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A coded note hidden inside a chair leg helped lead to the arrest of Italy's most-wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, a warrant shows.
Police found the note during a covert operation at his sister Rosalia's house - one month before his arrest in the Sicilian capital Palermo in January.
Rosalia Messina Denaro was also arrested in Sicily on Friday.
Her brother, 60, spent 30 years on the run and is believed to have evaded justice with help from family.
He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra Mafia and was tried and sentenced to life in prison in absentia in 2002 of a string of murders.
He was eventually caught by police outside a private clinic in Palermo, where he had been receiving treatment for cancer under a fake identity, on 16 January.
More than 100 members of the armed forces were involved in his arrest.

Rosalia Messina Denaro, 67, also known as Rosetta, was herself detained in Sicily on mafia membership charges on Friday, with the Carabinieri - Italian police - releasing a 57-page arrest warrant detailing some of the circumstances which led to her brother's earlier arrest.
The warrant reveals that police found a note inside the leg of an aluminium chair in Rosalia's home in the town of Castelvetrano, in the west of the island, while trying to plant a listening device inside during an operation in December.

Officers photographed the note, which initially seemed like a jumble of words, signs and letters, and replaced it where it was found.
The note was in fact a pizzino - a small piece of paper written in code used by Messina Denaro to communicate with his relatives and affiliates.
Analysis showed it documented a man's struggle with colon cancer, with police focusing their attention on Messina Denaro after verifying that no other family members had similar cancer diagnoses.

The "historic result of the capture... originated from a note, imprudently kept, albeit hidden, by Rosetta", a judge wrote in the warrant.
She is alleged to have played a major role in her mafia family, acting as treasurer, with police saying she communicated with her brother using the code name "Fragolone", or "big strawberry".
The warrant described Rosalia as a woman with "origins and traditions all inspired by an orthodox and rock-hard mafia culture".
The warrant says she is under investigation for being part of the mafia organisation and committing crimes through her membership, helping her brother escape numerous jail sentences, helping him continue in his role as boss of the organisation, and making sure other members of the organisation could communicate with him while he was hiding from the authorities.

This article lists Attilio Cubeddu from the Sardinian criminal organization Anonima Sequestri, Renato Cinquegranella from the Camorra, and Giovanni Motisi from the Cosa Nostra as Italy's most wanted.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/09/who ... s-in-italy

TommyGambino wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:37 am People were saying he looks on deaths door not long ago, weird. looks like a normal 60 year old

Considering he has late stage cancer, he does look pretty decent. Some of the messages he was sending other cancer patients include: "My body has betrayed me. I still can't get over it. I can't stand this body anymore" and "I had a beautiful life. I didn't foresee what is happening and I can't accept it."

People were saying he looks on deaths door not long ago, weird. looks like a normal 60 year old

Photos taken on the day of his arrest by the carabinieri.

Pmac2 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:21 am He flipped into witsec. His youtube page coming soon. Really this was the biggest arrest in the mafia in the last 20years crickets.

He’s viscously sick… he gave the govt a good look arrest…lotta money and a lotta family members - bet he got a wink wink.

Thanks for the reply scagghiuni.

He flipped into witsec. His youtube page coming soon. Really this was the biggest arrest in the mafia in the last 20years crickets.

Matteo Messina Denaro: How silence and compliance kept Mafia boss at large

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64353448

MickeyMeatballs wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:02 pm Apologies for being out of the loop with what’s going on in Sicily, but who exactly is this Boiardo guy? A mob associate who gives news interviews? Is the journalist in the video someone of particular pedigree? He mentions having received threats from the Gravianos.

Baiardo helped the Graviano's when they were on the run in the early 1990s, he was the first to claim Berlusconi and Dell'Utri were linked with the mafia. The journalist Giletti is very famous in Italy

Apologies for being out of the loop with what’s going on in Sicily, but who exactly is this Boiardo guy? A mob associate who gives news interviews? Is the journalist in the video someone of particular pedigree? He mentions having received threats from the Gravianos.

Apparently they found a poster of Vito Corleone as well

https://twitter.com/agenzia_ansa/status ... OR9xi4jFDw

Strax wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:49 am Police uncovered hidden bunker behind a wardrobe that was used by MMD, in house of former politician Errico Risalvato acquitted of mafia charges in 2001.Errico is brother of Giovanni Risalvato a concrete entrepreneur.

Inside the hideout, among the documents, police found mobile phone number of venerable master of the masonic lodge "Ferrer" Of Castelvetrano.Doctor Quintino Paola

Graviano's are still imporant players in Brancaccio , Antonio Graviano was arrested in 2020.