A school friend enabled the arrested mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro to live under a false identity in Sicily. The researchers reported this on Wednesday. The friend “borrowed” Denaro his own identity and bought him a 60 square meter apartment in Campobello di Mazara.
Denaro gave him the money. Friend Andrea Bonafede, a 59-year-old Sicilian surveyor, had also lent Denaro his ID and health card. With these documents, the mafia boss was treated for an intestinal tumor in a private clinic in Palermo.
Denaro went shopping and eating out beyond recognition
He led a “pretty normal life” in the small town in the Sicilian province. Denaro shopped, dined and entertained women, researchers said. They searched his hideout and found, among other things, elegant furniture, expensive designer clothes, luxury perfumes, Ray-Ban glasses, Viagra tablets and condoms. The mafia boss is said to have had countless girlfriends throughout his life and loved beautiful women.
Police are trying to reconstruct Messina Denaro’s escape in recent months and how he escaped capture for a year while residing in one of Italy’s most heavily controlled cities. Campobello di Mazara is one of the locations where the search for the Cosa Nostra boss has been concentrated. Another hiding place of the boss was found here on Wednesday.
link in the cocaine trade
Messina Denaro is considered the last big boss of Cosa Nostra, but also a link to the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, especially in the cocaine trade. Investigators hope he will become a key witness to avoid the harsh prison conditions for prominent mafiosi. As reported, the mafia boss is seriously ill and was due to undergo chemotherapy in the high-security prison in the Abruzzo town of L’Aquila. He has been detained there since Monday.
Investigations against four other people
In addition to Denaro, the police are investigating four other people in connection with the case. Among them are the named friend Andrea Bonafede, the doctor who treated Denaro, and an olive dealer who brought the mob boss to the clinic for treatment. Meanwhile, a second doctor is also being examined. On Monday, the oncology department of the hospital in the city of Trapani, where Messina Denaro was treated for a while, was searched.
Source: Krone
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