boss Matteo Messina Denaro

The Independent UK

Benedetto Santapaola, notorious Italian mafia boss, dies in prison aged 87

Cosa Nostra leader, who controlled most of eastern Sicily, dies while serving multiple life sentences for murder

The Guardian - UK

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How mobsters’ own words brought down Philly’s mafia − a veteran crime reporter has the story behind the end of the ‘Mob War’

The bloody mob war that is the focus of the new Netflix series “Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia,” which premieres Oct. 22, 2025, is full of the murder and mayhem, treachery and deceit that have been the hallmarks of the nation’s Cosa Nostra family conflicts.

The Conversation

Paolo Borsellino: the murder of an anti-mafia prosecutor and the enduring mystery of his missing red notebook

It has been 33 years since anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was blown up by Cosa Nostra in front of his mother’s home in Palermo, Sicily. His death on July 19 1992 came 57 days after the murder of his colleague, Giovanni Falcone. This was the peak of Cosa Nostra’s attack…

The Conversation

Hollywood and the mafia myth: how Italian organised crime went global

The Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Naples and the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria – by far the most powerful, but also the least known – are Italy’s three main mafia groups. In an interview with RFI, French criminologist, economist and mafia specialist Clotilde Champeyrache paints a picture of misunderstood…

Radio France Internationale

A raid and a secret tape exposed a Sicilian mafia that is shrunken, whiny and clinging on for survival

A historic number of arrests were made, but the days of targeted murder or massive political influence are long gone, says John Dickie, a professor at UCL

The Guardian - UK

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130 Arrested In Palermo Mafia Sting, Cosa Nostra Still Active

130 arrests in Palermo crackdown reveal modern tactics and enduring influence of Cosa Nostra.

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Letizia Battaglia’s photos captured real Sicilian life during the heightened mafia violence of the 1980s and 90s

When we look at pictures of conflict, violence and collective trauma we might expect to see only the horrors of maimed bodies and the crying souls of the victims. But in the photographs of one of Italy’s most cherished photographers, Letizia Battaglia, you do not see glamorised shots of the…

The Conversation

Families of Sicilian mafia victims fear return of freed mobsters

Most of the bosses, released from prison on furlough or for good behaviour, have never disavowed Cosa Nostra

The Guardian - UK

Police arrest 43 and seize 520 million euros in Europe-wide probe into mafia and tax evasion

Police said they found false invoices by the companies involved amounting to 1.3 billion euros from 2020 to 2023

The Independent UK

A Mafia boss on the run for decades dies in hospital months after his capture

Matteo Messina Denaro died on Monday in a hospital prison ward several months after being captured following decades on the run, Italian state radio said.

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On the run for decades, convicted Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies in hospital months after capture

Italian state radio says that Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, has died in a hospital prison ward, months after being captured

The Independent UK

Notorious Sicilian mafia boss dubbed ‘last godfather’ dies in custody after 30 years on run

Matteo Denaro believed to have ordered dozens of murders and was even accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old

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Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘last godfather’ of Sicilian mafia, dies after long illness

Cosa Nostra boss, 61, had been in hiding since 1993 and was arrested in January while attending hospital

The National (Scotland)

Shops warned to stop mafia-themed Scotch whisky orders

SHOPS have been asked by regulators to stop placing orders for a mafia-themed Scotch whisky ...

Daily Mirror

Meet the brave wives and daughters who spoke out to bring down ruthless Italian mafia

Nothing could stop what was one of most powerful criminal organisations in the world, no one would dare touch them - or so they believed

The Guardian - UK

Corleone: the Sicilian town trying to break free of its mobster past

Mood is changing in town that spent half a century terrorised into silence under mafia bosses

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Former girlfriend of Mafia boss quizzed by police 'for helping him' as love letters found

Maria Mesi was jailed in the 1990s for sheltering Matteo Messina Denaro at her flat in Bagheria, Sicily. Letters found by police showed her love for the Mafia boss. She is now under investigation

The Conversation

Modern mafia: Italy's organised crime machine has changed beyond recognition in 30 years

The arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, one of Sicily’s most infamous mafia bosses, has reminded many Italians of the extreme violence he was associated with when operating as a leading figure of Cosa Nostra.

ABC News

How a culture of fear and a Sicilian Mafia whisper network helped Italian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro elude capture

The playboy Mafioso was famous for his flashy car, his designer clothes and his brutal streak. But to elude police for 30 years, Matteo Messina Denaro had to hide in plain sight.

Evening Standard

Mafia power vacuum: Matteo Messina Denaro and the ‘broken’ Cosa Nostra

The arrest of Denaro in Sicily has made headlines around the world — but how big a blow is it to the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia organisation? The experts say it is already well past its glory days...

The Guardian - UK

Hiding in plain sight: how Sicily’s mafia godfather eluded capture for 30 years

Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested this week after three decades on the run. During that time he went out for pizza, watched football, and even took selfies with a doctor

Reuters

Factbox-Matteo Messina Denaro: what's next for the Italian mafia after boss's arrest?

Matteo Messina Denaro, a brutal Sicilian Mafia boss who was Italy's most wanted criminal before his capture last week, had been on the run for 30 years. Here are some key facts about his arrest and what it means:

Reuters

Mafia boss Messina Denaro held in top security Italian prison

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was being held on Wednesday in a high-security jail in central Italy, subject to special restrictions applied to the country's most dangerous prisoners.

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