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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.

Euronews

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

Italy seizes gold, luxury villas and cash tied to Sicilian Mafia drug-trafficking gains

Italian authorities have seized over $232 million in assets linked to the late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s drug trafficking network

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Food for thought: The Mafia sits at the table, but who is paying the bill?

The well-known Italian restaurant, founded by an Aragonese family, has been controversially ordered by a court to change its name, but can a commercial claim clash with memory or common sense?

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Cinema in mafia boss’s Sicily hometown refuses to show film of his life

Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’

The Guardian - UK

Notorious Italian Mafia boss who boasted his victims could ‘fill a cemetery’ is buried at private funeral

Matteo Messina Denaro died in custody this week after 30 years on the run

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

Mafia boss dubbed ‘The last Godfather’ dies in Sicily hospital after 30 years on the run

A Sicilian mafia boss dubbed ‘the last Godfather’ by the Italian press has died in hospital at the age of 61.

Evening Standard

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 Guardian - UK

Jailed Italian mafia supergrass will help cops finally catch Daniel Kinahan - they used to be friends

EXCLUSIVE: “He will. He will give evidence to the Americans, to the Irish, to whoever else wants him – the British, I guess. The Spanish."

Irish Mirror

Italian Mafia supergrass will help snare Daniel Kinahan, crime expert says

Mafia expert Professor Anna Sergi said that Kinahan’s Italian Mafia pal Raffaele Imperiale will turn on him and give evidence against the cartel king

Dublin Live

Sister of Sicilian mafia’s ‘last godfather’ arrested over secret notes

Matteo Messina Denaro’s hand-typed instructions found hidden in sofa at home of his sister Rosalia, say police

The Guardian - UK

Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like

The Italian police recently arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, the alleged leader of the Sicilian Mafia who has been on the run since 1993. To aid in the search, the Carabinieri issued an artificially aged image to show what he might look like now.

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Mafia killer on run for 17 years captured working in Pizzeria in France

Edgardo Greco was ‘hiding in plain sight’ with an assumed name in a French city

The Guardian - UK

‘Like being on a rollercoaster’: the man who caught Sicily’s last mafia boss

Lt Lucio Arcidiacono, who tracked Matteo Messina Denaro for eight years, speaks to the Guardian

Daily Mirror

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

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Saudi Arabia’s tourist board to sponsor women’s tournament in Australia; unsentenced people in jail rises 120% in decade; Walter Sofronoff to lead ACT police probe

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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.

Reuters

Godfather, Joker posters found in mafia boss Messina Denaro's home

Posters of Al Pacino as the Godfather and Joaquin Phoenix as Joker were found in an apartment in western Sicily where mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is believed to have lived in the months prior to his arrest, police footage showed on Friday.

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Strong clan loyalty, locals, helped mafia boss Messina Denaro stay hidden

When Salvatore Catalano discovered that mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro had lived just a short walk from his house in the western Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara, he felt sick.

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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.

The Guardian - UK

Police arrest Sicilian whose identity was used by fugitive mafia boss

Andrea Bonafede, 59, is accused of enabling Matteo Messina Denaro to live quiet life in Trapani province

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

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