Investigations into the network of supporters of Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was arrested on Monday, are in full swing. The mafia boss’s car was found in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara, the town where the boss spent at least the last year of his escape, Italian media reported. To be treated at the hospital for his tumor, Denaro had borrowed his identity from a technician.
The black Giulietta was parked in the garage of the son of Giovanni Luppino, the farmer who had been arrested as Messina Denaro’s driver. The car was searched. No documents or relevant material were found, nor a GPS device that could be used to reconstruct the mob leader’s movements. According to detectives, the car was bought by the mafia boss himself.
Surveyor lent mafia boss his identity
Messina Denaro, who had been on the run for 30 years and was wanted internationally, is said to have traded in a Fiat 500 at a car dealership in Palermo in January 2022 and paid 10,000 euros in cash for a new vehicle. Both the purchase contract and the payment were in the name of an 87-year-old disabled woman, the mother of surveyor Andrea Bonafede of Campobello, who allegedly lent his identity to the boss since 2020. With Bonafede’s documents, Messina Denaro had been treated for a colon tumor at a Palermo clinic. The boss and his driver were arrested at the clinic on Monday.
Investigators are currently evaluating the extensive documents found in the boss’s first discovered hideout, as well as the materials seized from Luppino’s. It consists of notes, post-its, expense lists and phone numbers.
Source: Krone
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