The arrest of the boss of 'Cosa Nostra', how did he manage to travel halfway around the world for years?

2023-01-22 09:49:07Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The arrest of the boss of 'Cosa Nostra', how did he manage to travel

Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was on the run for 3 decades, managed to take holidays and travel for years from the UK to South America. He has always had a great passion for travel.

In the summer of 1993, when the bombs he ordered exploded between Florence, Rome and Milan, he was on holiday in Versilia with his associates, the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano. Although he was searching, he had no problem planning the trips.

The following year he was in Spain, although not for pleasure or business. He underwent eye surgery at the Barraquer clinic in Barcelona, ​​where he did not hesitate to reveal his true identity. In the last investigation, it was discovered that during the trips he also used the identity of Andrea Bonafede to go to South America and Britain. His 'disappearance' even raised Toto Riina's curiosity to ask where he was.

"And this Matteo Messina Denaro, what is he doing now that he doesn't know anything anymore?" – was the question addressed to his friend in 2013, when he did not suspect that he was being eavesdropped. "I think he has fled abroad", answered the other person.

Meanwhile, after committing a series of massacres, the 'godfather' of the Sicilian mafia, left at large, disappeared. Matteo Messina Denaro's intention seems to have been dedication to international affairs. In Venezuela he decided to invest to open a poultry company. This was revealed by a penitent, Franco Safina, who revealed that $5 million had been handed over to the company that would be owned by a Sicilian using the name Gaspare Bianco. This happened around the 90s, when he was using forged documents. While the statements of an architect from Agrigento led the investigation to England, where the mafia boss was suspected to be.

Luca Bellomo, grandson of Messina Denaro, has also traveled a lot. Bellomo is married to the niece of the mafia boss, Lorenza Guttadauro, who is now the lawyer of the godfather arrested on Monday. At that time, the investigation had raised more than one doubt about some trips between Colombia, France and Albania. At the time, the company run by Bellomo supplied tablecloths to the best Sicilian hotels. 

Messina Denaro reappeared in Sicily in 2019, coinciding with the onset of his illness. As he had several shelters where he hid quite well, he ended up in handcuffs on January 16, 2023. Investigations showed that a year earlier, in January 2022, the mafia boss had personally gone to buy a car worth 10,000 euros, which he had paid cash and registered the vehicle to Andrea Bonafede's 86-year-old mother. 

Also, from the controls in his apartment, several books were found, including the biographies of Hitler and Putin.


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