Matteo Messina Denaro was only caught in January. He once claimed to have murdered enough people to fill a cemetery.
Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was arrested in January after spending 30 years on the run, has died.As his condition worsened he was transferred to a hospital from the maximum-security prison in central Italy where he was initially held.
Top Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, centre, lsoon after his arrest at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily on January 16.He was convicted of numerous crimes, including for his role in planning the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino – crimes that shocked the country and sparked a crackdown on the Sicilian mob.
According to medical records leaked to the Italian media, he underwent surgery for colon cancer in 2020 and 2022 under a false name. A doctor at the Palermo clinic toldnewspaper that Denaro’s health had worsened significantly in the months leading up to his capture. Nicknamed “’U Siccu” , Denaro became his protégé and showed he could be just as pitiless as his master, picking up 20 life prison terms in trials held in absentia for his role in an array of mob murders.He went into hiding in 1993 as a growing number of turncoats started providing details of his role in the mob, but investigators believe he rarely wandered far from Sicily.
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